December 12, 2019
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, In his book "Old Paths," J.C. Ryle describes three ways a person can ruin his or her soul, this being the third: "For another thing, you may starve your soul to death by triflin...
June 24, 2019
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, The NCFIC has published a great copy of the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, and in the preface of Chapter 22, "Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day," this phenomen...
May 7, 2019
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, If you want the full version - which is the best version - you can read it here. But if you aren't ready to invest that amount of time at the moment, here is a summary of how J....
April 9, 2019
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, What do I mean by "a bygone definition"? That what "evangelical" means today is very different than what it meant more than a century ago. To make the point, I offer the first c...
March 31, 2018
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, I have been reading J.C. Ryle's "Old Paths" with some young men in the church, and this week we read Chapter 4, titled "Our Hope." In it, Ryle gives five marks of a well-founded...