(Yes, it’s been almost two years since Part 1 but a lot has happened in the past two years which makes finishing this three-part series more opportune now than it was back in 2010. And so in the twin interests of getting more writing done on the blog and fulfilling my promise to my brother [...]

Some friends of mine are working through the Westminster Shorter Catechism as part of their Young People’s Fellowship at church and since I’ll be going along (after all, it’s 25 mins from my house), I’ve decided to get studied up for each week’s sessions. I recently purchased an Android tablet (that’s the subject of another [...]

Theology has fallen on bad times. In one sense, it always has. The image of the guy with an insanely long beard, surrounded by books, looking like my guy here… …is just not appealing to us. It’s too cerebral, too based on the brain, too intellectual. “Christianity is not intellectual, it’s faith, the heart, the [...]

As you may gather when you read this blog, I am unashamedly Reformed in my theology. I fully affirm the teaching of the Second London Baptist Confession, commonly called the 1689 Baptist Confession and its five main areas of assent with classic Christian theology (you can listen to Greg Nichols’ fine lecture on this subject, [...]

This post was written late last night in commemoration of Reformation Day 2011. Realising I attached an hour’s worth of video, I figured it would be better to post this in the afternoon when folks could benefit b It’s 10:20pm on Reformation Day. October 31, 2011. 494 years after Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to [...]

Just some thoughts…

Monergism.com, as I’ve mentioned in my previous post, is a darn well amazing site. If you don’t use it, hang your head in shame, repent and start using it LOL. I get email updates from them all the time, and I got a good one today. They featured a list of books which, after I [...]

This is the first of many posts for the month of December where I intend to write on topics presented to me via Twitter. This question was posed to me by pricechris on Twitter: How can Americans help to positively change or shape the theological landscape of Europe? Good question! My short answer is this: [...]

I like to play basketball – even though at the current time I’m still recovering from an injury and shouldn’t even be thinking of the court right now. One thing I learnt playing basketball against people who could wipe the floor with me was to not hate the player, but to hate the game (I’m [...]

Well, July 10, 2009 came and went. 500 years and 1 day  ago, Calvin was born and little did his parents know that his birth was usher in one of the finest theologians in the history of the Christian Church. Love or loathe him, no one can deny the influence that John Calvin has had [...]