From the category archives:

1 and 2 Timothy

Piper What the New Birth Does For Us

December 12, 2008

John Piper is a great preacher—not just to listen to, but also to watch. I find God stirring my heart through him every time I play one of his videos. It also reminds me of what I’m aiming for when I preach, which is “logic on fire.” I pray that God will draw many into [...]

Read the full article →

Mark Driscoll on Qualifications of a Church Leader

February 27, 2008

I had planned on an early night tonight! However, despite my best intentions, this session looks like it will keep me up late once more tonight. I may duck out half way through if I can’t keep my eyes open.
Driscoll began by claiming that, statistically, the only variable that makes a difference to the life [...]

Read the full article →

My First Week Without Comments

November 29, 2007

It is now almost a week since I made the decision to stop comments here on the blog. In the next few days I will also be deleting all the old ones. I have to say that, so far, I have not missed them. It’s not so much that I don’t want interaction with my [...]

Read the full article →

Theology for All – Mark Dever in the UK

October 2, 2007

Last month Mark Dever was on tour. In the middle of central London, somewhere off Picadilly in a large church—complete with organ—I sat with a gathering of church leaders and others eager to hear Mark speak. (OK, so it’s been a long time since I sang a hymn to an organ!) Anyway, Mark began the [...]

Read the full article →

An Overview of 1 Timothy

July 11, 2006

Thought I would share some brief notes and highlights from 1 Timothy 1-6. This is based on what I underlined and wrote in the margins of my lovely new Bible. These are the things that stood out as I was reading.
Verse 3 – “charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrines” – perhaps certain [...]

Read the full article →

Scripture Cannot Be Broken – T4G Statement

June 8, 2006

The Authority and Inerrancy of the Bible T4G Statement, Articles I and II

Article IWe affirm that the sole authority for the Church is the Bible, verbally inspired, inerrant, infallible, and totally sufficient and trustworthy.
We deny that the Bible is a mere witness to the divine revelation, or that any portion of Scripture is marked by [...]

Read the full article →

T4G – What’s the Big Deal About Women Elders?

May 31, 2006

Mark Dever has a great post over at the T4G blog which hammers home their reasons for prioritising the complementarianism versus egalitarianism issue in their statement. You might feel that the issue of whether or not women should hold the position of elder is a relatively minor point of theology. These guys clearly do not! [...]

Read the full article →

INTERVIEW – Josh Harris On Being Discipled by C. J. Mahaney

December 20, 2005

UPDATE
In January of 2008, the following post was identified as the 29th most widely read post on this blog. The 30th most-read post was “How to Use the Google Calendar.”
This is the first of several interviews that appeared in the top-30 list. In this interview I talked with Josh Harris about being discipled [...]

Read the full article →

2 Tim 3 and the primacy of preaching

April 20, 2005

Todays McCheyne reading from 2 Tim 3:
“10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued [...]

Read the full article →