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Over the next few weeks I've got a number of outside speaking engagements. I try to bunch them together in one or two week blocks a couple of times a year. I always feel slightly uncomfortable when it comes to being paid. I have a good friend who recently spoke at a large conference (not the one...

First off, I must apologise for my absence since last July, due to personal circumstances which are only now easing and allowing me back into my routine. Well done to the other contributors....you seem to have done well enough without me. I have just been attending the closing ceremony of the...

In about an hour and some, it will be official. He will now be Dr. Keith Getty as he is receiving an honorary doctorate from my humble institution, Lancaster Bible College, at our commencement today at 2:00. This is one commencement speaker who will be sure to hold our interest. Rumor has it that...

I'm reading God so loved, he gave by Kelly Kapic which I'll write something on later but found this incredible quote from Melito of Sardis who I am sure you are all familiar with. ''Asking his congregation who it was that died on the cross? ''Who was it? It is a heavy thing to say, and a most...

Despite the very brief cameo in the T4G video, Piper not only played but actually carried our team on his offensive shoulders. In the end, we took a beating, but our scrappy little guard gave a valiant effort with an otherwise lackluster supporting cast (self included). And, though well-known for...

In response to Levy, I can only comment that basketball is not a sport. By definition, something cannot be a sport if (a) every time you get the ball you score and (b) it is played by Mark Dever.

I don't want to bring up the whole celebrity conference speaker turf war again but my attention was drawn to the latest T4G conference video (the conference itself looks very good indeed). It's a basketball game of the various speakers, Ligon Duncan running around is a sight to behold but according...

Adrian Reynolds points us to the Rich book and my good friend David Gibson now tells me that the Rich brand is extending to a course that can be accessed here . Hopefully we'll get videos and t shirts, even mugs of the Rich course in the future. In all seriousness the course does look quite good...

J. Graham Miller was a minister, missionary and Theological College principal. A New Zealander by birth, he lived in Australia and the New Hebrides. The Banner of Truth have published his autobiography, 'A day's march nearer home' which is a lovely read. It has been published after his death and so...

Some readers of ref21 may know that Derek Thomas, the Editorial Director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, who also serves at the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson and Minister of Teaching at the First Presbyterian...