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Today marks the 400th birthday of Richard Baxter. I know his systematic theology was a very modern mish-mash of much error. His practical wr...

Yesterday was the second day of the FP Theological Conference. Unfortunately, I was only able to take some summary notes of a paper by Rev. ...

If you have read much of the Puritans on the subject of sin and temptation you will be aware that often they speak of avoiding occasions of ...

This piece from Jonathan Edwards is very refreshing and illuminating. Judges 1:12-15. Concerning Othniel and Caleb’s daughter.  Othniel i...

There may be further help from a precept, promise and prayer related to distraction. "attend upon the Lord without distraction"...

Now available on all smart phone platforms: iPhone, Android, Windows, Blackberry. No install necessary. The app eliminates distractions, all...

#10 in the top ten most accessed posts on this blog is a post Long hair and feminity . A new article on www.fpchurch.org.uk Long hair for wo...

Notes excerpted from a sermon by Rev William Maclean. Psalm 9:13-14 The title of Psalm 9 means 'the death of the champion'. It i...

This concludes some cursory comments on the subject of terms of communion and visible unity. It is a matter of emphasis elsewhere in the New...

Acts 15:22-23 "Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with ...

The result of the UK General Election has taken many by surprise. Political pundits made confident forecasts. Politicians made strong assert...

we must esteem it not merely a duty but a privilege, to remind the people, that it is through having God glorified in the exercise of their...

"And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things t...

In what follows I would like to endeavour to reflect upon Acts 15 and what we can we can learn about the unity of the visible church and ter...

William Perkins said to his student preachers at the conclusion of his Arte of Prophecying, "The sum of the sum: Preach one Christ by C...

A lot of new material has been added to the now re-launched Church website. You can now find out a lot about the distinctives of the Church ...

C.S. Lewis once wrote a book  Reflections on the Psalms  but it is not very recommended reading because of his treatment of the doctrine of...

Some notes from a sermon by one of our ministers some time ago. John 20:1-8. There is much interest in the fact that John reached the grav...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Zechariah 3v9 "I...

A few sermon notes from one of the ministers. Psalm 43 v 3;4. "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring m...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 6 v5-6 "Whe...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Galatians 6v14. “But ...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 6v53 Then Jes...

Luke 23v42, 43. "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say u...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. John 3v29. "He...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Matthew 15v13: "...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Matthew 5v5: "Bl...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Psalms 51v7 "Pur...

Switzerland Reformation Tour . A tour to Geneva and other Swiss towns associated with the Reformation

As you may know 2014 marks the 500th centenary (as far as can be fairly assessed) of John Knox's birth.  On the right hand side of this ...

Mark Hausam's second post.  THE ESTABLISHMENT PRINCIPLE AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH At this point we can begin to see how the Estab...

Mark Hausam lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he is a n instructor in Philosophy at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT, and an instr...

...it's hard for me to think those words without hearing my son saying them as 7 syllables with emphasis. He seems to have picked up som...

A quick google shows me that this is not an original observation but here goes anyway. Jim Elliot had a great quote: He is no fool, wh...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Philippians 3 v 8-10,...

The following notes are fragments from a sermon preached by one of our ministers some years ago on the text "What think ye of Christ?...

Notoriously, Jeanette Winterson is no friend to the evangelicalism that she grew up with. But as she explained on  Start the Week  and here...