He was also brutally hard on the morality of his day, having a particular obsession with preaching against ‘sodomy’ – in Renaissance Italy a term which covered all illicit sexual contact between males. Has anyone ever failed to grow a congregation by talking sex from the pulpit? The Frate certainly understood this. He built a... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: The book reviewed in this story has stories from two Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission chaplains, John Routzhan, PCA Army chaplain and ARP Chris Reeder, ARP USAF Chaplain) John Groth makes a clear distinction between the remains of members of our Armed Forces and their bodies. You could have heard a pin drop... Continue Reading

He was never really able to transcend the class divide in the parish of All Souls, Langham Place… Much as the Anglican Church in the sixties was clearly a theological disaster, he could never leave her – and one suspects his reasons were not simply because she was ‘the best boat to fish from’ (sic)... Continue Reading

The reliability of the biblical account in Genesis may be questioned, they think, but not the latest findings of science. It is the unquestioned authority in the modern world. However, science is an evolving social activity in which the participants are fallible people. Hence, there are no absolutely objective facts with science. The assumption that... Continue Reading

He writes, “by jure divino we mean that the fundamental principles of Apostolic church government have been retained, and are legitimately applied in the circumstances and under the conditions which are peculiar to our own age and country Here is a book every ruling and teaching elder will want to have. I must confess as... Continue Reading

He is quoted in a recent Christianity Today article on “The Search for the Historical Adam” in the following way: “‘If genetics eventually forces reconsideration,’ Collins remarks, ‘he could perhaps reconceive of Adam and Eve as ‘the king and queen of a larger population’ and thereby preserve Genesis’ historicity.'” A Review of C. John Collins,... Continue Reading

In part one, Dr. Enns makes three main points. First, the majority of the Old Testament was written after the Babylonian exile. Second, Genesis and the rest of the Pentateuch were not written as history, but instead as a polemic against the surrounding cultures in an act of self-definition by the postexilic Israelites. Third, the... Continue Reading

We have leaders with a lot of swagger and `street cred’; Lloyd-Jones had gravitas and did not care to be cool…We have leaders whose politeness too often creates an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty; Lloyd-Jones spoke on doctrinal issues with unerring clarity…And, for the record, I would take five minutes of his serious gospel exposition... Continue Reading

“How then do we finish well?” Just as we started the race, by grace. From that foundation, one is to have a Christ-centered life and a focused life. “…those who end well have disciplined lives.” Review of: Sweeting, Donald W. and George Sweeting. How to Finish the Christian Life. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2012. 204 pages.... Continue Reading

…this type of hybrid “Adam,” clearly driven by the need to account for an evolutionary model, is not the Adam of the biblical authors. Ironically, the desire to protect the Adam of scripture leads Collins (and others) to create an Adam that hardly preserves the biblical portrait. Evolution and a historical Adam cannot be merged... Continue Reading