I’m not sure if I got the meaning and thrust of “admonish one another” exactly spot on in my sermon a couple of weeks ago on Colossians 1:28...

It seems weird to me that the Ecclesiastical Ordinances September & October 1541 of Calvin’s Geneva direct that: “It is pro...

I’m inclined to think we don’t really want to bother with Confirmation for the children of believers. Let them be repenting and believin...

The Draft Ecclesiastical Ordinances September & October 1541 of Calvin’s Geneva state: “The Sunday before the celebration [of t...

According to Reid, Luther reintroduced the question and answer form to catechisms that had fallen into desuetude. He argues that ...

My training incumbent and I are meant to come up with some sort of working agreement so its useful to be reminded of some sort of job descri...

Mrs Lloyd and I off on “camp” (Romsey 1) on Friday to indoctrinate 11-14 year olds. We’d very much value your prayers. Camp has “planted” th...

Here are some jottings for the talk I’m giving on camp on Saturday. Obviously the 11-14 year olds will be fascinated by my observations on B...

Here are some jottings for the Buzz group we’re thinking of doing on camp on Tuesday (advance planning, or wot?!: Main teaching point...

Here is an outline of the sermon I preached at Holy Trinity last Sunday from Colossians 1:28-29 entitled "How To Pray For The New Curat...

We’re thinking of doing some studies in Jonah in homegroups in the new autumn term followed by some material appropriate to advent. I’m th...

Here is a pattern of daily prayer for an Anglican minister with a family: 7:30-7:45am personal private prayer with a reading from...

Calvin says: “On the other hand, there are the psalms which we desire to be sung in the Church, as we have it exemplified in the ancient Chu...

We had a useful discussion yesterday in the Discipleship Explored homegroup about heaven and hell, but I don't think I answered this one...

Doumergue apparently has a list of abusive terms employed by Calvin! (Reid, Calvin’s Theological Treatises , p16) Sadly some of his contempo...

A. Mictchell Hunter said of Calvin: “Like Augustine, he wrote more than another can well read.” ( The Teaching of Calvin , p3, cited in Reid...

Reid comments that Calvin’s consistency is “based not on poverty of ideas but on remarkable systematization of thought.” Calvin: Th...

Calvin is well known for insisting that we really receive the true, whole Christ, body and soul, as we receive the bread and wine in the Sup...

Mrs Lloyd and I attended an Anglican mass (or, celebration of the Lord’s Supper) in which the celebrant held up a wafer and said, “This ...

I wassometimes laughed at at Oak Hill for using an interlinear New Testament, but would you believe it, they were given out at our ordianti...