The Lazy Pastor

Charles Wingard
Nov 18, 2019
At the outset of a difficult topic – pastoral laziness – I want to be clear that my purpose is to encourage both pastors and their congregations. Where conflict arises over the minister’s work ethic, I believe most of the time there is a path forward to strengthen the bonds of affection that should...

Reformed Ethics Could Save Your Life

Joel Heflin
Nov 4, 2019
Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Ethics Could Save Your Life Reformed Ethics: Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity (Vol. 1), John Bolt, ed. et al. Baker Academic, 2019. HC, 608 pp. I was preparing a student paper on Bavinck for ETS when the economy collapsed in 2009. Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics proved...

Meredith Kline on Genesis

Andrew Compton
Mar 12, 2018
Meredith G. Kline. Genesis: A New Commentary . Edited by Jonathan G. Kline. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2016. Pp. xx +154. $19.95 (paper). Nearly ten years after Meredith G. Kline entered into glory, readers are in possession of a new book: a short commentary on the book of Genesis. In the...

Book Review: God Is (Crossway)

Ryan McGraw
Feb 20, 2018
Mark Jones, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017). 240pp. Hardcover. $19.99. M any theologians have complained recently that Reformed theology has stressed the divine attributes to the neglect of divine triunity. Whether such an assessment of classic...

Union and Communion (5)

Patrick Ramsey
Jun 27, 2017
O ne of the great benefits of reading the Puritans is that they open our eyes to how wonderfully useful and practical doctrine is. "Theology," William Ames famously wrote, "is the doctrine of living unto God." The doctrine of union and communion with Christ is certainly no exception to this. In...

John Bunyan: Is it Good to Fear Hell?

Bob McKelvey
Apr 27, 2017
Around the time God converted me at the age of 21, I remember embracing the reality of hell. It terrified me right into the arms of Jesus Christ. I truly sensed fleeing from the wrath to come. So, the first time I read A Treatise of the Fear of God (1679) by John Bunyan (1628-1688), I latched on to...

Book Giveaway: Word and Spirit by Peter Adam

Jul 29, 2016
Thanks to our friends at The Latimer Trust, we have two (2) copies of Peter Adam's, Word and Spirit: The Puritan-Quaker Debate . The deadline is Friday, August 12. Sign up here .

Meet a Puritan: Joseph Alleine

Feb 8, 2016
Joseph Alleine (1634-1668) Life Born at Devizes, Wiltshire, Joseph Alleine loved and served the Lord from childhood. A contemporary identified 1645 as the year of Alleine’s “setting forth in the Christian race.” From eleven years of age onward, “the whole course of his youth was an even-spun thread...

Covenant Confusion

Richard Phillips
Jun 17, 2015
Thus says the Lord, "Stand by the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16 There is a fine line between the use and the overuse of a word. The same is true with public figures. When someone is getting...

A Baptist Praises the Lord for the PCA

Thabiti Anyabwile
Apr 10, 2008
Recently, I read a lamentable statement from the leader of African-American pastors inside the PCUSA. It was lamentable because it made the gospel and the spiritual mission of the church secondary to social and political concerns. This morning I came across this video of African American pastors...