Hearing the Voice of the Lord in Your Pastor’s Sermon
“And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God,…
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A Prayer for Seminary Graduates
“Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!” (Ps. 43:3) Almighty, everliving, merciful Lord God and Heavenly Father, we cry out to you in praise…
Book Giveaway: Words Only Psalter
Thanks to our friends at Crown & Covenant Publications we have two (2) copies of the beautiful and soft leather-like The Book of Psalms for Worship: Words Only Edition. The deadline for entering is Friday, June 3. Here’s the entry form.
The Anglican Conscience (2)
“So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.” (Hebrews 13.12-13) Last time I paused at the…
Family Worship: A Guide to Daily Reformation at Home
Reformation Scotland Trust was formed in 2013. Their stated aim is “to promote the restoration of the Christian Church in Scotland, by informing, educating and promoting understanding of the attainments of the Second Reformation in Scotland.” That is an aim…
Wednesday @ Westminster: Upheld by Providence
The God of the Bible is the God who has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass from all eternity and who in human history brings all his plans to reality through creation and redemption (Eph. 1:11). This means he surely is…
Good Works and Sola Fide
In my last article I discussed that the puritans believed that good works are more than the fruit of faith, justification and salvation in that they are the way to eternal life and an antecedent condition of glorification. The minority…
Lessons from a Letter of Call to John Owen
At some point in every local pastor’s ministry he is going to experience an inquiry and even a call to serve in another congregation or area of service. I know for me, the first time this happened I had no…
Samuel Rutherford on the Covenant of Grace
Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) is often regarded as the finest Scottish theologian of the mid-seventeenth century. I’m not sure I entirely accept that. For me, at least David Dickson and James Durham were on a par with him, if not his…
Wilhelmus à Brakel on Damnation by Faith
Can faith damn us? The Dutch “Puritan” theologian Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) argued that the first sin of Adam and Eve was unbelief. To state this differently, they exchanged faith in the Word of God for faith in the word of the…