Odds and Ends

I just realized that it's been three weeks since I've posted something. Here are two things that I found interesting.

• The week of August 23 is the 437th anniversary of the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Here are some thoughts on it from Scott Clark.
• Here are some thoughts from a PCA pastor on how we can be culturally relevant in preaching the gospel to a culture that no longer has a Christian majority. I think for the most part that he has some good conclusions but what do you all think?

Lots of books on sale

Sorry that it's been a long time since the last post but I was in Phoenix last week so I didn't have a chance to get to this. There are a lot of book sales going on at the moment so here are a couple of good ones.

WTS Books is offering a brand new book on three views on baptism for just $4.99 through today. Bruce Ware presents the believer's baptism view, Sinclair Ferguson the infant baptism, and Anthony Lane the dual practice. This should be a useful book to have and Pastor Ferguson is a very clear and capable writer to follow his responses to Ware and Lane.

Christian Book Distributors is offering Louis Berkhof Systematic Theology for just $9.99 for a limited time. While this is available in the church library it is a very useful one volume systematic theology and hard to beat the price!

Finally, Reformation Heritage books is offering great deals on a number of titles:

• A new edition of Reformation Heroes is now available and comes with a study guide. This is a great book to introduce children to how God used 41 Reformers to bless his church. Currently available for $18 with the study guide.
• Gerald Bray's Doctrine of God in the Contours of Christian Theology series is available for $8.99. While Frame's book on the same subject is better this is still a good book to read through for a Reformed view on theology proper.
• William MacIntyre's Token of the Covenant is available for $1.50. This is a brief presentation of infant baptism.