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From what we are able to glean from the sparse sources of the preaching of the Celtic missionaries, a general pattern emerges. They were energetic and selfless evangelists who sought nothing for themselves but to spend and be spent in serving the Saviour. Mungo effectively brought Christianity to...

Elsewhere in the blogosphere there has been considerable chatter about the issue of what it is to be 'missional' arising out of Kevin DeYoung's excellent seminar at the Desiring God conference. He defined the mission of the church in these terms: The mission of the church is to go into the world...

Now that B. B. Warfield's theology is back on the scene with Fred Zaspel's The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary (Crossway), I thought I'd point out a few comments by the Lion of Princeton in his Collected Works on the faithful and fearless John Calvin. What struck me this week was...

I've been doing some work on Communion with God and found these articles hidden away in the archive vaults of the OPC website. Craig Troxel is the minister of Bethel OPC , Wheaton and they are fantastic introductions. Communion with the Triune God Communion with the Father in love Communion with...

Here's a video of Carl and I boxing which was taken a few years back. Carl has shed a few pounds since then, though he's not grown much. Admittedly he is academically more gifted than I but I think you'll agree he was taught a real lesson in pugilism.

Today I've been working on a lecture I'm due to give in Cambridge next Monday commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Dairmid MacCulloch of Oxford University calls the Scottish Reformation the most successful of all the reformations of the period. It was driven primarily by...

I climbed into the cab the other day only to discover the driver (whose name sounded like snotter or rotter) is a bit of a Ref21 aficiendo. The traffic was thundering in London so it difficult to catch every word but he was commenting how he had noticed a broader perspective in the blog in recent...

The idea for a Mother Levy Festschrift could certainly have some mileage. Here's a few more essay suggestions: Carl R. Trueman `New Cardinal Newman or George W. Bush Redivivus ? Critical Reflections on the Development of Paul Levy's Prose Style' Martin Downes `The Heresy of Heretics who Hold to...

I see from Liam's blog that John Piper has just had a volume of essays published in his honour. No doubt it's thoroughly deserved and scripture tells us to honour our leaders but I wonder 'of the making of festschrifts is there no end'. This week also sees another volume launched this time in...

Before Dr. Thomas and I begin our excursion into the often-imitated-never-duplicated world of Carl Trueman, I came across this passage in Dr. Paul Tripp's chapter for the upcoming Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology book (due out by this year's PCRT!). In applying 1 Peter 1:3-9, which...