Correction
I have been kindly and I hope reliably informed that Ray Comfort (see “The Man from George Street, Part 1”) is from New Zealand, actually.
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Incarnation Poem
The following poem by Joe Bayly recently appeared in the bulletin of College Church in Wheaton: Praise God for ChristmasPraise Him for the Incarnationfor Word made flesh.I will not sing of shepherds watching flocks on frosty nightor angel choristers.I will…
Books for Xmas
Two recommendations:
Of Monday Mornings
I resonate with what Derek says about Mondays, and suppose that many preachers do. I find a full day of preaching and ancillary ministry to be very draining. This summer a homiletics professor cited research indicating that preaching a one-hour…
The Man from George Street, Part 3
“That Baptist pastor flew to Adelaide in Australia the next week. And ten days later, in the middle of a three day series in a Baptist church in Adelaide, a woman came to him for counseling. He wanted to establish…
The Good Book as Good Business
For some reason there have been a number of articles in the mainstream press about the Bible business. See, in order of appearance: Publisher’s Weekly The Wall Street Journal The New Yorker
The Gospel and Islam
In this interview conducted by Mark Dever, “Pastor and author Thabiti Anyabwile describes the beliefs and history of Islam, his own experience as a Muslim, the contradictions in the Koran, as well as the way for churches to approach evangelism…
Bonding
Rodders, jealousy will be the undoing of you!
The name’s Bond
I saw the new Bond movie at the weekend. Nothing like it to make me proud to be English. After all, it just couldn’t be done by, say, the Welsh. `The name’s ap-Llymrys Jones, Gwynfor ap-Llymrys Jones’ just doesn’t cut…
Monday mornings
A dear friend from the UK told me this weekend that he’d been catching up on the Ref21 blog and noticing that we seemed to have far too much fun! Well, he is a friend and his perspective skewed as a…