Sexual Identity: Saboteurs at the Door
The 17th century minister and Scotsman, Alexander Nisbet said, “the most dangerous heretics have many followers; every error they introduce turns out to be a friend to some lust in…
John Hartley
Studying the Confession: Make Disciples Old
It is possible to make disciples that are just too new. Case in point. In his book, The Creedal Imperative (Crossway, 2012), Carl Trueman relays the story of a pastor…
Westminster & Preaching: Prayer and the Pulpit
In his first sermon on our Lord’s prayer in John 17, Anthony Burgess (d. 1664), preacher and delegate to the Westminster Assembly, makes the case why prayer is necessary to…
Calvin’s Life: The French Missionaries
A great blind spot which afflicts anyone who limits their reading of Calvin to The Institutes is how thoroughly engrossed the Reformer was in missions work across Europe. Calvin was…
The New Perspective on Paul: Justification is Moral Remedy
Eight years-ago this month a friend gave me a copy of N.T. Wright’s new book, Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision (IVP, 2009). The handwritten note inside the cover…
Sexuality and Our Public Lives: Calvin Among the Samaritans
In commenting on the Samaritans our beloved brother, John Calvin, made a penetrating observation about the nature of religious pride. His comments are a particular help in answering the question, How…
Sexual Identity: Saboteurs at the Door
The 17th century minister and Scotsman, Alexander Nisbet said, “the most dangerous heretics have many followers; every error they introduce turns out to be a friend to some lust in…
The Trinity: The Triune God for Exiles
How do you explain to yourself why you are a Christian? Why do you think your life is a Christian life and not some other kind of life? Do you…
The Trinity: Impassible Love and Hate
A month before our son was born my wife came home from the baby shower with a gift even a father could love: two over-sized plush boxing gloves in the…
The Trinity: An Overview, Revealed by the Son
Why don’t we immediately see God the Holy Trinity jumping from the pages of Old Testament scripture? It is a sincere question a Muslim, a Jew and even a newer…
The Trinity: Divine Simplicity, A Guard Against Ethereal Idols
It is an ironic point not lost on many theologians that the doctrine of divine simplicity is not so simple. To study the doctrine you must be prepared to welcome…
Old Princeton: B. B. Warfield, Minister to Children
A minister of the gospel in service to Jesus Christ will necessarily have an interest in children. All servants who hear their Master say, “Let the children come to me;…