We have recently been discovering that a lot of people don’t even know that Credenda comes out in an audio version. In part you might not know because you don’t get Canon’s e-newsletter, and if that is the case then you also missed out on a big giveaway. The e-postcard they sent to subscribers the …
AntiChrist and Beast
Few teachings in the Bible have been as wildly misunderstood as the teaching of the apostle John on the Antichrist. Opinions and speculation about him are commonplace. Unfortunately, the assumptions made about Antichrist are usually far away from the actual teaching of the Bible on the subject. “Little children, it is the last hour; and …
The Puritan Heart Set Free
“In theological language, no man can be saved by works. The whole purpose of the ‘gospel’, for Tyndale, is to deliver us from morality. Thus, paradoxically, the ‘puritan’ of modern imagination — the cold, gloomy heart, doing as duty what happier and richer souls do without thinking of it — is precisely the enemy which …
Get a Bit and Bridle on Your Gifts
“Watch your natural gifts and tendencies and idiosyncrasies. Watch them. What I mean is that they will tend to run away with you. It can all be summed up in a phrase — watch your strength. Not so much your weaknesses: it is your strength you have to watch, the things at which you excel, …
Not Like Changing Denominations
“The most dangerous thing a Muslim can do is leave Islam—no matter what the reason” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 59).
And They Think That We Have a Thing About Sex
“Ripley then takes off her clothes, and as soon as she does so the Alien reappears. Here we have the truncated causality of the horror genre. As in The Bacchae, The Blob, Blood Feast, Slumber Party Massacre, and countless other examples, as soon as an attractive young woman removes any article of clothing a monster …
Love Not the Vanishing World
The world, taken in one sense, is one of the three great adversaries of the Christian. The three adversaries are, respectively, the world, the flesh, and the devil. All three are found in this passage. “. . . And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will …
God Loves a Cheerful Worshipper
“I have always opposed the idea of trying to force people to attend church services; w hat I am saying is that our preaching ought to fill them with a desire to do this. You should not have to whip them up to do it” (Lloyd-Jones, Preachers and Preaching, p. 252).
Disposable Human Rights
“Islam says that human rights are unnecessary because they are also a man-made idea that is not found in the Quran” (Mark Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism, p. 55).
Souls of Rejected Children
“The womb was scraped clean, but the fetus instead of disappearing simply changed its place of residence. Once it was prevented from growing in her womb, it started growing in her mind, a troubled conscience that could not be repressed . . . The monsters that haunt . . . are the souls of the …