Archive for July 2012
A Conversation with Ligon Duncan and Joshua Harris on the Gospel
EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent Together for the Gospel conference, April 10-12, Ligon Duncan, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church Jackson, Miss., and Josh Harris, senior pastor of Covenant Life Church Gaithersburg, Md., talked with “Towers” editor Aaron Cline Hanbury about honoring ecclesiological distinctive while maintaining gospel unity. What does it mean to…
Read MoreA Conversation with Vern Poythress
Interview by Matthew Claridge– Challenges to the evangelical doctrine of inerrancy just won’t stay down. It often seems that no amount of theological, historical, or exegetical fortifications can abate the waves of skepticism that continue to rage over this doctrine. So why the impasse? In his most recent volume, Vern Poythress suggests that the problem…
Read MoreHuman Ingenuity and Gospel Preaching (part 2/4)
By Fred Zaspel– In our previous blog we highlighted the difference between two prominent evangelists of the early nineteenth century, Asahel Nettleton and Charles Finney. Finney carried “revival in his briefcase,” convinced that the mere application of stated means could produce results. Nettleton, by contrast, decidedly removed himself from any “revival” that seemed to be…
Read MoreAre you for Calvinism or against Calvinism?
[Editor’s note: This review is from the May issue of Credo Magazine, “Chosen by Grace.”] Horton, Michael. For Calvinism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. Olson, Roger. Against Calvinism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. Reviewed by David Schrock– At the end of 2011, Zondervan published two companion works on the subject of Calvinism. Church historian and outspoken Arminian,…
Read MoreHow important are the Doctrines of Grace for healthy local church ministry?
In the May issue of Credo Magazine, “Chosen by Grace,” our usual “From a Scale of 1 to 10” asked four pastors the following question: “How important are the Doctrines of Grace for healthy local church ministry?” Here is what they had to say: 9.5. The doctrines of grace are not quite synonymous with the…
Read MorePrayer, Judgment, and Repentance: Revelation 8:1-9:21
By Thomas Schreiner– Sometimes we fail to see warning signs of what is about to happen. On April 18, 1983 the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed and sixty-three people were killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. On October 23, 1983 the Marine Barracks in Beirut. Lebanon were bombed, killing 242 Americans and 58 French…
Read MoreMy Summer Reading (Michael A.G. Haykin)
By Michael A.G. Haykin– Books are so much a part of my life—and summer is great when I can read some books that I would normally not have time to read. Here is a small list of some I have already read this summer and a few that I hope to read in July and…
Read MoreThe Effects of Aging on Sanctification (John Piper)
How Aging Works in Sanctification from Desiring God on Vimeo.
Read MoreChrist and Pan in the Wind and the Willows
By Matthew Claridge– photo source I finally got around to reading The Wind in the Willows for the first time a couple summers ago. Needless to say, I was absolutely enchanted. And I mean that in the fullest sense of the word. The book is atmospheric, almost haunting. Rarely can it be said that my…
Read MoreHuman Ingenuity and Gospel Preaching (part 1/4)
By Fred Zaspel– In 1821 in rural upstate New York, a young lawyer who had grown up a religious skeptic was converted to Christ. The next day in his law office he said to his client, “I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and I cannot plead yours.” It…
Read MoreHonoring Fundamentalism
By Michael A.G. Haykin– The term “Fundamentalism,” for many in our culture a word with entirely negative associations, was birthed in the 1910s and 1920s in connection with a desire to affirm the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith in the face of the 19th– and early 20th-century liberal denial of various orthodox doctrines. As such,…
Read MorePeter Lillback on George Washington
Today is the 4th of July. And for those of you who live in the United States of America, here is a book by Peter A. Lillback, president of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA., that you may find appropriate reading on a day like today. Lillback, Peter A. George Washington’s Sacred Fire. Providence Forum…
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