While I believe Piper is arguably one of the greatest preachers alive, he is also a fantastic biographer. I found these words very encouraging. It is amazing to realize that one man’s moment of foolishness directly led to a course of action which would arguably inspire the entire modern missions movement! God truly is sovereign—even over our unwise mistakes. As someone who is prone to foot-in-mouth disease myself (and more serious failures of tongue control) it is good to know that... Read more
The word revival is back on the lips of people I know — I hadn’t even heard it mentioned for a very long time until just recently. I thought I would share some quotes from Spurgeon on the subject of revival with you today. I hope and pray it inspires you to pray for revival, and to have an eye that is trained to see the signs of God’s reviving work that are all around us every day. “And now,... Read more
This year there is no Together for the Gospel. The similarly named newfrontiers conference will, however, be on. Visitors will be coming from many nations, including, of course, the USA. So if you have always wanted to visit the “mother country” or you have wondered what a reformed charismatic conference would be like – why not come along. I hope to be there myself, so it would be great to meet some of you there. In other related news, the mp3... Read more
Revival is a word that is on some people’s lips once more in my circles. It is something we are again praying for and crying out to God about. I came across this quote from The Doctor on my CD of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones materials. The question has to be asked . . . if revival is like this, are you sure you want it? I definitely do, but am not so very sure that if it was to come it... Read more
As I return to blogging, I cannot help but think of a verse in Proverbs which haunts a chatterbox and prolific blogger like me. What implications does it have for us? Does it mean we should write less and think more? I suspect so! “When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.” (Proverbs 10:19) Read more
Just before Christmas, someone I know asked me what I was going to do on my blog to “follow” my interview with Wayne Grudem. In that moment I knew exactly how I was going to follow it — with silence. Sometimes the best way to try and follow something is quite simply not to! To be honest, I felt like I needed a break anyway. The good news for me (I think!) is that not one of my readers wrote... Read more
Here’s wishing all of you a great Christmas and a successful New Year where God blesses you richly in every way. Be prepared to be surprised, though, as God’s blessings don’t always look like we expect them to! This time of year my thoughts always turn both forwards and backwards. So I’d like—in what will be my final post before the end of this year—to wish you all a great break, and to review the year. I did this... Read more
This Christmas time, I thought I would share what might be a preach-er’s wish list for Logos Bible Software. These resources all work best together with a core library product, but sharing some of these with you may start to whet your appetite for just what is possible. Remember that electronic books are much cheaper, smaller, and easier to use than their paper versions. They also allow you to have their entire contents effectively in your working memory. Want to... Read more
42: Dave Warnock apologises: “I confess and ask for forgiveness that despite my greatest desire and best intentions to love others as Jesus did, and as He told me to do as well, that I frequently fail, and that recently Adrian Warnock and Wayne Grudem have got the brunt of it. I also confess that my failings to love also demonstrate my failings as a pacifist. It has seemed to me more and more a requirement that to follow Jesus... Read more
UPDATEIn January 2008, the following post was identified as the 6th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 7th most read post was “What is a Reformed Charismatic?“ As stated below, this post summarized my interview with this gift to the global Church—Dr. Wayne Grudem. Individual segments of the interview would have also made the top 30 in their own right, as would my review of Grudem’s supreme Systematic Theology. *************** At times it looked like it... Read more
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