In John 5, the Jews charge the man who has been healed of his paralysis with breaking the Sabbath for carrying his mat (v10). He puts the bl...

You might be interested in Ecclesia Reformanda, an exciting new journal for pastors, theological students, and scholars, that seeks to se...

Here is Wallace's summary of Calvin: The Mediator of all revelation between God and man in the Old Testament is the Word of God, the ...

Ronald Wallace claims that " Calvin is above all a Biblical scholar". I'm not sure I'm convinced. Perhaps he is above all ...

Ina sermon preached at All Souls' Langham Place on the second commandment on 21 Apr 1991 (and available on the church website), Rev...

According to Ex 20:4 we are not to make an idol in the form of anything “in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.” ...

The description of the Golden Calf in Exodus 32 is strange. Since Moses has been so long in coming down from the mountain, the people say to...

James Jordan points out another use of the word “carving” or pesel , in addition to Exodus 20:4, “You shall not make for yourself a carvin...

James Jordan writes that: The Bible says that Jesus was crucified on a tree, which was probably a real tree. Roman soldiers did not normally...

Professor John Frame defends the legitimacy of pictures of Jesus in The Doctrine of the Christian Life (P&R, 2008) p484ff, which is just...

It’s interesting to find a Reformed professor making statements like this from John Frame: Most everything in Lutheran and Anglican w...

Brian Edwards suggests that: The National Lottery has become probably the number one idol of the United Kingdom at the present time, with th...

Once men's idols were metal. For us, more often, they are mental. Either way, the human heart remains an idol-factory.

So often we want a manageable man-sized God. Man-size tissues are pretty big, as far as tissues go, but a man-sized god is a pathetic little...

G. W. Bromiley says: The general view of the Reformers was that, considering scriptural precedent and the purpose and meaning of the sac...

Or rather, not. G. W. Bromiley writes: The action [of the Lord's Supper] presupposes a minister…. It has always been recognized ...

In thinking about the relationship between word and sacrament, it is a new thought to me that it might be argued on the basis of the Johanni...

Some quotes plundered from the interweb on the evidence for the resurrection: Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby school and Regius Pr...

Some jottings for a sermon on John 5:1-15, which should appear on our church sermon page in due course: A real historical event A...

Mrs Lloyd and I finished off our Christmas cake yesterday. I thought it was remarkably abstemious that we should make our Christmas cake las...