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It’s here, John Piper’s new book A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness. Read a sample by clicking here. But purchase the book by CLICKING HERE. TOC: PART 1 A Place to Stand “. . . the Lord revealed himself by the word of the Lord” 1 My Story: Held by the Bible . . .

This years GPTS conference is on the theme “Marriage, Family, and Sexuality.” Below is the list of topics and speakers: u>Tuesday, March 8 “God’s Design for Marriage” Dr. Joseph Pipa, Jr. “Gay Marriage: Right or Wrong” Mr. Gary Bates *7-8:30pm (EDT) “The Maker’s Instructions” Dr. Ian Hamilton Wednesday, March 9 “Nurturing Sexual Intimacy in Marriage” Dr. Joel Beeke “Free at

If you have not listened to Pastor Ian Hamiliton’s message from this year’s Ligonier Conference, “Chosen in Christ: God’s Eternal Plan of Redemption” I would encourage you to do so. Click on the title to listen: Chosen in Christ: God’s Eternal Plan of Redemption. “Few subjects provoke debate like the doctrine of election. As a result, many struggle to see

“Why Keep the Old (Testament) When We Have the New (Testament)?” was the question that Dr. Benjamin Shaw answered during the second Learning at Lebanon Seminar held today at Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Abbeville, SC. The audio is now online: The seminar for next month will be on March 26 with Mr. Dustin Segers addressing, “Man Cannot Live Without God: or

This is going to be a good year for readers of reformed works, especially as it relates to the Bible. I simply want to make you aware of three books that are coming out this year. A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: The Gospel Promised, Edited by Miles V. Van Pelt. Due out May 31, 2016. Description: The Old

I (Jeff) recently started teaching apologetics to the youth at the church I pastor (Lebanon Presbyterian Church), in South Carolina. Obviously I hope that the material sticks with the youth for the rest of their lives. I believe the best way to learn a subject, or even to teach a subject is by way of the Trivium. Trivium means, three

I am sitting at the gate in Kiev waiting to board a bus to take us to our plane for the flight from here to Zurich.  I have to over-night there, as there just isn’t a flight set up that would get me from here to home in one shot.  So, a long, long trip home, to be sure! So

“I was glad when the said to me, ‘let us go to the house of the Lord.'” (Psalm 122:1) Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, on Saturday, August 23, 2015 I will be ordained to the gospel ministry and installed as pastor at Lebanon Presbyterian Church (PCA), Abbeville, SC. I’m not expecting any of our readers to attend this

I opened my Email this morning to discover a new video series produced by Ligonier Ministries. What excited me is the fact that Ian Hamilton is the feature lecturer. Dr. Hamilton is the author of Let’s Study the Letters of John among other book. He is also the pastor at Cambridge Presbyterian Church in the UK and on the board

Jesus says of Himself in Luke 24:44, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that All things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Luke 24:27 says, “And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them

If you are looking for an easy to read systematic theology, Vos is not what you want. But, if you are looking for a good solid systematic that will stretch you, for now, look no further than the new Reformed Dogmatics by Geerhardus Vos, translated by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. The three volumes that are available are on sale this

Brand new hardback, re-typeset, Smyth-sewn biding of James Bannerman’s The Church of Christ is now available for $40 until May 7. Check out 18 pages of the book by clicking here. Publisher description: The New Testament places the church at the centre of its practical vision of the Christian life and at the heart of the Great Commission. A church-less

Some quick thoughts on a particular aspect of the Qureshi/Ally debate (and a few other topics thrown in for good measure).

This week Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is holding their annual conference (March 10-12, 2015). The theme of this year’s conference is The Law of God in a Lawless Age. Here is the scheduled: Tuesday, March 10 1:15 – 2:30 – New Covenant Theology & The Law of God: Views, Critiques, Proposals Dr. Richard Barcellos – Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist

I will be filling in for Janet Mefferd today and Wednesday, 2-5pm on the Salem Network. Tune in!

MuslimByChoice posted a video on YouTube three years ago titled, “Dr. James White called Robert Morey “STUPID”, “DUMB” AND “FOOLISH” on his Radio Show!!”  Here is the video: Now, of course, what I did was call a particular statement stupid, dumb and foolish—and yes, Bob Morey made the statement.  In fact, as you listen to the clip (all the video

“They supplicate what they worship and die upon their paganism.” These are the subtitled words shown in the 5 minute ISIS video right as they are showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians on the shore in Libya.  At the most gruesome point of the explicit video, as men kneeling on the backs of their victims are literally sawing through

Well, we got back into the Holiness Code series at PRBC yesterday.  The morning sermon was preparatory to the evening.  I wanted to lay a foundation for the specific laws given in Leviticus 18:6-23, and I also wanted to give folks a warning about the subject matter of the next section we were going to hit.  Of course, these verses