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Romans: The Divine Marriage
This new biblical theological commentary on Paul’s greatest letter is a most important work by a long-time lecturer at WEST. It represents the fruit of many years’ profound scholarship and familiarity not only with Paul, but [...]
Pentecost: a great and unique day
Did you know that 27 May this year will be Pentecost? We all know the date of Christmas, and the date of Easter usually dawns on us some time during April. If someone told us that [...]
Our transcendent God
What goes through your mind when you think about God? There is no better subject to which you can give your attention, and there are few questions that will reveal so much about you. In my [...]
John MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock
When this book first landed on my desk I picked it up with a strange combination of eagerness and hesitation. Eagerness, because anything written by Iain Murray is bound to be serious and important as well [...]
Blessed are the pure in heart
Many of the ordinary, everyday things we do result in a mess, and a large part of our lives is spent in trying to keep things clean, or make them pure. How many of the items [...]
The summer of 2011
Albanian summer It’s 9am and I’m already sweltering. I’m teaching an English lesson to a group of intelligent, eloquent sixteen to twenty-year-olds. Aware of Albania’s deeply corrupt school system (one boy said ‘I don’t work at all, but [...]
Test, train, affirm, & send into ministry
This little book – which can be read quite comfortably in a single sitting if you are undisturbed – challenges a number of assumptions that many Christians make about the call to the pastoral ministry. It [...]
Why should I go to church?
Are you personally committed to following Jesus Christ? And are you personally committed to a specific congregation? If your answer to the first question is ‘yes’, then your answer to the second question ought to be [...]
Called to be… vulnerable?
What are some of the qualities you most admire and appreciate in other people? Stop and think for a few moments. We can easily come up with a number of suggestions. A roaring sense of humour, [...]
Heaven and Hell
Edward Donnelly’s wonderful preaching gifts translate very naturally into the printed word, and in this book he addresses the most ultimate subjects which any of us could consider. The opening four chapters deal squarely with the [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou