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We are fixing to take some time away for vacation after the PCA General Assembly. Beyond wandering around the mountains of Western North Carolina, one of the things to which I look forward is doing some summer reading. Here's what I put in my bag: James Davison Hunter, To Change the World (one of...

Ref21 readers may be interested to know that the The Christian's Reasonable Service (4 Vols) by Wilhelmus à Brakel is available for download in pdf format (terrific for the Ipad!) from the translator's (Bart Elshout) web page here . On the published volumes (Reformation Heritage Books), Joel Beeke...

We had an excellent meeting in Stornoway last night at which Ian Hamilton spoke on 'the spirit and practice of Sabbath keeping'. I'm not sure why the confessional position of the first day of the week being the Christian Sabbath is under such attack within contemporary evangelicalism; nor do I...

While I was preaching in Birmingham, England recently, a colleague passed on a little booklet of 32 pages by Christopher Ash entitled Listen Up!: A practical guide to listening to sermons . What a gem it is! While there are many resources available about preparing and delivering sermons, I know of...

Interesting article in the June 2010 Harvard Business Review . Prof. Uzma Khan and colleagues did a study in which they awarded a gift card to an electronics store to people who completed a word puzzle. Half the recipients earned the prize on their first try; half had tried to win it before but...

You may be interested in my review of Mark Driscoll's book on theology over at my blog here .

I have been re-reading - and using as the basis of our midweek Prayer Meeting studies at the moment - John Flavel's great work on 'Keeping the Heart'. His meditations on Proverbs 4:23 were originally published under the title of 'A Saint Indeed', and concern the most fundamental issue of the faith...

It appears that ref21 went "down" yesterday and a message appeared suggesting liquidation, expiration and general nastiness. Rumors that Trotter's blogs were the cause of it were only partially true. It does appear that the site was "hacked" (we were not alone; our parent host tells us that others...

It seems that my old sparring partner, CRT, has earned the ire of Scotland's Free Presbyterians who, while essentially agreeing with much of his analysis of the Lloyd-Jones/Packer split, offer these words of commentary in their April magazine on our colleague's prose style: Professor Trueman's...

Let Go and Let God: An Analysis of Keswick Theology , by Andy Naselli has just been pre-released by Logos Bible Software. Among its many endorsers are Justin Taylor and Carl Trueman (see below). More information on the volume is obtainable here . For years popular Christian teachers have been...