
BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
Christians live between life here on earth and the life to come. Sometimes life here seems rather mundane – we are washing dishes, picking up the washing, taking out the […]
Reformed Thought for Christian Living
Christians live between life here on earth and the life to come. Sometimes life here seems rather mundane – we are washing dishes, picking up the washing, taking out the […]
Review of John Newton’s Diary, 1766, edited by Marylynn Rouse for the John Newton Project, 2021. This is Newton’s diary for 1766, under the theme of ‘developing a pastoral ministry’. There […]
At Thessalonica, Paul and the early Christian evangelists were accused of being men who had ‘turned the world upside down’ (Acts 17:6). Actually, they were trying to turn it right-side […]
At first glance, resurrection and persecution may not seem to be related, unless linked by martyrdom. After all, Richard Dawkins has claimed that religion was invented as a ‘comfort-blanket’ to […]
The next candidate to be a judge on the US Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was recently asked for her definition of a woman. She replied that she could not […]
Lindsey Tollefson has produced a set of reflections on 44 Psalms, all to do with the trials which we face in life. The result is worthwhile, although the result is […]
There is nothing like a breath of fresh air after a bout of mask-wearing or a lockdown, and the same is true in looking at life, and the claims of […]
If anyone has exposed the human condition more incisively and pungently than Blaise Pascal, I have yet to read him or her. At present we live with the drums of […]
Apparently Edgar Stubbersfield is an expert in timber structures, which seems an unusual qualification to write an Old Testament commentary. Then again, Ben Chifley was an engine driver, and became […]
God moves in a mysterious way,/ His wonders to perform. So begins one of the finest hymns in the English language. It was penned by one of the most depressed men […]
Sin has a way of undoing itself. Jacques Mallet du Pan was a Huguenot who saw the folly of the French Revolution, and in 1793 made the acute and oft-repeated […]
Commenting on celebrities and social events has its hazardous side. We are warned that even a fool can be considered wise if he keeps silent (Prov.17:28). The death of Archbishop […]
Some of the frogs in the marsh came to think that they needed someone to lead them. It is true that they already had a parliament of owls, but, although […]
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia from 1939-1941 and again from 1949-1966. He often referred to himself as ‘a simple Presbyterian’, and in 1916 he was president […]
It is common in the modern West to portray Marxism as a progressive force, while Christianity is the backward enemy of humanity. Yet in its wildest dreams, the Spanish Inquisition […]
There are those who thought that Statler and Waldorf were the funniest part of The Muppet Show. Whether a jaundiced bleat from the bleachers always gets it right is another issue, […]