The Pernicious Lie that Scripture Needs the Church’s Authority
Sometimes you come across lies so dangerous and pernicious that an explanation is required to prevent damage to the church and an undermining in confidence in God’s word. This past […]
Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition?
One hears a number of recent stories of Protestants jumping ship to either Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. I don’t know the statistics, but I do hear anecdotally that this […]
Female Elders, the ‘Westminster Model’, and the Question of History
As the NSW Presbyterian Church nears the time of making a decision about female elders, some have been exposed to the contents of a paper that was proposed to the […]
The Dangers of National Repentance
The Dangers of National Repentance I recently read an essay by C.S. Lewis, “Dangers of National Repentance”, which seems as timely today as ever. He notes that “the first and […]
Fear is Negative but not all Bad
FEAR IS “NEGATIVE” BUT NOT ALL BAD Something I often find that trips up Christians, even those who have been Christians for years, is the idea that Christianity is supposed […]
Soft Hearts and Hard Heads
The Theology of the Church – Discipline Calls for Soft Hearts and Hard Heads The Reformation taught that there were three marks of the Church: the pure preaching of the […]
Book Review: ‘Revival and Revivalism’
Iain H. Murray, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994 Rarely does a study of history not only inform the mind […]
Book review: ‘Evangelicalism Divided’
Review of Iain H. Murray, Evangelicalism Divided, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982 This is a book I heard recommended by Mark Dever at a Banner of Truth conference at the […]
Sacraments and the Visible Church
The Theology of the Church – Sacraments and the Visible Church In an earlier article I wrote about the useful theological distinction of the visible and invisible church (WCF 25) […]
Rendering to Caesar What is God’s
Rendering to Caesar What is God’s: The 2024 NSW Presbyterian Assembly In 2024 the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales felt obliged to respond to state […]
The Visible and Invisible Church
The Visible and Invisible Church We sadly live in a day and age where there is much confusion about what the Bible teaches about the Church. This includes who and […]
Book review: Patient Ferment, part 2
Part 2 of 2 of Review of Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016 In this second part of a 2-part review, having recorded […]
Book Review: Patient Ferment of the Early Church
Part 1 of 2 of Review of Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016 This work of Alan Kreider’s has been without doubt one […]
Book Review: The Creedal Imperative
Review of Carl Trueman, The Creedal Imperative, Wheaton: Crossway, 2012 The Creedal Imperative appeared on several recommended reading lists in my time at college, but given its title, I didn’t […]