
AN ADMIRABLE WITNESS: KEN ELLIOTT
THE RELEASE OF KEN ELLIOTT In January 2016 Dr Kenneth Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were kidnapped by al-Qa’ida type jihadists in Burkina Faso in Africa. Three weeks later, […]
Reformed Thought for Christian Living
THE RELEASE OF KEN ELLIOTT In January 2016 Dr Kenneth Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were kidnapped by al-Qa’ida type jihadists in Burkina Faso in Africa. Three weeks later, […]
MEDIA MANIPULATION The King James Version of the Bible in Mark 2:4 says that the people could not get near (or ‘come nigh to’) Jesus because of ‘the press’, […]
Review of D. J. Palmer, India Where the Master has Sent Me: Julius Frederick Ullmann, Missionary, Stanhope Gardens: Eider Books, 2022. Julius Frederick Ullmann was born in Berlin in Prussia […]
Review of Jonathan Moorhead, The Trial of the 16th Century: Calvin and Servetus, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2021 People who know little about Calvin often know marginally more about the burning […]
THREE PROBLEMS RESOLVED Calvin begins his Institutes of the Christian Religion with the comment that ‘Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, […]
HOW TO GIVE OURSELVES WITHOUT PREACHING OURSELVES Ministering the gospel in a godly way is not just difficult but impossible. To the Thessalonian Christians, Paul spoke of himself as […]
The Pastor’s Life: Practical Wisdom from the Puritans, Matthew D. Haste and Shane W. Parker, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2019. In fourteen short chapters, Haste and Parker deal with different aspects […]
Australian Presbyterian World Mission (APWM) is starting to receive enquiries from people who would like to donate to the crisis in Turkey & Syria following the devastating earthquake. We suggest […]
CHRIST DIVIDES It is a startling and counter-intuitive thought that Christ Jesus came into the world to usher in hostility and trouble and controversy. Surely we have enough of […]
Review of William Edgar, R. Kent Hughes, and Alfred Poirier, The Pastor and the Modern World, Pennsylvania: Westminster Seminary Press, 2022. This short work actually consists of three addresses […]
Review of Gen Scrivener, The Air We Breathe, UK: The Good Book Company, 2022. Glen Scrivener has almost tried to Christianise Tom Holland’s Dominion, and in doing so avoids […]
As a pastor, I always found preaching at Christmas more difficult than I perhaps should have. Most of the preachable material comes from just four chapters: Matthew 1-2 and Luke […]
NEARLY THE LAST WORD As the Vandals threatened Hippo in 430, Augustine – who was close to the end of his own life – confessed to his congregation: ‘I […]
Review of Simonetta Carr, Church History, Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. Simonetta Carr has written a beautifully produced history of the Church. There are illustrations, time lines, things […]
FEASTING OR STARVING Often we find that works on history manage to incorporate the word ‘crisis’ into their titles. One does not have to read many such books before […]