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I'm on camp this week, speaking every morning from Daniel, and a couple of seminars on Revelation. It's slightly different as a camp because all the kids are from one church; St Nicholas' Sevenoaks. It's hardly a gathering of the working class but it's good for them to occasionally get someone in...

I was grateful to be offered an early glimpse of David Murray's latest book, Jesus On Every Page (Thomas Nelson, 2013) (see below for a giveaway and special launch offer). It did not disappoint. Imagine, if you will, an art gallery devoted to portraits of one particular person by one particular...

Charles Spurgeon was not the only man of God to be labouring during the heyday of the gospel's progress in Victorian London. On the other side of the river lived and worked that most excellent servant of Christ, Archibald Geikie Brown. He is the subject of Iain H. Murray's fairly recent biography,...

A couple of people have emailed me to tell me that both the monographs I cited in my previous post are online Old Testament Covenant Theology The Revelation of the Divine Name in Scripture David Gibson also assures me that Alec Motyer's article ' "Stricken for the Transgression of My People": The...

'Stop all the clocks, keep the dog from barking with a juicy bone'.... I'm not kidding you, Alec Motyer has done what I thought was impossible; a guilt free book on preaching. In a summer that has seen two books come out of Australia on how to make your sermons interesting ( struggling with...

I've spent the last 3 Sundays going to church with my family and sitting with them. I want to recommend it to those of us who are preachers. There are men who can't handle sitting in the congregation they have to preach. You know the lines: 'this is what I'm called to'; 'I'm a preacher that is what...

Three great weeks in Northern Ireland, where even the friendliest greeting in the street can sound aggressive because of the sheer volume most men speak at. It's a wonderful place, full of beautiful scenery, fried breakfasts with absurd amounts of different breads and in-laws who will babysit...

I have been somewhat relieved to discover the reason for a slight slowdown in my recent output. It is not that I have been busy in the church, or that I have taken a holiday with my family, or that I have been investing in other time-sensitive commitments, or that blogging is not my first priority...

I'm back from holiday tomorrow but couldn't leave Northern Ireland without sharing some snaps of Carl reading the Chronicles of Narnia in the park that he alluded to here , Carl arrives He's done it The elders of Cornerstone slightly relieved they'd got through the week Carl taking it too far last...

My dear friend Pastor James La Belle e-mailed me letting me know that the Presbyterian Church of Cape Cod is once again hosting its annual Cape Cod Reformed Conference (Nov 8-10, 2013). The keynote speaker this year is well-known author and speaker Jerry Bridges, who will be bringing several...