October 2010 Archives

We have a phenomenon in the UK in church evangelism which I think has only happened in the last number of years.  It's grown out of fine attempts to reach out to non Christians.  We are bombarded as I'm sure... continue

On the eve of another Reformation Sunday we find ourselves still fighting for that principle which Calvin called the "main hinge on which religion turns" and which Luther called the mark of a standing or falling church, namely the doctrine... continue

Fascinating day, partly because in the order of things, I had the day off. Carl Trueman gave a brilliant defense of Creeds and Confessions, so brilliant that it made the "no creed but the Bible" folk sound like the lunatic... continue

In the week when the Protestant church looks back to the advertising of a public debate by a professor, Martin Luther, at Wittenberg University on October 31, 1517, and celebrates that event as the start of the Reformation, Derek and... continue

Don Duff, of the OPC, has just brought to my attention this interesting article by an OP pastor in southern California.  Very helpful and thought provoking.... continue

Good to see that Paul is back from `the Algarve.'  Clearly the word has a become a euphemism for a short term of solitary confinement for those who have corrupted the nation's youth and committed crimes too numerous to mention... continue

I go away to the Algarve for a week of sunshine and tennis only to stumble back to Ref 21 and find that the whole thing has gone politics mad. Talk of the left and the right, Trueman trying to sell his new book on his... continue

Can we learn something of how to preach from the Epistle to the Hebrews?  We have heard that the first three rules for understanding a passage are "context, context, and context."  Strange, then, isn't it, that the author of Hebrews introduces almost... continue

It has been gratifying to see the largely generous and charitable reactions to Republocrat that have appeared on the web.  Even the critics have provided kind words and a few priceless one-liners, including the positively Trotterskyite opening line of the... continue

For those on Twitter, Lig has been posting quotes from the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.Go here:http://twitter.com/LigonDuncan... continue