At our church, we sing loudly, with microphones and speakers. Some churches we met in this book must sing quietly so they won’t be heard by neighbours and reported to the authorities.
Within conservative evangelical Protestantism, we have to acknowledge the complexities that exist in thinking about the Bible. Any honest treatment of these realities will raise questions around the Septuagint.
The mental picture of this precious woman sobbing uncontrollably in a hospital bed after receiving the treatment she was convinced she wanted is one that will stay with me for a long time.
While Carl Trueman discourages any direct comparisons to C.S. Lewis and his book The Abolition of Man, it is not hard to see why many do make that comparison. Trueman, in the opinion of this reviewer, is serving the church in a similar way as Lewis did, helping us make sense of the world around us in times of great social upheaval. Christians in every age need to understand how, why, and towards what the culture’s moral intuitions are changing. Trueman borrows the term social imaginary to describe those intuitions. At the root of the change, as Trueman has described...
The cloud of witnesses from church history are role models who help us “run with endurance the race that lies before us” (Heb 12:1). For me personally, the life and writings of ordinary yet remarkable Christians have been a well of refreshment and nourishment. The 18th Century, for example, furnishes us with several godly role models, including the evangelistic zeal of George Whitefield and John Wesley; the theological precision of John Gill; the God-centeredness of Jonathan Edwards; and the warm pastoral and fatherly wisdom in the letters of John Newton. Sometimes, however, for people not in pastoral ministry or missions...
