Who's that preacher?

Was Spurgeon a Calvinist? It seems incredible that the question should be asked, given the amount of literature available on Spurgeon and ...

I need to try a few times before I have confidence to start using this blog again!

I seem to have gained entry to my own blog on the iPad, using Safari and blogger.com..

I seem to have managed to get in to my old blog... we'll see!

Donald Macleod in the November 'Evangelicals Now' complains about New Calvinist preachers dressing like pop stars. (He says 'dre...

Do you ask how it is with me?  Just as the weather is this morning.  My heart is cold as the snow under foot, and cloudy as the sky over ...

Hmm. I'm having trouble making new posts here. When it's sorted, I hope to be back!

I've always had my spiritual heroes, from the first days of my conversion. My first hero was undoubtedly the amazing Jim Elliot who d...

James Haldane went to Morocco and after years he became a scholar of the Koran and of Arabic languages and dialects. For 39 years he vis...

... and here's the helpful Stuart Olyott telling me how.  Lots of good advice.  If only I'd listened...

A link on Conrad Mbewe's blog lead me to a fascinating interview with Paul Levy of the International Presbyterian Church in London.  I...

I'm reproducing these posts from the Ref21 folks, completely without permission, but I don't think they'll mind.  The issue is s...

Strange Fire... It won't have escaped the attention of either of my readers that John MacArthur is hosting a conference on the Ch...

Dear Preacher of the Gospel, Before you let your 'native reserve', 'cultural sensitivity' or even your 'theological ...

It's been a bit quiet round here lately.  It's not that I've more work to do than I used to have; it's just that it takes me...

...surely clericalism as a leadership style is Spirit-quenching.  Clericalism, which on my analysis involves more persons than the ordai...

If you prefer it in writing, here is Conrad Mbewe's modern-day parable: Car keys are meant by the car designer to be used only in the ...

All I will say about the Late Lady Thatcher, copied unashamedly from the blog of Cranmer :: In the Commons, it was her friend Conor Bu...

Some time ago in another place I voiced (a little tongue-in-cheek) the opinion that A.W. Pink may not have been genuinely converted.  I...

Many years ago I read a piece by Peter Masters reviewing IVP’s ‘New Bible Commentary Revised’ in which, among other things, he criticised ...

Bev Shea was 104 years old last Friday.  Converted aged 6, God has kept him for 98 years!

  Recently during our brief break in London, we faced the usual question of where to worship.  We settled on East London Tabernacle i...