July 2008 Archives

Andy Naselli has done a nice job of pulling together some good quotes from Carl's Minority Report.... continue

I came across this gem while re-reading the biography of Principal John Macleod of the Free Church. Macleod was Professor of Greek in the Free Church College from 1906-13, minister of the Free North Church, Inverness, 1913-1929, and Professor of... continue

Thanks, Carl, for the link to the Wright-Neuhaus.  Despite, as you point out, the increasingly whiny stance of NTW's self-defense, you have to admit that he is pretty feisty.  My favorite, second to his insinuation that Neuhaus was projecting his... continue

I asked our good friend Alistair Begg what he was reading this summer:   1. "Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics" by Graeme Goldsworthy. This is Goldsworthy at his comprehensive best. A terrific help in not missing the wood for the trees in exegesis... continue

This good news out of Louisville today. Here's the full story. Denny is an outstanding young scholar (and, among many other things, edits the JBMW for CBMW). He blogs here.     The Towers Online (SBTS' news service) reports: Criswell... continue

Tullian Tchividjian passed along some info about the new documentary being developed around David Wells's book, The Courage to Be Protestant. The project is called The Church in the Matrix:The American Evangelical church met the culture....and the culture won. In... continue

From Jonathan Edwards, "God Glorified in the Work of Redemption," in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5:The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good... continue

Reading the excellent article on psalm singing below, I wanted to add just two more resources.  The Free Church of Scotland has an excellent edition of the Psalter, combing both the 1650 and the new Sing Psalms which should be... continue

`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.'  So goes a line from Mark Knopfler's `Ode to Sonny Liston.'  Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest  over at First Things: N... continue

I was alerted by Scott Clark's blog to a year-old article by Sally Morgenthaler in which she declares the worship-evangelism mega-church experiment, of which she was such a proponent, to be a failure.  After a generation of seeker-sensitive consumer-driven worship,... continue