My new Profile picture. Whaddya think? My allergies have left me feeling worse than ever today. I awoke at 3:00 AM unable to breathe and hen...

I've always loved The Banner of Truth. The November issue is especially good. Just thumbing through, I noticed a brilliant article by T...

Your weekly dose of Spurgeon Pyro Maniac devotes Monday space to highlights from . Charles Spurgeon was a cessationist. He regarded the ch...

For reasons that I don't understand, I am beset with severe allergy problems every year about this time. I know it's not technically...

Whoa. I just noticed that my last Blog Spotting post was back in September. Forgive me for neglecting this important duty. The humor quoti...

First off, thanks to everyone who left a comment on yesterday's post. I spent the day yesterday dealing with members of my family who ar...

This is the start of a brief new series on the current obsession with "fresh revelation" from God. Predictably, a lot of the same ...

We've been talking about the biblical strategy for spiritual warfare for several days now. This is the final post I plan to make on the ...

Before we move to a completely different topic, look again at what Paul says about the weaponry for spiritual warfare: "For the weapons...

Your weekly dose of Spurgeon Pyro Maniac devotes Monday space to highlights from . Here's an excerpt one of the last sermons Spurgeon e...

Last week I was asked to give a group of college students a 50-minute survey of the history of Calvinist opinion. Sound like I bit off more ...

Capitola, CA The region around Santa Cruz and Capitola is practically our favorite place in the whole world. If a one-room bungalow didn...

I have been trying to underscore some principles about spiritual warfare from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. If you get nothing else from that passa...

Two days ago, before we got interrupted by the atonement debate, we were talking about spiritual warfare and 2 Corinthians 10:4-5: "For...

Spurgeon and penal substitution revisited A couple of Brit-bloggers, Steve and Sven, both noticed Monday's Spurgeon quote and voiced ...

Ever since Frank Peretti's demon-warfare novels dominated the Christian best-seller lists in the 1980s and '90s, the popular concept...

from chapter 12, "The Minister in These Times" in An All-Round Ministry Spurgeon responds to men in his day who thought the doctri...

...Summing up It should be clear by now that I oppose strict pacifism in principle. I especially object to the jejune and naive types of ...