Theology on the Go

A word to our listeners: We started Theology on the Go about six months ago. We’re grateful that its reach and influence have been steadily increasing. But we’ve experienced some growing pains lately on the site, so in order to insure that the interviews and follow-up articles are consistent and...

There is an old joke for those who cannot sing that I may not be making a joyful noise but at least I’m joyful when I make it. For those reasons, some people can find congregational singing to be intimidating, yet, hopefully, we would all acknowledge the importance of congregational singing as a...

I was sinking fast. It was my third year of church planting and I was having one of those “seminary didn’t prepare me for this!” moments. If memory serves me, I was taking what felt like my last gulp of air when I came into contact with Gregory of Nazianzus. For some that will be a familiar name...

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” But how does one know such a danger exists unless one already possesses an interest in, and respect for, people who lived and thought and wrote in the past? And in order to avoid this historical pitfall, the assumption must exist that people...

The pastor has many responsibilities in his ministerial life, it is difficult to try to suggest adding one more thing to a busy plate. In church ministry, it is often hard enough as a pastor to get people to read and study their Bibles let alone engage and enjoy church history. While I understand...

One Sunday morning, after the church service ended, the late Professor John Murray of Westminster Seminary was approached by a student. “Graded our papers yet, Professor Murray?” the student asked. Murray was silent, almost certainly leaving the student bewildered and embarrassed. The next...

We all know Martin Luther. Correction – We all know something about Luther. Perhaps we know the story about the ninety-five thesis, or his great “here I stand” speech, or the perhaps apocryphal knife incident at the colloquy of Marburg. But there are some lesser known things about Luther’s life...

Join Theology on the Go host Jonathan Master as he talks with Jonty Rhodes about biblical covenants. Jonty is Minister of Christ Church Derby (International Presbyterian Church) in the United Kingdom. Pastor Rhodes is the author of a new book published with P...

Martin Luther...

Although Whitefield’s style moderated in the years after the height of his Great Awakening preaching, his basic Calvinist convictions did not change. In the late summer of 1762 Whitefield made his annual journey to Scotland, giving his departing sermon at Edinburgh on Aaron’s blessing to the...