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I am just back from one of Carl Trueman's haunts: tell it not in Gath, but I slept in his bed! I refer to a trip to Canada for Sola Scriptura Ministries , and my good friend Heinz D. Now, I'd tell you his second name, but it is impossible to spell from memory! I stayed in a wonderful home (shades...

I am just back in Philadelphia this morning from an overnight trip to Florida, where I participated in the ordination service for a friend from Tenth (Andrew DiNardo) who now serves with Rick Phillips at First Presbyterian Church in Coral Springs/Margate. It was encouraging to hear by every account...

Another principle for racial reconciliation in the church from Dolphus Weary: "We must develop safe environments for reconciliation to be pursued. Strong relationships can be forged through honest dialogue. Without efforts to reach a shared mutual understanding of one another, efforts to achieve...

Anyone wanting to read a brief, but brilliant rebuttal of Bart Ehrman's latest attack on the Bible's textual trustworthiness, Misquoting Jesus , should read Robert Gundry's "Post-Mortem: Death by Hardening of the Categories" In the September/October edition of Books and Culture . He begins by...

Kelly Kapic informs me that several updated editions of works by John Owen are due for publication in the next year.Due in October (by Crossway) are three classic treatises on sin and temptation: Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works (edited by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor). Due in...

As Phil has noted, we enjoyed a particularly satisfying ordination service this past Sunday evening at our church, as the Rev. Andrew DiNardo was entered into the gospel ministry as a teaching elder in the PCA. It is always fun to see Phil (although we actually see each other a fair amount during...

My beloved Boston Red Sox have been officially out of the major league baseball playoffs for a few days, but actually out of it for over a month. This has been a real bummer to my son, Matthew, and me. We are especially bummed since our favorite dirtdog of a player, Trot Nixon, is sure to leave the...

A fifth and final principle from Dolphus Weary: "We must maintain a 'Big Kingdom' perspective. Reconciled relationships can occur when each individual believes and perceives that he or she is an equal partner and in need of the other. Each church and denomination must avoid the temptation of seeing...

When possible (I am often hopelessly behind), I try to include the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society in my regular reading. A week or two ago I quoted from Daniel Wallace's excellent piece in the June 2006 issue -- a review of Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus . Wallace makes a comment at...

The rules from C.S. Lewis are both compelling and challenging. It reminds of one of Dr. James Boice's maxims: speak from the Germanic and not the Latin side of the English vocabulary. He meant that preachers should cultivate plain and direct speech. The English language combines both Anglo-Saxon...