Biographical

This morning my wife and I, during our breakfast devotions, read the second half of Philippians 1. One stand-out statement is Paul’s great line, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” In 1763 it was on this text that Henry Venn preached at the funeral of William Grimshaw, whose 300th anniversary will shortly be celebrated. […]

In his commentary on 1 & 2 Samuel Bill Arnold relates what happened to French philosopher Emile Cailliet. During World War 1, as a 20-year old youth, he was confronted with the horrors of war. He asked:
What use, the ill-kept ancient type of sophistry in the philosophic banter of the seminar, when your buddy - […]

Christians sometimes make the error of trying to effect spiritual reform by structural change. So we tinker with the format and content of church services. We might try to change denominational church laws by way of trying to entrench practices which we believe presuppose sounder biblical theology, hoping that by so doing the denomination will become […]