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Back in October, I mentioned here that Chile had just established October 31 as a national holiday celebrating the Reformation. I asked for folks to write in if they had more information. I received emails from a number of readers, but the fullest explanation came from Cristian Moran in Chile. Here...

Though it's an American holiday, there is something to being reminded to be thankful. Here are some reasons from Psalm 111. ESV, of course. 1 Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 2 Great are the works of the Lord ,...

And one more book from my friends at Crossway (referencing back to my ETS books post). I picked up J I Packer's Affirming the Apostle's Creed, which is taken from his Growing in Christ. Crossway has also published Praying the Lord's Prayer and Keeping the Ten Commandments, taken from Growing in...

This past week I was up in Rhode Island at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. In between attending a few great papers and bumping into people, I also had a chance to pick up a few books. Here's the complete list of what I came home with. Fortunately, some of these books...

A couple of interesting news items have arrived on the desk of Trotter News International, the world's premier non-Murdoch-owned news outlet, courtesy of Britain's Daily Torygraph . First, brother Del looks set to make a financial killing in the sale of his automobile here . No need for the...

This past week, I received a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of John Stott's widely acclaimed best-seller, Basic Christianity. I first read this book in December 1971 as a thoroughly agnostic non-church-going freshman at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. I was reading Karl Popper at the...

Read it here . This should be pretty unsettling for anti-institutional pomo types. But I'd really love to know what our resident Marxist Historian thinks about the "Hunter Thesis."

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Further to my entry below, Steve Nichols appears on www.harvest-tv.com talking about his new book on blues music. He appears for about ten minutes or so about 20 minutes into the show. If you want see as well as hear him, this might be the place for you to go.

While preaching recently on the twelve apostles, I focussed on John's statement about Thomas: 'Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came'. John, of course, does not tell us why Thomas was missing, but his despondent, melancholy frame of mind was not helped by...