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Scanning through much of what has been written and said about the Puritans – even by evangelicals – it is plain to see they tend to get a pretty bad press. Indeed, the name ‘Puritan’ was originally intended as a smear from the start and it remains so for many to the present. In one […]

In mid-June Billy Graham preached for three days in New York. At first this was regarded as his last stadium appearance, but family and friends are not so sure. Graham, 86, is in declining health. In addition to having Parkinson’s disease, he broke his hip last year and was forced to postpone two crusades planned […]

The 14th annual conference of the Italian Reformed publishers ‘Passaggio’ took place in Misano Adriatico between 13th and 15th May. The title of the conference was ‘The Sovereignty of God: Election and Evangelism’ and the speaker was Dr. James White of the Reformed Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, who is director of ‘Alpha and Omega […]

A minister said a church member of his was looking forward to their completed multi-million-dollar building program. She stated, “When people cross the overhead bridge coming into town, they will see a church so beautiful it will take their breath away!”When we heard this statement, the thought came immediately: “My soul! We’ve already seen that […]

“The Legacy of FRANCIS SCHAEFFER – Celebrating 50 years of L’Abri” by Gene Edward Veith was the cover story of the March 26 World. Dr. Veith the cultural editor of World, wrote: “Half a century ago, an American pastor named Francis Schaeffer opened his home in Switzerland to anyone who was struggling with the basic […]

The evangelical world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the beginning of L’Abri in Switzerland by Francis Schaeffer. At his prime, in 1984, he wrote a book called The Great Evangelical Disaster: 1934-1984 (Published by Crossway Books) in which he traced out the downgrade in evangelicalism in the fifty years preceding 1984. How similar […]

The death of Dr. Charles Krahe, Jr. on Monday, April 18, 2005, leaves a large vacancy in the ranks of the church militant. Many of us can say that we are the richer for having known him, and having had the benefit of his preaching, instruction, counsel, and friendship. Born on Long Island, Rev. Charles […]

[David Davies of Llandinam was one of the great benefactors of Victorian Wales. He was a Calvinistic Methodist elder and a generous supporter of the Forward Movement which sought to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the industrial towns and valley communities of South Wales. Though his philanthropy the University College of Wales grew. […]

“Jean-Paul Sartre, born 100 years ago on 21 June 1905, was the most striking presence in French postwar literature, and the originating cause of the left-bank culture of the Sixties. His prodigious literary gifts found expression in seminal works of philosophy, in novels, plays, stories, criticism, in a highly influential literary journal (Les Temps modernes) […]

“Enormous forces in our culture are determined to deny that Jesus was raised from the dead,” N.T. Wright, an Anglican bishop, said. “Over and over again, they use arguments that can be shown to be invalid and propose alternative scenarios which can be shown to be impossible.” Wright and John Dominic Crossan, a member of […]

“. . . since we are all tempted to some form of idolatry, it is helpful to know where we need to erect some defenses. If the rock myth does involve the tacit endorsement of pantheistic, primitivistic [this is, per the author, the noble savage idea of Jean-Jacques Rousseau] celebration of the self and the […]

I am concerned. I am very concerned about the absence of evangelistic preaching today. In many pulpits what is called evangelistic preaching is basically an appeal to non-Christians tacked on at the end of most sermons. But where are the sermons that from beginning to end are “reasoning and explaining and proving from the Scriptures […]

On June15 Miss Ruth Kelly, the British Secretary of State of Education, said that by 2010 state schools would open for breakfast at 8 a.m. and let children stay until 6 p.m. This is the editorial in the Spectator concerning this scheme. “When Ruth Kelly became Education Secretary last December, one of her female colleagues, […]

On March 3, four Royal Canadian Mounted Police were shot dead in a raid on a marijuana farm. The killer, James Roszko, turned the gun on himself. All of Canada was shocked, and at the funeral service in Edmonton on March 9 thousands of Mounties in their traditional broad-brimmed hats and scarlet tunics marched in […]

There seemed to me to be more men this year in the Evangelical Movement of Wales Ministers’ Conference than for some years – about 70 men. As always the spirit amongst us preachers in all our gatherings in the UK is loving and supportive. The main speaker was Arturo Azurdia, a pastor from north of […]