New In Print: Machen’s Doctrine Of Salvation

The February, 2023 issue of Tabletalk, published by Ligonier, features J. Gresham Machen and is entitled Christianity and Liberalism. It features essays by Stephen Nichols on “The Modernist Conflict in the American Church,” W. Robert Godfrey on “Christianity and Worldly Philosophy,” and series . . . Continue reading →

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Where Is Faith In Justification?

In Romans and other Pauline epistles, repentance is a fruit of God’s grace rather than its cause. For example, we find in Romans 2:4: Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s . . . Continue reading →

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Popes, Progress, And Protestant Evangelicals

When John Paul II was elected pope in 1978, some American evangelical observers of Rome referred to him as “J2P2.” About ten years later that nickname receded, an indication of a significant transition in his pontificate: this pope was becoming even more . . . Continue reading →

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Sayers Knew What Time It Is

Something is happening to us today which has not happened for a very long time. We are waging a war of religion. Not a civil war between adherents of the same religion, but a life-and-death struggle between Christian and pagan. The Christians . . . Continue reading →

Saturday Psalm Series: Psalm 88 (Part 7): Light in the Midst of Darkness

The Light that Reverses the Darkness

Throughout the Psalter many questions are posed in a melancholy manner. In book three of the Psalter (Psalms 73–89), we find a plethora of laments in the interrogative form. Imagine approaching the Lord with the following questions: Why do You cast us . . . Continue reading →