North-West University Professor J. M. Vorster’s The Gift of Life: Toward an ethic of human personhood (2021) represents a crowning of his career as a Reformed Pastor, theologian, and ethicist in the South African context.1 I review this volume as a fellow . . . Continue reading →
He was, in my experience, relentlessly cheerful. He had a ready smile and an encouraging word. A midwesterner, who earned his spurs on the Plains, he was an endless fount of stories. This was a source of irritation to some of my fellow students but on the Plains, stories are a part of life. I am sure that I learned as much about pastoral ministry from Derke’s stories about ministry as I did from his lectures. Continue reading →
Colin raised this question a while back on Unashamed Workman. He asked for comments and, as Mike had just touched on this during the WSC Missional and Reformed Conference, I piped up: Hi Colin, This business of “living the gospel” is one . . . Continue reading →
Kim Riddlebarger has a new commentary on 1Corinthians forthcoming in the Lectio Continua series. He’s got the information on the RB. The Lectio Continua series is a new exegetical, Reformed commentary, on Scripture, edited by Jon Payne, pastor of Grace PCA in . . . Continue reading →
Re-published from February 17, 2008. Colin raised this question a while back on Unashamed Workman. He asked for comments and, as Mike had just touched on this during the WSC “Missional and Reformed” Conference, I piped up:
At the Ligonier Blog. The HB gets a little love.
Two excellent and stimulating interviews. First, of the last three episodes of the White Horse Inn, their analysis of the survey of the responses by 90+ attendees to a Christian rally in St Louis was most enlightening. 67% of the respondents disagreed . . . Continue reading →
Martin has the details
The link is at Feeding on Christ otherwise go here. When the window opens you can sign in, sign up, or click on “guest” and the live audio should start. The question is: what book(s) led you to Reformed theology? They’re giving . . . Continue reading →
Info is online. The theme is: “I Am Not My Own” I’ll be there (after a fashion) More Info:
Thanks to the Wittenberg Door for reminding us that the first edition of Heidelberg Catechism (Heidelberger Katechismus) was published on this day (19 January) in 1563. You can read the catechism for yourself and about it here. The catechism was written to . . . Continue reading →
Martin Downes is one of my favorite writers. He writes daily at Against Heresies. Sometime back he did a series of interviews with several theologians/historians. That collection, Risking the Truth, is to appear this March. It features interviews with Mark Dever, Carl Trueman, . . . Continue reading →
If you want to see Kim on video. Here it is. Zrim gets a mention!
Here he is (HT: Justin)
I dig the Outhouse.
Details at the RB
Well, it never really went away but now it has a website and a prominent Reformed author behind it…sort of.
After a brief hiatus, De Regno Christi is back and so is Darryl Hart and he wonders why so many Reformed folk seem bent on identifying with “evangelicalism.”
Two reviews in one day! The book is here.
Martin explains.