My wife’s new book Uprooted is now available in the U. S. Here’s a taste from the preface:

“I’ve moved a lot. Not as much as some military wives, but still, a lot. Once every two to three years, on average. When I was six, my family moved a thousand miles inland from the Canadian east coast. It was the first move I really remember, and it was tough; my mother spent many evenings mopping up the tears. But later moves came and went with minimal trauma. I started thinking that homesickness was for kids—or the faint of heart.

Then, when I was married with a baby, we moved from Scotland to the midwest United States: from mountains, castles, and the sea, to flatness, Wal-Mart, and a creek full of pop bottles. Continue reading →

Being engaged in the work of a pastoral search committee, I recently came across and had the privilege of reading through Brian Biedebach’s book What to look for in a pastor: A guide for pastoral search committees (Leominster, UK: Day One, 2011). The book is a significant contribution to a crucial part of church life: the pastoral search. Biedebach states “this book is all about helping committees and churches find the right men for their pulpits. It is also a book for pastors to help them keep the right balance between preaching and other shepherding responsibilities that are given them by God.” What brought him to write on this topic? Through personal experience and connections he came increasingly to feel that Continue reading →

The term “evangelical” has been so broadly used and abused that some Protestants have abandoned it entirely, preferring to describe themselves as “Baptist”, “Presbyterian”, or “Reformed”. In a 78 page, EP paperback, What is Evangelicalism?, Joel Beeke seeks to define evangelicalism.

Beginning with representative historic and modern definitions, Beeke notes the problems with defining the term, including Lloyd-Jones’ warning that we can err in defining “evangelicalism” too narrowly, creating schism, or too broadly, falling into blind eccumenicalism. Continue reading →

A lot of books go through this house, and we learn from all of them. But once in a while, one comes through that realigns how I think and how I live. Living Zealously for God’s Glory is one of those books. Apart from the Bible and a few good biographies, the last book that so impacted my approach to Christian living was Owen’s Mortification of Sin. Continue reading →