Book Review: In Their Own Words (David Calhoun)
Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 2018 David Calhoun had a wonderful idea in putting this book together, and the result is most encouraging and refreshing. In Acts 9 we read […]
Justice and Truth in the Public Square
It is fearful how often the condition of ancient Israel resembles that of the modern world. One example of this is found in Isaiah 59: ‘Justice is turned back, and […]
Three Points of Meditation Upon the Resurrection of Christ
The historian, Philip Schaff, is often cited regarding the resurrection of Christ: ‘Truly, Jesus Christ, the Christ of the Gospels, the Christ of history, the crucified and risen Christ, the […]
Book Review: That Hideous Strength: How the West Was Lost (Melvin Tinker)
Welwyn: Evangelical Press, 2018 Drawing on the title of a C. S. Lewis novel – which is itself derived from Sir David Lyndsay – Tinker offers a searching critique of […]
Book Review: How We Got the Bible (Greg Lanier)
Fearn: Christian Focus, 2018 This short little work deals with the text and canon of the Old Testament, and of the New. Although it is short – and in my […]
Book Review: Duties of Christian Fellowship (John Owen)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2017 John Owen became a Congregationalist (or Independent) by conviction, and so published this little work in 1647, although it is suitable for Christians of every […]
Civil Days and Holy Days
It just so happens this year (2019) that Easter Sunday and Anzac Day fall near one another – on the 21 April and 25 April respectively. Given that the New […]
Book Review: Can We Trust the Gospels? (Peter J. Williams)
Wheaton, Crossway, 2018 If you have come across the writings of Bart Ehrman, Peter Williams’ little book is the antidote you may need. Bart Ehrman mocks the notion that the […]
Book Review: The Westminster Confession
Edinburgh, The Banner of Truth, 2018 The Westminster Confession of Faith was produced over a number of years, from 1643 to 1647. It derived from meetings (1,163 of them!) in […]
Banning the Holy Spirit and Chaining the Word
As Western societies lurch from one disastrous fad to another, there have been increased efforts to ban what are called gay conversion therapies. Hollywood has naturally offered its obligatory contribution […]
Book Review: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (John Bunyan)
Review of John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1666, reprinted 2018. In 1666 Bunyan, who was to spend twelve years in prison for […]
An Unexpected Danger: Family and Friends Provide Both Solace and Risk
Two of the most wonderful consolations in a sin-sick and decayed world are friendship and family. The only thing that was declared not to be good before the Fall was […]
Diversity: A Blind Faith
If love and marriage go together as a horse and carriage, so too do diversity and progressive thought. To counter any opposition to anything, all one has to do is […]
Rich in Mercy: God’s grace comes in the context of judgement
For some time there has been an error which has been nurtured in evangelical circles that sounds thoroughly evangelical yet actually undermines the whole message of the evangelical, that is […]