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Milestones in the sexual revolution

Milestones in the sexual revolution

Footage of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 makes fascinating viewing. How Britain, and the world, has changed over six decades! Clothes, cars, shops, speech – all these, and more, were so very different back then. And, [...]

‘As Christ loved the church’ – the model for every husband

‘As Christ loved the church’ – the model for every husband

It is a fair bet that if you have recently been to a Christian wedding, one of the readings will have been taken from Ephesians 5:22-33. This section of Paul’s teaching is, of course, intensely practical [...]

Romans: The Divine Marriage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 [...]