Last year I posted two items concerning Reformation Day and our need for a new Reformation. This year let me look more towards the idea of All Saints Day. I am not big on an official liturgical calendar, but it is right for us to pause to consider the great cloud of witnesses that have [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
The Letters of Geerhardus Vos, A Review
Letters of Geerhardus Vos , ed. James T. Dennison(P&R Publishing, 2005), hb., 274 pp. This is an interesting book. Before reading it I knew of Vos as a key figure in the development of biblical theology, but I knew little else. I was drawn to the book precisely because I knew little about him, because [...]
Shelf Life, an Encouragement to Read
Following on from the previous post on reading, let me strongly recommend a little book by George and Karen Grant entitled Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of Men and Nations . This book is not a sustained treatise on the need for reading but a reflection on the value and [...]
William of Orange, The Silent Prince
William of Orange, The Silent Prince, by W. G. Van de Hulst(trans. From Dutch; Inheritance Publications, 1992, 1996, 2000), pb., 142 pp. We finished this book about 5 weeks ago, but I have been waiting to be able to write a good review. Time never comes though, so I will make my best attempt. This [...]
Spurgeon on the Need to Read
Check out the Spurgeon quote posted by Justin Taylor. This is another great statement on the value and importance of reading. Here’s a piece of the quote: How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants [...]
Andrew Blackwood on Revivalism
Here is another selection from the same Blackwood piece. His critique is probably not new to most. What I found interesting is thathe was saying this 50 years ago. Furthermore, the eccentric methods he describes have often found their way into our regular meetings today. We desperately need to be reminded that God does not [...]
Andrew Blackwood on Outreach
I recently stumbled across an essay by Andrew Blackwood entitled “Evangelism and Preaching.†It was in an older book edited by Carl F. H. Henry, Contemporary Evangelical Thought (1957). I had only seen Blackwood’s name in passing and simply knew he was a popular author in the area of pastoral ministry from that time period. [...]
C S Lewis on Fairy Tales
Earlier I posted on some of C. S. Lewis’s comments on children’s literature. Here is another quote from the same book (On Stories: And Other Essays on LiteratureOn Stories: And Other Essays on Literature). I resonate with this quote. “By confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming [...]
God at Work, Even When We Can’t Se It
Anyone who has preached much knows the agony of it. Hopefully you know the ecstasy as well, but there is often a hollowness that I feel after preaching. You have just laid out your heart with all the earnestness you have, and as you sit down you are painfully aware of the inadequacy of your [...]
The Secret Mission, another Huguenot Tale
The Secret Mission: A Huguenot’s Dangerous Adventures in the Land of Persecution, by A. Van der Jagt (Inheritance Publications, 1992), pb., 187 pp. This is the sequel to The Escape, which I have reviewed previously. We enjoyed this sequel as much as we did the original. In this one, John and Manette have settled into [...]
