If a young preacher wants to preach from the Old Testament he can easily find models. He has only to read the published expositions of Dr. Lloyd–Jones and John Stott to see master craftsmen at work in a contemporary idiom. The situation with regard to the Old Testament is quite different. It is often difficult […]
Our recent comments on the life and achievement of Dr. Martyn Lloyd–Jones have provoked less adverse reaction than we feared. However, several correspondents have written asking for clarification of one point: What did we mean by saying that in his attitude to evangelical Anglicans and to church unity the Doctor was quite simply wrong? The two […]
Among questions raised by the Pentecostal movement the most controversial of all Pentecostal claims is that proof of Holy Spirit baptism is the possession of certain charismata (spiritual gifts), especially the gift of tongues. Protestantism had traditionally taken the view that miraculous gifts ceased with the apostolic age. Edward Irving (1792–1834) asserted, however, that the […]
As long ago as 1848 Hugh Miller lamented that it had become the fashion in the Free Church to speak of preaching as “not the paramount but merely one of the subsidiary duties of the clergyman.” The trend was evident in three different connections. First, it governed attitudes to incumbent ministers. “‘He is not a […]
We are indebted to Rev. Donald MacLeod and the Monthly Record of the Free Church ofScotland of which he is the editor, for this superb analysis and answer to current attacks on the inerrancy of the Bible in traditionally evangelical Christian circles. He answers exactly the objections also raised in the CRC against the Bible’s […]
Most people today probably regard Calvinism as safely committed to those theological museums which one of our correspondents referred to last month. It can still be seen in the Confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries and in its residual influence on many aspects of our culture. But it no longer exists as a living […]
A Little Plain Talk About the Church Anyone who is no stranger in Jerusalem knows that not all things are well in the CRC of late; we seem to be more and more bent on following the example of our “mother” church in the Netherlands: women in office, children at the Lord’s Supper, soft on […]