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Puritanism, nonconformity, ‘justification by faith’ and the present day church of Christ

I have experienced an ever deepening and an ever increasing richness in my faith over the last week or so. I have been reading through John MacArthur’s daily bible, Calvin’s Institutes and a book by Martyn Lloyd Jones called From Puritanism to Nonconformity.
 Martyn Lloyd Jones
Martyn Lloyd jones covers the historical background leading up to the events [...]

Books I’ll be reading in 2009

I’m usually always reading something. Hopefully this year will be no different. However two books I desire to work through systematically within the year is the MacArthur daily bible (Christmas present from my wife Laura) and John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian religion.

The bible is my primary objective, as good as some books are, there is [...]

John Piper on church planting

Church planting is definitely ‘in’. It seems to be the ‘now thing’.  All you need to do is check out the websites of some of the most popular Christian denominations and movements and you will see just how ‘in’ church planting is. The websites of Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill, New Frontiers, Tim Chester’s Crowded House, [...]

What does the New Testament actually teach about the gift of tongues and prophesy? Part One

One of the greatest areas of division among Christians has been, and continues to be, the issue of spiritual gifts. In particular the gifts of speaking in tongues and prophesy. I plan to explore these areas over several blog posts. This post is going to look at the biblical attitude towards speaking in tongues and prophesying.
Attitude [...]

The Calvin Blog 2009

Reformation 21 are blogging through Calvin’s institutes begining in January 2009. You can contact them for a reading schedule inorder to read with them as they study it and blog about it. I guess its a bit like an online book club.
I plan to take advantage of the opportunity as I bought a copy of [...]


    "Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search admidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there; you search admid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there; and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment… Look full in the face of Jesus… Drink in His Word… Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus."
    Robert Murray McCheyne