Articles

It is a remarkable thing to note that after all of the centuries mankind has had to sin, the way men deal with their sins has never changed. The first man, Adam, foolishly tried to conceal his shame, his sin, and even himself from the Lord. His fig-leaf covering was first applied in a feeble […]

1. The Christian Gospel Is for Bad People The Bible says “Christ died for the ungodly, Christ died for sinners, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” (ROMANS 5:6; I TIMOTHY 1:15) 2. Some Men Think They Are So Good They Have No Need of Jesus Christ “There is a generation that is […]

With the collapse of Communism in the former Soviet Union in 1989 there began a brief period of religious freedom coupled with a popular interest in all things Western. The old Soviet order was thoroughly discredited and the Russian people hoped that the coming of democracy and private enterprise would usher in a new dawn […]

The great mission of our Saviour’s church is evangelical – we are to go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Too often the church has strayed from its God-given mission and drifted into a “social gospel,” behaving as […]

In one of his books, R. C. Sproul discusses the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. In the course of his discussion, he states that this relationship is a mystery but not a contradiction. That is, it is a mystery to us but not a contradiction in itself. This is bound to be so; […]

Somewhere in the personal library of the new Pope, Benedict XVI, is a leather-bound copy of Calvin’s Institutes, and (surprisingly) a copy of my article, “1 Corinthians 15:8: Paul, the Last Apostle.” In the hundreds of stories that will appear about the new pope, this trivial fact will not appear. In 1988, representatives from the […]

Words from a pop star who died many years ago. Words which are very poignant today: “Who wants to live forever?” According to my Bible, God planted eternity in the heart of men . . . or did He? Why are we so obsessed with living forever . . . not growing old? Millions are […]

The Counter Reformation commenced formally with the Council of Trent (1551-1563), and continued through the First (1869-1870) and Second (1962-1965) Vatican Councils. It is represented today by the less formal Anglican/ Roman Catholic International Commissions (ARCIC). Though these Commissions do not speak with ecclesiastical authority, members are appointed by the Vatican and the Archbishop of […]

Growing calls for infant euthanasia in the Netherlands provide a chilling glimpse of what could happen in the UK if eugenicists and euthanasiasts like Lady Warnock get their way. The Netherlands has the most liberal laws on euthanasia in the world. Voluntary euthanasia was legalised in 2001 for people over 12 suffering hopelessly and unbearably […]

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 […]

A conference on justification was arranged by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s Christian Education Committee of the Presbytery of the Midwest on March 17 in Des Moines, Indiana, USA. The handout of the Committee stated that some voices were calling for a “new perspective on Paul” because the Reformed Church had misunderstood what Paul said about […]