'Japanese Maple' is an achingly beautiful poem, worthy of reflection, by Clive James. I'm reminded of Martyn Lloyd-Jones...

The inimitable Luther on true theologians: For as soon as God's Word takes root and grows in you, the Devil will harry you and will...

Packer wrote the following gem about Luther's approach to doing theology: When Martin Luther wrote the Preface to the first collect...

Here's some clear thinking to straighten out any wonky thoughts about the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son of God: Her...

I'm re-reading Mike Horton's tome  The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims On the Way  (a mere 990 pages if one c...

Here are some fascinating extracts from the closing chapters of Claire Tomalin's biography of Thomas Hardy: On Boxing Day [1927] he...

Before I learned to swim I would always look for the shallow end of the pool.  When it comes to the doctrine of God there is no shallow e...

A minimal framework for Trinitarian belief would include the following affirmations: A. There is only one God B. There are three distinc...

Enjoy the summary of the biblical teaching about the ascension of Christ in the Heidelberg Catechism: 46. What do you understand by the...

As a teen the great English novelist Thomas Hardy was friendly with the Moule family and their seven impressive sons.  Mr Moule was vicar...

"What has Providence done to Mr Hardy that he should rise up in the arable land of Wessex and shake his fist at his Creator?...

In his prodigious volume A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters , Andreas Kostenberger has the following helpful schema for biblical...

The first question of the Heidelberg Catechism views the atoning work of Christ as dealing with the satisfaction made for all our sins (p...

I n order to establish the doctrine of penal substitution we are not dependent on a few isolated proof-texts here and there in Scripture....

One from the archives: The columnist Polly Toynbee wrote an article in  The Guardian  on 5th December 2005 with the rather acerbic titl...