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Like millions of Americans, I have become thoroughly addicted to Animal Planet's Meerkat Manor . If you haven't seen it, you are just missing out big time. Meerkat Manor chronicles the life and death exploits of the little meerkat species in the Kalahari Desert of Africa. Not only are these...

... the more I understand why I preach. While there are many good and important motivations for preaching Christ which I keenly feel -- the salvation of the lost, the edification of God's people, the building-up of the Church -- none of them are really why I preach. I preach because there was a man...

Interesting article in the British Independent . Of course, Protestantism has its own charlatans, from pedlars of prosperity doctrine to those who fly first-class round the world and stop at the best hotels to lecture the rest of us on -- ahem -- world poverty and exploitation; but we do try to...

New Testament scholar and Bible teacher Dan Doriani was here in Philadelphia this week for Westminster Seminary's annual preaching conference. Dr. Doriani, who serves as Senior Minister at Central Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, makes a major contribution to the Reformed Expository Commentary as...

The book Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution is finally available in the U.S. You can read John Piper's foreword and chapter 1 online. Westminster Bookstore is offering a special price of 40% off (until Nov. 2).

This week I received not one but two fresh new books on evangelism in the mail. One is by Rick Phillips: Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John . It is very attractively put together, by the folks at Reformation Trust Publishing. As the title suggests, the emphasis...

A potpourri of trivia and gems: first, a warning if you listen to Rick's advice to watch the meerkat saga! He should have told us of the emotional cost of investing sympathy for Mozart and her two sisters! In the space of 30 minutes all three had died! How was I to sleep after a sight of an...

Last night was the 8th annual Reformation Hymn Festival at Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It was a memorable evening of praise. Westminster Seminary California's President, Dr. Robert Godfrey, was the preacher. He made a simple but important point about the Protestant Reformation: the...

" Lord's day, April 18 --Retired early this morning into the woods for prayer; had the assistance of God's Spirit, and faith in exercise, and was enabled to plead with fervency for the advancement of Christ's kingdom in the world, and to intercede for dear absent friends. At noon, God enabled me to...