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Pastors in the Classics: Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature Leland Ryken, Philip Ryken & Todd Wilson Baker Books , 2012, 192pp., paperback, $16.99 ISBN 978-0-8010-7197-3 This is an odd book. It is not a bad book, but it is hard to categorise. Divided into two parts, the...

St Helen's Bishopsgate have produced a series of short videos on Science and the Christian named 'Science - A personal view' . Various scientists from their congregation address common questions and misconceptions outsiders have regarding the gospel. This is an excellent resource and just the sort...

Colin Buchan a n is, to my son and c ountless other kids like him, the equivalent of what John Piper is to Christian hedonists, Gresham Machen is to the OPC and John Stott is to English public schoolboys. The kid absolutely loves him. I have friends up in Aberdeen who took their son to one of Colin...

I've been in blogging rehab the last few weeks and so have turned my attention to Twitter, that other marvellous form of modern communication. We set up a church account to give out announcements and so far it's been a rip roaring success with 15 followers most of whom don't go to the church...

When the New Testament deals with sexual morality, it does so unfailing clarity and reassuring discretion. Take, as an example, the instruction of the apostle in 1 Thessalonians 4: Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you...

The Public Ministry of Christ William G. Blaikie This volume , first published in 1883, bridges the disciplines of Christology and pastoral theology, and its author will need no commendation to those who value Scriptural studies that blend scholarship and devotion. Blaikie's contention, argued in...

Scott Clarke has spent a fair amount of time in the Blogging Doghouse as have I, but welcome back to the man with this cracker on 'What pastors shouldn't tell their wives' .

A last snippet, for now, from Thomas Foxcroft's The Gospel Ministry once more, fairly early on in his sermon, exhorting himself and other ministers to preach Jesus in every sense: Ministers then must study to feed their flocks with a continual feast on the glorious fullness there is in Christ; they...

Since Trueman's assent to stardom as Augustine redivivus , the requests for copies of the debate have almost crashed our server. Ok, so maybe that's a bit of an embellishment, but either way you can watch the debate here: Part 1: https://vimeo.com/57071226 Part 2: https://vimeo.com/57377467

In the light of Carl's post Adam and Eve and Pinch Me , you might want to listen to the Audio from the recent John Owen Centre Conference on 'Adam: in the bible, in the church and in the world'. Michael Mclenahan and Garry Williams' talks are both excellent and I'm assured the rest of the lectures...