holdfast

Every so often the vexed question of Sabbath public transport raises its head. It's not always clear why since it is very clearly contr...

A debate exists among Presbyterians as to whether baptism or not ought only to administered to the children of parents who are communicant ...

You can now purchase Volume 3 of the Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal and previous volumes  here . Contents of Volume 3 ...

Virginia is for Huguenots: Willison's Recommended Sabbath Reading : John Willison  (1680-1750), Church of Scotland minister, has the fol...

A crystal clear warning from Rev. David Campbell, Convener of the Religion and Morals Committee of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland ...

The principles of the presbyterian view of unity and schism were firmly applied in 1893. The fathers of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scot...

This post also appears on www.ourconfession.org - a n online meeting place for folk who profess to be reformed in doctrine, worship and pr...

“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...