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Russell Moore on what Martin Luther might think about the situation of many of our evangelical churches today: Hardened rebels against God rest easy in a prayer said at Vacation Bible School, or a card signed at confirmation class. And guilty consciences stand paralyzed outside, fearful that Christ...

Christian Smith recently published "Souls in Transition," a study of the moral and spiritual lives of America's 18- to 24-olds, based on extended face-to-face interviews. The moral outlook of many young Americans--an ethic based on emotions rather than on reasoned principles--was encapsulated in...

Crossway have just published a brand new edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , edited by C. J. Lovik with superb (breathtaking) illustrations by Mike Wimmer. "If any smoothing of Bunyan's seventeenth century language plus new colored pictures can set Pilgrim's Progress aglow in the hearts of...

No, it's not about the WWE, though, I did stop by the corporate headquarters once last fall as I was driving along I95 on my way to a theology conference at Providence, RI--on the way back, I stopped by New Haven if that helps! The wrestling I have in mind is Genesis 32 . . . I find this to be a...

Jacob Arminius died 400 years ago today. Guy Davies takes a brief look at his life and theology. HT: David Reimer

One of the great blessings of moving to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has been gaining the friendship of Tony Merida, teaching pastor at Temple Baptist Church . As we've had lunch every other week or so since I got here in late June and as we've prayed together (through the "Dead Preachers" Society we'...

Probably not. But I ran across two great posts today from two friends--one by D. G. Hart, on the secular left's confused accounting of the "Religious Right" , and the other by Tim Keller, on why the nitty-gritty of pastoral leadership is vitally necessary to preach well . Great stuff.

From Samuel Rutherford (in The Loveliness of Christ [Banner of Truth, 2007], 4-5): I find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell, is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face...

From Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Eerdmans, 1977), 123-4: Although he wrote so many letters Simeon was very well aware how much better it was, if possible, to talk rather than write, especially when a 'delicate or much-controverted point' arose. With his usual sensitivity to the...

From Charles Simeon (in Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge [Eerdmans, 1977], 134): The longer I live, the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters. 1st To hear as little as possible what is to the prejudice of...