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March 2006

March 16, 2006

Blogging the Gifts – The Word of Knowledge

I have spent more than thirty years of my life in charismatic churches, and these...

March 13, 2006

2000 posts and a big thank you to The Doctor

This is the 2000th post on this blog, which means that I have been posting...

March 07, 2006

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the vital place of joy in the Holy Spirit

I am not feeling well today, so am not going to be able to produce...

February 2006

February 28, 2006

links for 2006-02-28 God or Not The carnival where atheists and theists interact is now...

February 26, 2006

Entrusted with a job

This morning I preached on stewardship - here are my notes, the audio is also...

February 09, 2006

Is Mark Dever an Apostle?

I received another great e-mail question today:I became interested in your blog when I found...

February 02, 2006

Adrian interviews Tim Challies

Adrian It is my great privilege and delight to welcome to the blog today Tim...

February 01, 2006

links for 2006-02-01 Terry Virgo on personal prayer, church growth and preaching Top quote: "If...

January 2006

January 30, 2006

Adrian Interviews Mark Dever

UPDATEIn January 2008, the following post was identified as the 21st all-time most popular post...

January 29, 2006

Prayer works when life is good

This morning I preached at Jubilee, and the audio is now available to download. I...

January 25, 2006

Mark Dever preaching near London THIS sunday!

The Together for the gospel guys are fast becoming heroes of mine both individually and...

January 16, 2006

The church intentionally gathered, not emerging!

Michael Spencer writes to explain why he shouldnt be considered emerging, and in the process...

December 2005

December 31, 2005

Jack Deere on cessationism

I just found an interesting article on TheHeresy.com described as being by Jack Deere: "No...

December 30, 2005

The year in review

Its that time of the year when we look back, get all misty eyed and...

November 2005

November 13, 2005

Phil's true feelings on the charismatic unmasked…..

Phil Johnson is trying to act all coy over on his blog about what he...

November 06, 2005

God or Not? Can we provide proof to those we disagree with? GOD or NOT carnival entry

I am hoping that I might be able to sneak this post into the second...

October 2005

October 23, 2005

The Marks of a Spiritual Leader by John Piper

The Marks of a Spiritual Leader is another outstanding article by John Piper. There is...

October 16, 2005

Good News When Feeling Rejected – blogging through Galatians

My next sermon in the series on Galatians is now available to listen to online...

August 2005

August 10, 2005

Galatians challenge – a reader rises to the task

Had an interesting email that I have permission to publish from one of my readers...

July 2005

July 19, 2005

Blog interview with Nancy Pearcey, award-winning author of Total Truth

Nancy Pearcy has recently received the ECPA Gold Medallion award for her book Total Truth:...

July 13, 2005

Did Paul meet Jesus when he was on earth?

All my Christian life people have told me Paul never met Jesus during his ministry....

June 2005

June 30, 2005

ESV: its all Greek to me!

It is possible that a generation of preachers may grow up relying on the great...

June 10, 2005

Pop over and say something kind to iMonk right now!

I hadnt even finished my post recommending soemthing from iMonk's site when I received something...

June 05, 2005

Open Theism- just another form of neo-liberalism?

Sean does a great job of defining and dispatching open theism in one post. To...

June 02, 2005

Phillip Johnson hits the ground running- curator of spurgeon.org now has a blog

Phillip Johnsons is one of the heroes of the internet. He is the man that...

May 2005

May 15, 2005

What was the Toronto Blessing: Move of Holy Spirit or fraud?

The Toronto Blessing was rejected by some as crazy charismatics acting in bizarre ways. Some...

March 2005

March 20, 2005

Sermon inspired (at least in part) by Daniel Bedingfield

Well, I was at a great concert on Friday by Daniel Bedingfield and ended up...

March 15, 2005

UK Evangelical Alliance changes its basis of faith or doctrinal statement : neo-liberals watch out!

In the category of things that slip you by, the UK EA last month announced...

January 2005

January 06, 2005

"Our understandings of the gospel constantly change" Brian McLaren

In the second foreword to Dan Kimballs book about the Emergent church Brian McLaren writes...

January 02, 2005

Nancy Pearcy's book has a chapter online for us to read. I am so going...