I recently interviewed Mark Dever on his new book, What Is a Healthy Church, and if you’re interested in another interview with Dever, who is always worth listening to, see the latest issue of “The Book Report” from Crossway, where they interview Dever on the book he edited with J. Ligon Duncan III, R. Albert …
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John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Aitken
John Newton has received a good deal of attention this year, as the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in England has been celebrated with books and a movie about William Wilberforce. Newton was something of a spiritual support for Wilberforce, and he gave key testimony to parliament on the evils of …
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Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Last night I spoke on Thomas Cranmer at the John Bunyan Theology and Church History Conference hosted by Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Kingwood, Texas. Virtually everything I said was informed by Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography of Cranmer, with a little help from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. In God’s providence, yesterday was Cranmer’s 518th birthday. He …
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The Gospel and Religious Liberty: Interview with the Editors of First Freedom, Part 3 of 3
Part 1 is here, part 2 is here. In your opinion, is it going to take another “Great Awakening” for religious liberty to be preserved? MBY: It wasn’t the “Great Awakening” that gave us religious liberty in the first place, so I am not sure what the question entails. Moreover, if by “Great Awakening,” it …
The Gospel and Religious Liberty: Interview with the Editors of First Freedom, Part 2 of 3
Part 1 is here. Are there practical things that contemporary local churches here in the USA can do to maintain the balance of being in the world but not of it? In other words, how do we balance appropriate and necessary involvement in the public square with being about our Father’s business? Should we be …
Religious Liberty and the Gospel: An Interview with the Editors of First Freedom, Part 1 of 3
Thomas White, Jason Duesing, and Malcolm Yarnell have edited a spirited collection of essays that originated as papers presented at the Baptist Distinctives Conference in September of 2005. White, Duesing, and Yarnell serve us in this volume by allowing all of us not able to attend the conference the opportunity to read not only their …
The Fall of Saul and the Rise of David
My sermons on 1 Samuel 31 through 2 Samuel 3, preached June 3, 10, and 17, are available here. In the past we have had some trouble with the audio, but a new sound system and the faithful labors of the saints have fixed the problem.
The Southern Baptist Convention
This past week I attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention for the first time. Various reactions to the meeting can be read in the blogosphere. The two main impressions I came away with were these: (1) all of us who are recent graduates of SBC seminaries have no right to complain about …
Douglas Wilson Can Flat Write
If this paragraph doesn’t make sense to you, go read the whole thing (I would, of course, alter “Baptizing babies” to “Baptizing believers” but this remains a powerful paragraph): Actually, I believe I can present evidence for what I know. But evidence comes to us like food, and that is why we say grace over …
The Problem with Penal Substitution
Set to appear in the “Forum” section of the next edition of SBJT. Posted here with the editor’s permission. “Mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other” (Ps 85:10). The problem with penal substitutionary atonement isn’t the idea that God could be wrathful. Anyone who believes the Bible—and reads it—will …
Free Christian Audio Book: The Reformed Pastor
Each month ChristianAudio is excited to give away one free audio book download. The books we give away are free for only one month. After that they are sold at the regular price. So make sure that you check back regularly and download these great Christian Classics for FREE! Use this coupon code – MAY2007 …
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Recent Martyrs
Stop whatever you are doing and go read this post on these three men: Ugur Yuksel Tilman Geske with his wife and three children Necati Aydin I have often heard John Piper say that the Muslim world will not be won without martyrs. May the Lord be pleased to use the testimony of these men …
PCA Study Report on Federal Vision
If you’ve heard of “Federal Vision, which is synonymous with “Auburn Avenue Theology,” this committee from the PCA: Committee Members: TE Paul Fowler, Chairman TE Grover Gunn, Secretary TE Ligon Duncan TE Sean Lucas RE Robert Mattes RE William Mueller RE John White.has done you a favor. They have carefully described Federal Vision, along with …
Wright on Substitution
In a previous post I wondered whether Wright includes the notion of God’s wrath being satisfied by Christ on the cross in his thinking about Penal Substitution. Several quotes have come to my attention that indicate that he has affirmed this idea in writing, so to my thinking he has answered that question. Here are …
N. T. Wright on C. S. Lewis
One great writer analyzes another, and light is shed on both. N. T. Wright reviews C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Enjoy! HT: JT
Only One Way?
What if you could hear from the likes of David Wells, D. A. Carson, Philip Ryken, and Ligon Duncan on engaging an increasingly pluralistic and relativistic culture with the exclusive truth claims of Christianity? Here’s your opportunity! Praise God for Crossway’s commitment to the reproach of the cross. The table of contents is here, and …
Where Is B&H Going? A Word from the Director of Academic Publishing
Some time back I linked to an interview with Dr. Ray Clendenen at B&H Academic. You can now read a personal, compelling, insightful statement from Ray on what he hopes B&H Academic will provide and why he has those hopes. As some publishing houses seem eager to follow liberal protestantism in the flight from the …
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Romania, Paris, Copper Mountain
If you check this blog regularly, you’ll have noticed that there were no posts through the middle of March. That’s because I was in Romania, then Paris, then Colorado. My friend Gabriel Ianculovici has posted a video of me preaching at a church plant in Romania with his brother, Chris, translating my English into Romanian. …
The Faithful Preacher
The foreword from John Piper is here. You can browse the table of contents here. This book is a must read. Here’s a description, followed by some weighty commendations from the publisher’s website: The cliché is that those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. But …