I met Bruce Wilkinson, then the head of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland Oregon in June of 1987. He was teaching a one-week […]

Philip Gulley is a Quaker minister and novelist whose fiction I greatly enjoy. Gulley is best known for writing in a humorous, Americana style, about the town of Harmony, Indiana, […]

Princeton Theological Seminary was going to give Tim Keller the “Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness.” Then critics complained about Keller’s traditional views that women and […]

A little more than a decade ago James White, a Calvinist apologist, and I debated the issues of faith and assurance in Oklahoma City. Today I received word from Shawn […]

Have you ever seen the scrambled words test? You are presented with a paragraph of text, and even though the words are scrambled, you can still read it without too […]

I’m the kind of person who overthinks things. There’s about three or four thousand books in my home library that can attest to that (not counting the books in my […]

After I wrote a blog about meeting the Lord in the air, a pastor friend, Dave, asked me the following questions: If the 24 elders represent rewarded saints, then I’ve […]

This past weekend I was in Tampa to speak at Bayside Community Church. I flew in on Saturday, arriving a little after noon. That gave me time for lunch and […]

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses (1 […]

Bob often mentions the name of R. B. Thieme, a pastor from Houston, who had an unusually influential ministry. Bob considers Thieme one of the first Free Grace theologians. Several […]