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Last week I picked up Andrew McGowan's latest book, The Person and Work of Christ: Understanding Jesus (Paternoster, 2012). I devoured it over two days, and reckon it is one of the most important books to have emerged this year. Published as part of the 'Christian Doctrines in Historical...

I take Jeremy's points in his post and wholeheartedly agree with them. I would want to add a counterpoint though. I do think one of the dangers we face as young men (I'm 35 and hanging in there) is often preaching out of the pulpit. What I mean by that is we adopt the speech and attitude of men of...

The last few weeks have been somewhat frantic, hence my lack of blogging output. As you can imagine the Ref 21 inbox is going crazy, 'Where is Levy?' they ask. It's one of the most popular requests behind 'Where can we get more of Walker's hymns?'and 'In which century did Jeremy Walker minister?'...

A quick note: Lee Gatiss has edited George Whitefield's Sermons in two volumes for Crossway. The two hardbound volumes are available from Amazon for £37.79 at the moment, but the whole shebang is available in a Kindle edition for only £10.52 . No idea how long this offer will last so bag it quickly...

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts...

In Col 3:10, the apostle Paul describes one of the most stunning aspects of the Spirit's re-creative work in uniting us by faith to the risen Christ. In that verse, we read that the natural man is, by that Spirit, suddenly and irrevocably "renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him...

This is one for high achievers who've won gold and then find there's nowhere to go . I remember talking with Carl after T4G and him recounting the same........ CRT - '' Levy, I've been on stage with the big four, done a seminar, admittedly it wasn't a keynote but it's bigger than you'll ever get, I...

My good friend Rich Barcellos has posted this excellent article on the Reformed Baptist Fellowship blog; check it out if you are interested: http://reformedbaptistfellowship.org/2012/09/07/typical-objections-to-the-ten-commandments-and-christians/

The Scottish preacher and theologian Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon on "The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of gospel," declared: How little must the presence of God be felt in that place, where the high functions of the pulpit are degraded into a stipulated exchange of...

There are tired sermon illustrations which we've all heard before and then there's General Sedgewick! 3 times in 2011 we had guest preachers who began their sermons with his famous last words. The story goes if you don't know it but I'm sure you do, that General Sedgewick who was a general in the...