In a review of the book by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom, Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism, Scott Manetsch writes:
“Now more than ever, there is urgent need for evangelical Protestants in North America to ‘protest’ against theological superficiality, to eschew cultural faddishness and myopic presentism, and recover their historical [...]
Trevin Wax gives a Reformed perspective on the Marburg Colloquy, a significant moment in the Reformation when Luther and Zwingli debated the Lord’s Supper.
All of the biographical sketches that John Piper has done over the years have been outstanding, but this last one was especially interesting because he talked about his father, Bill Piper, who was an evangelist. There are lots of theological insights and interesting tidbits in the piece, but here is one of my favorite quotes [...]
In his review of the book Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian McLaren, John Nelson detects an ahistorical view of church history in McLaren. From my perspective this view continues to be quite prominent in Christian circles even beyond evangelical and fundamentalist.
Here is the point made by Books [...]
In his book, Ecclesiastical History of New-England (originally published in 1702) Cotton Mather, describes William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony in this way:
“He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the [...]
Since today is Reformation Day, I thought it would only be appropriate to have a post devoted to Martin Luther. The following quotation comes from a wonderful presentation John Piper did about Martin Luther at the 1996 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors.
To read, listen or download the entire message go HERE.
“Luther dates the great discovery [...]
I know The Da Vinci Code is old news, but while sorting through papers in my study I came across this column I wrote last year for the the local newspaper. It caught my eye because I just finished teaching an adult Bible study class on the canon of Scriptures, and in that class we [...]
There has been a very interesting and important theological discussion going on among some significant Reformed writers about credobaptism (the doctrine that Christian baptism should be reserved for believers), paedobaptism (the baptism of infants), the Lord’s Supper and Church membership.
These men are wrestling with how to properly and practically balance doctrinal purity and truth [...]
The following comes from a post last year by Sean Lucas where he talks about preaching law and gospel to motivate people to holiness:
“There is a very interesting discussion going on at the Reformation 21 blog on why it is so much easier for preachers to motivate people to holiness by railing at their sin than by [...]
This is Part 2 of 6 of a quotation from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. He examines six different ways that Satan assaults believers:
Satan’s Second Assault
If Satan tells you that you have no faith because you have no [...]
