Book Review: Ecclesiastes: Life in a Fallen World (Benjamin Shaw)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 This is a helpful work on that most intriguing work, the book of Ecclesiastes, although it is neither a commentary nor a series of sermons. […]
Book Review: Ever in Thy Sight (Abraham Kuyper)
Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2020 Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is known as a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, one who encouraged the growth of Christian schools, and who developed views on […]
Book Review: Preacher, Pastor and Evangelist (Edited by Gerard O’Brien)
Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 Ten essayists have put together this most engaging tribute to the preaching, pastoring, and evangelistic work of Simon Manchester, who served as the senior minister at […]
Evangelism: Wooing and Convicting
Once a person becomes a Christian, he or she naturally wants to pass the faith onto as many others as possible. After Andrew met Christ, he then found his brother […]
People and the Reformation
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 26 October 2020 October 31 is remembered in some places, not as a wretched Halloween Day, but as the date when, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed […]
Knowing Our Limitations
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 15 September 2020 If anyone is looking for suitable reading in lockdown – or in wild freedom, for that matter – Blaise Pascal’s Pensées is indeed food for the […]
Three Deaths: Socrates, Stephen, and Jesus
While reviewing some meditations on the cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I came across his summary that ‘Socrates overcame dying; Christ overcame death.’ It is one of those startling comments which […]
Paul: A Man Misunderstood
We are all prone to plead that we have been understood, but the apostle Paul was in reality a man much misunderstood. The word ‘nuanced’ can be a weasel word, […]
Book Review: en.courage.ment (Charles H. Spurgeon)
Pennsylvania: R. P. B. Northern Publishing Company, 2019 Many readers will know Spurgeon’s devotional work, Morning and Evening, from which these forty daily readings are taken. The language is more […]
Responding to Covid Restrictions: Church and State
John MacArthur and the elders at Grace Community Church have recently issued a clarion call declaring that Christ, not Caesar, is the Head of the Church, and that therefore the […]
Book Review: Psalms by the Day (Alec Motyer)
Fearn: Christian Focus, 2016 This volume is designed to take the reader through the whole Psalter in 73 days. Dr Motyer has provided his own translation, has added some analysis […]
Book Review: God and the Pandemic (N. T. Wright)
London: SPCK, 2020 Having just read a collection mainly of Puritan sermons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on Godly Directions in a Time of Plague (Crossville: Puritan Publications, 2020), […]
Creatures of Habit
We live as those who live not knowing what the next day will bring. We are also creatures of habit, and that works both ways. Once we have developed certain […]
Book Review: Exegetical Letters and Sermons on Hebrews (Charles Hodge)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 Those readers who have appreciated Charles Hodge’s commentaries on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians will welcome this shorter work on Hebrews. It is […]
Forgiveness in Three Images
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 July 2020 Christians always want to understand the world better than it understands itself in order that we can comment on it with light and […]
How to Deceive without Really Lying
Soon after falling into sin, Adam was confronted by the God whom he had offended: ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which […]