As I’m not wildly impressed by the tiny Scriptures snippets suggested in Common Worship Times and Seasons for Harvest, here are some words a...

Here's the text of my handout for a sermon on John 3:16. The "D"s are stolen from 4 advent sermons by John Piper (1994). My s...

OFSTED has been complaining about maths teaching. According to the BBC News website : The effectiveness of work in maths was judged to be ou...

John 3:17 tells us that God’s intention in sending Jesus was to save the world through Him. Surely God’s intention was fulfilled. J...

Someone asked me what he might read on questions charismatic. I’ve not read all of these but perhaps: Don Carson, Showing the Spiri...

Faith surely involves the due use of God given and appointed means. You probably know the old gag: A man is trapped on his roof in a flood w...

For anyone who might be interested (!) he's the first chapter (to be written) of the PhD I'm working on (which is intended to form c...

What exactly are criticisms of Christendom 1 that must be avoided in Christendom 2.0? (1) It was sometimes repressive / opressive / co-erciv...

I learnt from Mark Mason of Chichester University at Initial Ministerial Education on Saturday the expression “fess up”. I tried it out...

On page 14 of the UK edition of The Briefing (Sept 08, Issue 360) we learn that "in our last issue, we looked at the difference between...

Liam Beadle has some striking quotations from B B Warfield (a hot Prot!) on the Supper as a Sacrifice. I've added some bleeding chunks o...

Some evangelicals can sometimes give the impression that nothing much good happened in the church between Augustine of Hippo and Luther. Cou...

I think speaking to Christians who are sick, struggling or suffering in some way yet persevering can be one of the most encouraging things ...

Thomas Watson comments: He is the only wise God; he knows how to make evil things work for good to his children. Rom viii 28. He can make a ...

In thinking about a corporate understanding of John 3:1-15 , I came across this: Descent from Father Abraham and membership of one of the tw...

A live blog from camp! All is going well - through many dangers, toils and snares, and with His strength made perfect in weakness and so on....

We’re off on our CPAS Ventures camp first thing in the morning, for which we’d very much appreciate your prayers. It’s a camp whic...

I have just looked myself onto the Proc Trust Autumn joint ministers' conference, but don't let that put you off going. I understan...

Thanks to Mrs Lloyd for directing me to Mrs Wilson's blog post on little ones in church. http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2008/07/24/litt...

For what they're worth (which I'm afraid probably isn't very much) here's a Word Document with some notes I prepared for the...