To be quite honest, when reading the publicity, this talk was the one that most inspired me to attend the Theology for All conference. Mark is somewhat of an expert on Church history, and in particular the Puritans. As a pastor, he is concerned not merely with transferring knowledge to his congregation, but also in showing them the lessons to be learned from what has happened in the past. Mark underlined the old maxim, “What one generation knows and teaches,... Read more
Last month Mark Dever was on tour. In the middle of central London, somewhere off Picadilly in a large church—complete with organ—I sat with a gathering of church leaders and others eager to hear Mark speak. (OK, so it’s been a long time since I sang a hymn to an organ!) Anyway, Mark began the day by turning to 1 Timothy 1:12-17. True to form, Dever began with the Gospel. Paul reminds his son in the faith of the dramatic... Read more
Dave Bish has the audio of this year’s UCCF (the UK’s Intervarsity Fellowship equivalent) conference. Forum 2007 Audios Read more
On Saturday, September 22nd I attended the Theology For All Conference in central London at which Mark Dever spoke. To be honest, I was a bit apprehensive about attending as I wondered if I would be the only charismatic in attendance. Since the concept of Together for the Gospel hasn’t really crossed the Atlantic, I almost felt like an interloper. It was great then to arrive and to feel so welcomed by a good number of my readers who were... Read more
Just hours after the conference finished, the Desiring God National Conference is online in its entirety. John MacArthur was one of the guest speakers. Read more
Martyn Lloyd-Jones was not known as “The Doctor” merely because he had a medical degree. He was a master spiritual diagnostician, and skillfully applied treatment with God’s Word to our condition. The following extract is a good example of this, dealing as it does with the nature of sin and its relationship to our prideful independence, which we today call “self-sufficiency.” “The fatal mistake is to think of sin always in terms of acts and of actions rather than in... Read more
In this extract from the forthcoming Owen book, John Owen reveals just how distant he is from many modern-day Christians. How often do we talk about a conscious relationship with the living Christ? How much do we truly enjoy his presence? How much are we aware of how precious he is? Is our failure to truly pursue a conscious experience of Jesus part of the reason why we often struggle to fight against sin? Who would eat the moldy crumbs... Read more
The following passage, taken from the forthcoming John Owen book, Communion with the Triune God, highlights a reason for our spiritual weakness and our lack of joy—we do not consciously commune with God the Father, and when we think of him, we think of him as full of wrath toward us: “First, then, this is a duty wherein it is most evident that Christians are but little exercised—namely, in holding immediate communion with the Father in love. Unacquaintedness with our... Read more
There are few places where one can go to study church history more rewarding than Dr. John Piper’s biographical talks. He has a way of opening up the life of a great hero of the faith and showing us what we can learn from them. I’m finding myself in John Owen’s Communion with the Triune God quite consistently at the moment, and am now over half-way through the book. I am finding it to be sweet to the soul and,... Read more
You may remember a simple definition of the word charismatic I shared from a recent book review which began: “Those who recognize that the gift of the Spirit is to be received . . .” While it is anachronistic to ask if John Owen was a charismatic, it is very interesting indeed that, like John Piper and Martyn Lloyd-Jones, he makes a clear distinction between the work of the Spirit in saving us and another experiential work that is available... Read more
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