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Some readers of ref21 may know that Derek Thomas, the Editorial Director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, who also serves at the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson and Minister of Teaching at the First Presbyterian...

Is Matthew 18:15-20 currently the most abused text in Scripture? A ministerial colleague recently called my attention to a fine piece by D. A. Carson in Themelios entitled "Editorial on Abusing Mathew 18" here . Carson makes at least two points that are of considerable importance in the current...

Richard Perkins (the urban pastor not the puritan) points us to this article from the Independent on Christians in finance and the place of workplace ministry. It's a fascinating piece on the pressure Christians face in work. Perks blog is worth checking out full of interesting stuff, he's caught a...

Our good friends at Christ the Center very kindly did some broadcasts from PCRT Philadelphia last weekend. Click here to listen to the crew discuss Biblical manhood and womanhood. A great addition to a great event!

Forget flexing your muscles! I had an email from the Banner of Truth to say that JC Ryle's expository thoughts on the gospels is going to be published in hardback with the type reset. It should be available later this year. Happy Days! They are also in the process of scanning the banner magazine...

Today I call on the readers of Reformation 21 to flex their online muscles. I am asking the Banner of Truth for two things; not that they republish ''Among the Soviet Evangelicals'', nor that they bring back the Scottish tourist board covers, not even that they invite Carl Trueman to speak at their...

After the services on Sunday I was asked two remarkable questions. The first one was having preached on Matthew 28:1-10 . What evidence do I have that Mary Magdalene was sad at the crucifixion, as there are no verses which seem to speak of her emotions at that point? Am I just not reading into the...

One of the things Christians are increasingly hearing from secular critics is that Christianity is not only wrong, but evil; it's false but also immoral. One of the best responses to this phenomena is a recent book by the guys over at Triablogue, entitled The Infidel Delusion . One thing the author...

This article from the BBC has a lot of common sense missing from Christian circles on forgiveness. There's also nonsense in the article about forgiving yourself and so forgiving others. It makes the wonder of the gospel even more stark that God ''will forgive their wickedness and remember their...

It's hardly Keats or TS ELliott but in going through an old Rutherford journal I found this. It's slightly dated as no one in their right mind would say lock a minister up with his computer today, this blog is proof positive of that. Fling him into his room, then tear the "Office" sign from the...