Gairney Bridge

I attended a preaching conference/workshop in the Chicago area May of last year, which (of course) meant I had to take a trip by the obligatory book table (we all know that conferences and such are just covert means of selling huge quantities of books to pastors — as I was once jokingly told by […]

Because my wife and I live in a new subdivision, we frequently get mailings (and sometimes bags hung on our front door) from “new” churches in the local area (not that anyone has actually bothered to stop and knock on our door — aside from two Mormon missionaries, but that is another story for another […]

We get a few church direct mailings now and then, but the following beauty came in the mail last week:

It’s hard to compete with cajun food, Ipods, pony rides, and Starbucks coffee, I will admit. I did find this statement on the other side of the card, so as to clear up any confusion: “Highlands […]

Yesterday in the mail I received the latest edition of Tolle Lege (”pick up and read”), the book catalog of Reformation Heritage Books. On the cover was a short article entitled “A Condescending God.” I have always loved that term “condescending”, even though the meaning has morphed somewhat in our modern culture. The author of […]

Just what everyone in the Reformed community wants to talk about!
I was reading the January 2007 issue of Banner of Truth this morning, and I found the comments on the reformation of worship in 16th century Protestantism to be very interesting (e.g., did you know that Zwingli prohibited congregational singing during worship services?!?).
The comments of […]