The following article was originally published on the Place for Truth blog of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at placefortruth.org. At our once-rural (now-suburban) church, we have two weekly prayer meetings. On Wednesday nights, we gather to pray for an hour, structuring our time around praise, confession of sin, and supplication. On Lord’s Day afternoons, we […]
Review: Reformed Theology by Jonathan L. Master
As the fourth installment in P&R Publishing’s Blessings of the Faith series, Jonathan Master’s Reformed Theology presents “a fairly mainstream, middle-of-the road definition” of the Reformed theological tradition (p. 95). Master writes with verve and clarity, and his phrasing is memorable at more than a few points. This book is an excellent go-to handout book […]
Majoring in the Minors: Micah
The following article was originally published on the Place for Truth blog of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at placefortruth.org. As we survey the twelve so-called Minor Prophets, Micah seems to be the prophet most obviously oriented on Christ the coming Messiah. More clearly and directly than the other eleven books that make up this canonical […]
Majoring in the Minors: Joel
The following article was originally published on the Place for Truth blog of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at placefortruth.org. In reading the Minor Prophets, you might at first be overwhelmed by the sheer proportion of material concerning judgment: judgment against Israel, judgment upon neighboring nations, and judgment condemning the unrighteous. How should conscientious readers navigate […]
Review: Well Ordered, Living Well by Guy Prentiss Waters
This book review originally appeared on the Presbyterian Polity website here. The venerable ecclesiastical word “Presbyterian” has fallen on hard times. The Twentieth Century played host to a fierce contest between so-called Modernists in one corner and so-called Fundamentalists in the other. Christians of every denominational stripe were caught between the opposing forces of theological […]
Polity Protects the Pulpit
The following article was originally published on the Presbyterian Polity blog at pcapolity.com. After the 50th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), I had the unique privilege to spend 8.5 hours in my car with a founding father of the denomination. Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr. and I made the long drive from Memphis […]
