William Olney and Joseph Passmore were deacons for many years at London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle during the pastorate of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. They helped to restore the office of the diaconate to its original Biblical basis: serving for the poor….
Gospel Etymology
Just a little while ago a friend asked me to define “the gospel.” He was prepping for a Sunday School class and wanted a good, succinct definition that he could use.Instead of immediately thinking of the best doctrinal formulation, my mind recalled th…
Fiercer Delight and Fiercer Discontent
“For our titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the old acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a…
Reagan at 100: Favorite Books
1. Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, by Ronald Reagan: While nearly everyone else seems to be focusing on books about Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth, I am much more interested in books by Ronald Reagan. And though there …
Schaeffer at 99: Favorite Books
1. Two Contents, Two Realities OK. So, technically this is not so much a book as a booklet. But, it has been a tremendous influence in the shaping of my credo. 2. How Should We then Live? This one book (and then later, the accompanying film series) h…
38 Years of Roe
In perhaps its most divisive and controversial decision since Dred Scott, the Supreme Court overturned the infanticide and homicide laws in abortion cases in all fifty states by legalizing child-killing procedures from the moment of conception until ju…
Reformed, Ever-Reforming
“All the misery of the Presbyterian churches is owing to their striving to consider the Reformation as completed, and to allow no further development of what has been begun by the labor of the Reformers … Calvinism wishes no cessation of progress and…
The Fundamentals
Beginning in 1910, a group of the most influential Evangelical Christian scholars and leaders began publishing a series of essays intended to defend Biblical orthodoxy against Modernist unbelief. By 1911, the essays began to be collected into hardback…
Faith Comes by Hearing
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).”All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughl…
Dympna of Gheel
Dympna Caelrhynn was born near the end of the eighth century, the eldest daughter of a heathen Celtic prince, Eadburh. When she was still just a child, her beloved Christian mother was claimed by a plague. Apparently stricken mad with grief, Eadburh …