I had a delightful day yesterday at the Grace Baptist Church in Edlesborough, hearing Stuart Olyott run about 60 men of varying ages and backgrounds through what it meant to preach the Word of God. Two morning sessions encouraged us to "Listen to yourself" - to make an objective analysis of our...

I am looking forward to reading a new publication from Reformed Baptist Academic Press called Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology , edited by Rich Barcellos. It is a delight to see reformed Baptists wrestling through the rich heritage we have of a robust covenantal...

The friends at Faithlife were kind enough to send me an advance copy of Logos 6 to play around with. Current users of Logos will already have a pretty good notion of what they are dealing with. New or prospective users might consider the composite review of Logos 5 here , here and here for a basic...

This year's Westminster Conference is within hailing distance (Tue 02 and Wed 03 Dec) and the bookings have begun rolling in. Details can be found on the new website , together with the booking form for those wishing to attend. First time attendees at the conference can come free if they are among...

In our efforts to make Christ known where God has put us, we have regular meetings to preach the gospel in a village outside our town. It is a hard place, not surprisingly given that it is full of hard hearts, many of which are cushioned by a false assurance derived from long-term empty religiosity...

How pleased and blest was I To hear the people cry, "Come, let us seek our God today!" Yes, with a cheerful zeal We haste to Zion's hill, And there our vows and honours pay. The excitement is building and the tension is mounting. We have been eagerly anticipating this day, a day on which we get to...

The Andrew Fuller Center at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has been re-jigging its output. Part of the result is a new, regular newsletter. More details are available here . Extra points are available for those who know why it is called, simply, Kettering .

The Banner of Truth is entering the sphere of the digital reader! A first ten volumes have been released as ebooks, combining a mix of classics with more modern treatments. Among the ancients you will find Bunyan, Owen, Spurgeon and Brown. More modern volumes include Edward Donnelly's outstanding...

And now this . Who can read such things, and of such things, without sorrow?

John Pye Smith was a Congregationalist of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was theological tutor at the Dissenting academy known as Homerton College near Hackney, London, for forty-five years between 1805 and 1850. In addition he was minister of the Old Gravel Pit Chapel in Chatham...

Friends towards the west coast of the US of A might be interested in this year's Southern California Reformed Baptist Pastors' Conference on "The Doctrine of Scripture" on the 3rd and 4th of November. Dr. Carl Trueman is the keynote speaker and will be addressing the doctrine of Scripture from the...

If you have never had the opportunity to indulge yourself in the works of Andrew Fuller (3 volumes, Sprinkle edition), luxuriating in the penetrating thought and terse prose of the greatly gifted Baptist theologian, then this may be your opportunity. If you are a Logos user, the three volumes are...

Looking at Logos 5, we have considered the underlying Logos 5 platform , and then considered the base packages available before surveying a specialist package . In the last part of this extended review, I want to ask the question, "Should you consider Logos, and - if so - for whom?" I think that...

In our ongoing review of Logos 5, we have considered the underlying Logos 5 platform , and then considered the base packages available. Today, we move on to the specialist packages and bundles . Here, my example is the Gold Reformed package . That's important, because Logos is a company that caters...

6 5. 6 5 (North Coates) Every precious blessing Comes from God above; Everything we have is From his heart of love. Jesus is the best gift, Coming down to save: Dying for his people, Rising from the grave. Gracious Spirit, give us Hearts to trust the Son, Souls that overflow with Praise for all he'...

Last week we began to look at the Logos 5 platform , assessing something of the underlying provision. Today we move on to the base packages . These come at a range of levels, the most popular likely to be Gold, Silver or Bronze . There's also a Starter pack with some of the very basic materials,...

Some time ago I read a letter from a pastor who had spent time in hospital. He was surprised at how ill-equipped the saints who came to visit him seemed to be in ministering to his soul as he lay in the hospital bed. More recently, I was asked by a brother in a church which is currently without a...

Just around the corner from our church building is a junior school. We have a reasonable relationship with the school, extending to taking occasional school assemblies, depending on who is responsible for arranging them. Over the last fifteen years or so, since the neighbourhood was established and...

Having been away on holiday for a week (yes, delightful, thank you for asking), I return to find that things continue much as they were, except that Mark Jones has joined Team Reformation21, and Paul has allowed him to write a long post using long words and referring to past centuries without...

As the brouhaha concerning antinomianism continues to develop, with fallout in various spheres, it is sad to see the vagueness, brutality and confusion that seems to spring up in its wake, more or less prevalent and evident depending on the medium employed. Vagueness, because lots of people seem to...

Tom Nettles, Living By Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon . Christian Focus, 2013, 700pp, £29.99/$38.00 It would be going over the top to declare an interest, but perhaps an admission of sorts would be in order: I yield the palm to none in my admiration for...

S.M. (Bod Alwyn) God set before me love To draw my soul to him, But I was bound in Satan's chains And revelled in my sin. I saw the mercy seat, Was taught the way to go; I saw that Christ had died for sin, But did not want to know. I would not follow him, I fought against his call, But God would...

I managed to sneak in a few hours at the Banner of Truth Ministers Conference in Leicester last week. I was unable to stay for more than a day, but heard a sweet sermon from Andrew Davies, what was for me a somewhat ungrounded disquisition on sin by the very engaging David Meredith, and a thought-...

Last weekend brought with it all the brouhaha that seems to be the sadly-increasing norm among evangelicals with regard to 'holy week' and Easter Sunday. Now, I will deny no man the opportunity to preach about the risen Christ on any day that he chooses. Furthermore, if there is a possibility in a...