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Our friend Mike Milton (now president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina) has just published a book called Small Things, Big Things: Inspiring Stories of Everyday Grace (P&R). Dr. Milton has a keen eye for seeing God at work in daily life. Readers will benefit from...

A passage from this morning's devotions struck home as a verse for the American church, which today seems so prone to be fearful of various politicians and political movements, and of forces are conspiring against the church. The prophet Isaiah reminds us to fear God alone, and to be careful of...

"From self-conceit and vanity and boasting, from delight in supposed success and superiority, raise us to the modesty and humility of true sense and taste and reality; and from all the harms and hindrances of offensive manners and self-assertion; Save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord...

My colleague David Robertson has updated and re-published an article reflecting on cross-cultural mission. That is a nice way of saying that he has a lot of criticism of (some) American mission work in Scotland. The points he raises are incisive and helpful, and can be applied to any mission work...

"The whole incarnation, with all that pertains to it, is one great sacrament of redemption" (Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology , p88). Discuss.

I recently heard that Pilgrim Radio will be broadcasting Christ the Center on FM radio. Pilgrim Radio airs 24 hours a day in 5 States . They broadcast The Al Mohler Program , as well as R.C. Sproul, John Piper, and Alistair Begg. Christ the Center is the weekly podcast of the Reformed Forum . The...

some basic rule's of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to: 26 Golden Rules for Writing Well 1.Don't abbrev. 2.Check to see if you any words out. 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 4.About sentence fragments. 5.When dangling, don't use participles. 6.Don't use no...

After a brief hiatus -- okay, it has been eight months -- I return to Dr. Ridding's litany for pastors: "From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and disappointment, from over-burdened sense of unworthiness, from morbid fancies of imaginary back-slidings, raise us to a...

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So now what do we do without a Calvin birthday conference? I did think of one anniversary we could celebrate. This is, after all the 400 th birthday of the Remonstrance. Think about it. Without those five points of the Remonstrance, we would have had no Dort, and no, centuries later, reduction of...