The Biblical Basis for Apostles Today by Don Walker In the synoptic gospels, the term apostle is used of the 12 disciples personally commissioned by our Lord to be the vanguard of those sent to proclaim the gospel — initially to Jerusalem, then to all the nations of the earth. In the New Testament epistles, apostles are mentioned in two contexts: Paul, in Ephesians 4:11-16, outlines the equipping gifts (Greek word-“doma”), addressing their place and function in the Church; and... Read more
Following the popularity of the 9 Pensacola sermons that were published for free download in 2010, we have now made a different set available. It includes 8 sermons that Martyn Lloyd-Jones (MLJ) preached in 1963 at the Summer Bible Conference held by the Hawthorne Gospel Church in New Jersey, USA. Several of them are similar to sermons in the Pensacola set, e.g. the ones titles ‘Assurance to Those Who are Slow to Believe‘, ‘How to Get the Gospel Across‘ and... Read more
When The Deity of Christ, a book sent by Crossway for me to review, was delivered to my house I was in the backyard roasting coffee. I was in process of creating a blend to commemorate a friend’s wedding. A blend in the world of coffee is a mixture of coffees from multiple origins and is typically blended to produce a balanced cup. As I perused the volume that had just arrived I was intrigued by the concept behind the... Read more
During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, “Heaven, Hell and Rob Bell.” This was by far the most popular series of posts Adrian wrote this year. If you missed it you can read the transcript or watch the video: Heaven, Hell and Rob Bell – a Face to Face Debate about Love Wins Read more
The Reformed, Charismatic & Missional conference, put on by Acts29 and Newfrontiers was a great success this year. The speakers for the weekend included Terry Virgo, Jeff Vanderstelt and Eliot Grudem. Confluence author Bryan Mowrey got a chance to sit down with each of these leaders and ask some questions a lot of people have been asking. In this video, Bryan speaks with Terry Virgo about roadblocks he has hit in helping people fully embrace charismatic gifts in life and... Read more
It’s hard to believe a month has gone by since the last Newsletter. (Truth be told it hasn’t as I wrote and scheduled this post a month ago so I could go on my blog break!) Tomorrow, the second newsletter will be posted and the first few of you to follow the link included in the newsletter will be able to claim your free book! (Limited to one per person) Please note that the books are only available for people... Read more
Have you ever sat down and worked your way through the years of the first few generations of mankind (Genesis 5)? It’s a few minutes work, but it is worth it. There are a few surprises that grab your attention straight away. And one of them is a particularly sobering one – Methuselah. Biography Methuselah comes onto the scene in world history with what seems at first to be an outrageous claim by Moses that Methuselah lived to the ripe... Read more
During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, “An Arminocalvinist spectrum or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists”. Although technically written at the end of last year, this post on an arminocalvinist specturm has had an enduring popularity. — I think when we come to the Arminian / Calvinist debate we must understand it is not simply a... Read more
During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, John Piper’s interview with Rick Warren on doctrine and The Purpose Driven Life. John Piper and Rick Warren are friends who come from slightly different wings of the modern church. It was great to see them discuss what unites them. As I keep saying, we have enough true enemies of the gospel at... Read more
Adrian’s blog has done a great job of both tracking and encouraging the growth in the number of Christians, churches and ministries that are willing and eager to own the two labels of charismatic and reformed. The apostle Paul was someone we could describe as being both reformed and charismatic. He wrote Romans 9, and spoke in tongues more than you do (1 Cor 14:8). He was also, perhaps above everything else, a missionary. Following his example, ministries like New... Read more
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