In an oft-quoted passage, Charles Spurgeon reflects on the nature of his calling as a pastor: “I am occupied in my small way, as Mr. Great-heart was employed in Bunyan’s day. I do not compare myself with that champion, but…
“I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways.” — Psalm 119:15 — Reading through the Bible in a year is a good practice, but one can easily fall into the trap of reading merely for distance. While there…
I recently happened upon a few articles by Henry Jansma on Thomas Watson’s “farewell prayer,” delivered in July of 1662. Watson and other ministers would be expelled from their pulpits a month later for failing to comply with the Act…
It is becoming a more common practice in some PCA churches for sessions to make the intentional decision not to ordain the deacons of the church. I could spell out in more detail my understanding of why that is, but…
Note: The Alliance is once again offering a year-long reading challenge for Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Click here for more information. John Calvin, the great French Reformer who devoted most of his ministry to the church in Geneva,…
The Wesleys had an enduring friendship and connection with George Whitefield (1714–1770), beginning with their Oxford Holy Club, followed by separate missionary journeys to America, and a call to open-air field preaching in England. During the earlier years of that…
Note: this post has been adapted with permission from A Workman Not Ashamed: Essays in Honor of Albert N. Martin. There are some things we do in church that go completely unquestioned—until they are. One such usually-unquestioned part of worship is…
I think it is safe to say most people are familiar with the hymn Amazing Grace. Many famous musicians have sung or performed it. It’s heard at many funerals and other events. Yet too few know the grace of which…
John 10:30 was a critical verse for the early church. As believers wrestled with the documents of the New Testament in terms of their teaching about our Lord’s identity, and in relation to the Old Testament, various views began to…
Editor’s Note: This article has been adapted from the preface of Biblical Patterns and Government. Cornell University Professor Barry Alan Shain has determined that rather than a generic republicanism or seventeenth century libertarianism nourishing the root of American democracy, a much…
