Imagine talking about your Lord and Saviour with a few good friends. Biblical insight, mutual encouragement and the gentle humour of friends. Now imagine your friends are Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler and C.J. Mahaney. What you have is Together For The Gospel. (Abbreviated to T4G) These four enjoyed a personal friendship that they …
There are some who read the words ‘Humble Calvinism’ and think it an oxymoron, a phrase that contradicts itself, like ‘dry rain’ or ‘hot ice’. Rather, it should be a tautology, a phrase that repeats itself. On Pyromaniacs, among a group of year-end book reviews, Phil Johnson commends a new publication of ‘The Marrow Of …
Got to wondering the other night. Some presentations of the Christmas narrative can make it sound like reconciliation was achieved by the incarnation. ‘God with us’ as a done deal, so to speak. In that economy we respond to God’s presence and the call for kingdom living through the life and call of Jesus. But …
Over the last twenty to thirty years the reformation doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone has been subject to reformulation by different figures. The Church of Rome and the Lutheran Church produced a joint statement about justification in the 1990’s. As much as I can tell, the document affirms that if certain …
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