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There are few things that get the Levy blood boiling like weekends away. I live on the outskirts of London. It's glorious suburbia with a bit of an edge - but not much. Lots of people in our church who work in the centre of town have about an hour on the tube into work each day. That's great...

I spent Monday this week back in Wales at a ministers' conference. It's something that my more famous brother runs. It's entitled the Eccentrics Conference (partly to mock the slightly pompous Eclectics Conference that used to take place). It's really a gathering of old friends who are now in the...

Kindle (or Ipad) users will be interested to see that Amazon have now released an e-version of Carl Trueman's "The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" (Moody) here for a buck and a half. Who said Carl wasn't cheap?

By now most of our readers will have heard that our own fellow-blogger here at Ref21, Laim Goligher, has received and accepted a call to the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church. As part of the extended Tenth community, I am simply delighted and grateful to God for this outstanding choice...

After going months without seeing Carl Trueman, I get to see him two times this month. Last Sunday he preached at my home church (Thanks for the sermon, Carl.) and in a bit he and I will be joining in with R C Sproul for a conference in Florida . Since I spent a few hours shoveling snow this...

Stuck in snow and ice in South Carolina, I've been ruminating Paul's New Year missive about the Brits in America, with its sordid plot line of filthy lucre and their collective misguided, duplicitous claims of divine guidance when, if truth be told, it's all about the gold. His accusations are not...

Paul missed the two key tracks on Trueman's iPod before his move: `If I Were a Rich Man' by Topol, and `Sailing to Philadelphia' (the reference to Knopfler last week surely being a Freudian slip). Of course, rumour has it that T was also persuaded that his future lay elsewhere because of Paul's...

The last time Carl stayed here I was looking through his ipod and saw on his favourites..... Money for nothing - Dire Straits Money Money Money - Abba Money can't buy me love - Beatles Opportunities (let's make lots of money) - Pet Shop Boys I don't know whether that tells you anything but I would...

Alistair Begg, Sinclair Ferguson, Derek Thomas, Jerram Barrs, Carl Trueman, Paul Gardner, Mark Johnston, Bill Hughes, Josh Moody and now Liam Goligher. The list could go on....... On the 5th January 1989 the South Wales Evening Post arrived in the afternoon. I picked it up as a 12 year old boy and...

Christmas Day and Boxing Day sermons to preach and another Christmas is done. This will be my eighth at IPC and I'm officially out of jokes and illustrations. The tank is empty, the screen is blank, there's no juice left in the legs. As I've said previously we get more outsiders in at this time of...