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“Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing” (Ps. 100:2). First, you must know that singing is not a neutral mat...

Significant resources are expended (sometimes controversially) in the promotion and hoped revival of Gaidhlig in Scotland. The observation ...

This paper responds to a brief document entitled " Reformed Scottish Presbyterianism: Reunion in the 21st Century? " prepared an...

A word cloud of the text of Samuel Rutherford: An Introduction to His Theology  (see table of contents below). This book can now be purc...

A valuable little blog called  Footsteps  is establishing an excellent resource to "support young people who respect the Bible and wa...

ON MR. G. HERBERT'S BOOK INTITLED THE TEMPLE OF SACRED POEMS, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN Richard Crashaw (1613?–49) Know you fair, on wh...

"Ye that are the people of God, do not weary in maintaining the testimony of the day, in your stations and places; and whatever you do,...

The Lord hath removed  Scotland’s crown, for we owned not His crown... Our gold is become dim, the visage of our Nazarites is become black,...

I hesitate to correct a correction to a factual error in the review recently posted  since we appreciate the suggestion that the extracts in...

The King in His Beauty: the Piety of Samuel Rutherford.  Ed.  Matthew Vogan. 184pp. N.P. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-60178-125-3.  This selection from...

A new blog Assert, Maintain, Defend gives Analysis and Comment from the Religion and Morals Committee of the Free Presbyterian Church of Sc...

Samuel Rutherford was perhaps the most influential religious writer in post-Reformation Scotland. He is famous for his Letters but his t...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's recent sermon on the Jubilee thanksgiving was a rather depressing exercise in pulling down the spiritual...

On 26 May 1892, the Free Church General Assembly passed the Declaratory Act anent the Confession of Faith. (For previous posts in this serie...

Schools in England will be sent copies of the King James Bible from this week to mark its 400th anniversary. Every state primary and seconda...

A recent blog post counts up 11 Presbyterian denominations in Scotland. Another blog analyses shrewdly the reasons for this. Should we ...

David Dickson commenting on Psalm 47:9 shows that the visible Church can, should and will be one in its government throughout the world. ...

The debate in 1892 around the Declaratory Act related to its constitutional nature. This is well discussed in an anonymous letter to the Gl...

declamatory  (dɪˈklæmətərɪ) merely rhetorical; empty and bombastic The above is a good definition of the Free Church Declaratory Ac...

See previous post .  'A line of praise is worth a leaf of prayer, an hour of praise is worth a day of fasting and mourning'  - John ...

"Faith looks for acceptance to nothing in itself, but goes quite out of a man's self, and rests upon the merits and death of Christ...

The gospels give us biographies of the Lord Jesus Christ but with the exception of the Servant Songs of Isaiah it is only really the Book of...

This booklet is intended for all who are concerned for the glory and honour of God. The praise of God is a vitally important means of glori...

Something re: singing of praise before too long but for now... From the Body of Practical Divinity by theologian John Gill (1697-1771): ...

The Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal contains articles on Scottish Church history written from an evangelical perspective. Su...

"Vice first is pleasing; then it grows easily; then delightful; then frequent; then habitual; then confirmed; then the man is impeniten...

It's incredible to me that I managed to work through any book from cover to cover last year (beside books for toddlers) - a top 10 would...

We are not to ask such a question as that: “What have we to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God?” (Matt. 8. 29). This is the language of th...

22 December is the shortest day in 2011, when the hours of sunlight are fewest and the sun follows its lowest arc through the sky.  Our life...

...on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning (just prior to the 8am news). The discussion involved Ian McEwan and Dennis McShane lau...

We are not to ask such a question as that: “Who will shew us any good?” though there be many that say so (Psa. 4. 6). This is the question o...

We are not to ask Him such a question as that: “Where is the promise of His coming?” (2 Pet. 3. 4). This is the language of the graceless an...

It is not safe to ask such a question as that: “Lord, and what shall this man do?” (John 21. 21). Some that are attached to a respect of per...

What is this Book which has been enthroned so high above all other literature and is the crowned queen among the grandest works of the ages?...