December 2011 Archives

The Aquila Report, source of all world knowledge for confessional Presbyterians, has published its list of the top fifty stories which it ran this year.  At the head of the list is an entry from Anthony Bradley.  It is nearly... continue

It was forty years ago today (December 28, 1971) that I became a Christian. My conversion was Saul-like: sudden, unexpected, and decisive. I was eighteen, a freshman at university studying physics and math at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.   ... continue

The newest installment of the Vatican Files is an excellent piece on Paul's theology and Roman Catholicism. Click here to read!... continue

Has anything good come out of the Black Country?  Ok, it did provide us with Slade and some of the great heavy metal bands of the 70s, and Tolkien with the original for Mordor.  But has anything happened since then? ... continue

In light of my recent post on Ed Young's risible `sexperiment', a friend asked me this week about the current trend among some pastors for referring to sexual matters in graphic detail in books and sermons.  Having been rightly rebuked... continue

Jeremy Walker is doing a 3 piece on 'New Calvinism' part 1 - caveats and characteristicspart 2 - commendationspart 3 - critique (forthcoming)... continue

Last Sunday each of our slated morning and evening preachers had originally chosen the same text for his sermon--the song of Simeon in Luke 2. I know because I was the evening preacher. Now hearing two (hopefully) biblical sermons on... continue

Two new books have come out in the UK which do not seem as yet to be available in the USA.  One is edited by my old Aberdeen colleague, Brian Rosner, and is a collection of essays on the cross... continue

Click here for Trueman's latest optimistic take on all things relative to Christmas.... continue

What are Christians to make of the death of perhaps God's most outspoken critic? What is the Christian attitude to the death of the wicked? I must confess my first response was undignified, self-righteous and downright sinful. I could see... continue