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Over the past few years, I have witnessed the fall of several colleagues, some of which have had catastrophic consequences, two of whom are still serving prison sentences. In most cases, I never saw it coming. It occurs to me as I have reflected on this over the past few days that each one has had...

Excellent thoughts, brothers. Even though many of us didn't look to Ted Haggard as our of our leaders or influencers, it is still an incredibly sad and shameful situation. "If one member suffers, all suffer together" (1 Cor. 12:26). I'd like to commend Tim Challies' post on the scandal. I thought...

It seems to me that the blogosphere reaction to the Ted Haggard scandal is breaking two ways. On one side are those who utterly denounce the man and see in him a glaring example of everything wrong in popular evangelicalism today. On the other side are those who want to stress that we are all...

While driving to and from a presbytery meeting tonight, I listened to Scot McKnight's address on the Emerging Church Movement from Westminster Theological Seminary's Emerging Church Forum . I highly recommend the address as a friendly introduction to the topic. Here are some of my reflections:

In the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, Crossway Books has granted permission for us to post an early version of C. J. Mahaney's message to pastors, forthcoming as a chapter in the T4G book, Preaching the Cross , ed. Mark Dever. So for a limited time, C.J.'s Watch Your Life and Doctrine address is...

I think I'm going to sue Jeremy for defamation in his latest article on Ref21 where I think I see myself pilloried. I may have a 32 inch waist, and he flatters me by saying I'm even an average preacher, but a half-marathon is no challenge -- barely a sweat breaker. No wonder the church here is in...

Last week a New Jersey fisherman found a plastic bag full of letters in the surf off Atlantic City. There were about 300 letters in the bag -- some dating back to the early 1970's -- all addressed to the Reverend Grady Cooper, now deceased. Many of the letters asked for prayer, and perhaps the most...

I've been pondering again what is always a somewhat thorny issue: was Jesus able to sin or was he not able to sin? It arose again yesterday in a Patristics class in which we were examining the early work of Athanasius, de incarnatione. It is a question that is related to whether Jesus assumed a "...

My friend and colleague Bob Brady just pointed me to this post by our mutual friend Tom Ascol. It points back to this good article at ref21 by our intrepid editor. Edifying stuff. Read and learn and be encouraged.

Westminster Seminary's K. Scott Oliphint has just published a book with the very promising title Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology . Bill Edgar writes: "This is a wonderful book. If given the attention it deserves, Reasons for Faith should change the discussion in matters...