Supposing you were suddenly to find yourself among 7,000 mainly young people, singing without any band, Reginald Heber’s ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!’, and gathered to hear sermons for three days, you might well wonder where you were and what was happening. My own arrival in that situation was not entirely sudden for I had heard and read of it beforehand, but it has still left me with a degree of wonder. The place was Louisville, Kentucky, in April of this year. I had not been in a city before where I was stopped in the street,…Iain H Murray, “Thoughts on Together for the…
Supposing you were suddenly to find yourself among 7,000 mainly young people, singing without any band, Reginald Heber’s ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!’, and gathered to hear sermons for three days, you might well wonder where you were and what was happening. My own arrival in that situation was not entirely sudden for I had heard and read of it beforehand, but it has still left me with a degree of wonder. The place was Louisville, Kentucky, in April of this year. I had not been in a city before where I was stopped in the street,…
Kevin DeYoung, Al Mohler and I recently sat down to talk about the importance of inerrancy for preaching. Here’s a short clip of the video. We will be part of an Inerrancy Summit at The Shepherd’s Conference, March 3-8, 2015. For more information visit www.shepherdsconference.org and also look at the excellent resources available at www.inerrantword.com – and return regularly as the site is continuously updated. In our discussion, I made the point that since the fundamental task of the minister is to declare God’s word,…
RTS Washington Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is perhaps the world’s leading expert on the work of the Westminster Assembly. His massive five-volume work The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653 (Oxford University Press) is the most important historical exploration of the Assembly since the nineteenth century and surpasses everything that precedes it (including Mitchell and Struthers, Warfield, and Carruthers). Dr. Van Dixhoorn is also a pastor-professor in the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition who…
My friend and former RTS Jackson student, and Ugandan missionary to Rwanda, Gerald Sseruwagi unexpectedly died yesterday. Gerald had an amazing testimony and lived his life for the Lord courageously. He was disowned by his family after becoming a…
One of the best-known and loved metrical psalms still in wide use today is this setting of Psalm 100. Metrical psalms used to be the core of what was sung in Protestant worship services (by Presbyterians, Anglicans, congregationalists and others).…
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy explains how “100 yrs ago this morning an angry young man killed an Archduke in Sarajevo & broke the world. We haven’t fixed it yet”
I received my first copy of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Preaching and Preachers as a gift from a family in my home church as I was just beginning my studies in seminary. My copy was from the 14th printing of the first edition. I had been introduced…