Must Saving Faith Humble?

Martin Luther Speaking of Martin Luther, Alister McGrath, professor of theology at Oxford, wrote, “By late 1514 Luther had arrived at the fundamental insight that the proper disposition for justification is humility…God humiliates man, in order that he may...

The Reformation in Scotland

See my previous post on London and Oxford.The next day Judy and I drove to Edinburgh, Scotland, to catch up on our old friends Paul and Shiona Rees. We spent Thursday night with them in Edinburgh. Paul gave us a tour of his church, Charlotte Chapel. It is a...

Historical Notes on the United Kingdom

I am blogging from the United Kingdom. My daughter, Sarah, just gave birth to a new granddaughter, Emily Alice Victoria Jones. Her father, Tony, is a pastor in Durham, a Cathedral town in North England just South of the Scottish border.Tower of London Tony took me on...