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"One day when he [Samuel Rutherford] was preaching in Edinburgh," says Robert Woodrow, "after dwelling for some time on the d...

Although Carl Trueman seems to have a more shrewd insight into what makes the Church of Scotland evangelical tick, several Free Church mini...

This is what is behind the accurate Scotsman headline 'Kirk orders ban on gay minister debate'. Evangelicals adhere to what the ordi...

This is an addition to the previous post commenting on the recent debate.   What we see is that when Scripture is abandoned, all wisdom an...

says Alyson Thomson, head of communications, "it is a modern church for a modern Scotland. The commission is delighted that the Church ...

As many wait to see what the Church of Scotland will make of biblical morality at the end of this week there are other indications of a down...

Apparently it was Aristotle who coined the phrase 'the art of living well'. He said that 'those who educate children well are mo...

This is the title of a conference to be held later this year: Scotland's Global Impact - How one small nation changed the world! There ...

Keeping a spiritual diary is a practice that has often appeared wherever puritan piety is found. John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim in the The C...

The Larger Catechism asks the question Question 191: What do we pray for in the second petition [of the Lord's prayer]? Answer: In the s...

Scotland has had an influence in spiritual terms far beyond its size. The Scottish Church was the fairest daughter of the Reformation. The n...

The previous post re:Israel and the Church should be understood from the right perspective and we trust that this was reasonably clear. Ther...

What is the Church? To ask this question is almost to ask a similar question concerning God's kingship and kingdom. God is king over all...

Erastianism is the idea that there is no distinction between the church and state in a Christian state but that the head of the state is the...

Time magazine's photo essay on "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals"  is distinguished by people that really aren't evan...

Love and hatred are not faults in themselves, it is what you hate or love that matters, so aince let the object of these affections be right...

What makes a contemporary English Bible? It is widely presumed that this is an easy and straightforward question to answer: a contemporary v...

Samuel Rutherford gives these reasons in his A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons . if permitting sin had not been, 1) T...