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What Would John Owen Say to the Church Today?

Man in 17th-century attire with walking stick overlooking a ruined village with damaged churches and houses

It is a peculiar and exhausting feature of our generation that stating the blindingly obvious has become a radical act. We live in a twilight era of the Western church where the doctrinal baseline has dropped so precipitously that standard, historic faithfulness is routinely diagnosed as extremism. If you hold to the plain text ofContinue reading “What Would John Owen Say to the Church Today?”

The Sound of Silence: Ryle, Lloyd-Jones, and the British Exile

What is going on? AI transcript in question here. A friend recently challenged my central polemic of God Closed Church, doubting that such giants of the faith as J. C. Ryle and Martyn Lloyd-Jones would find common ground with a thesis he deemed too “radical”. Yet, when we subject this claim to a logic-driven exchangeContinue reading “The Sound of Silence: Ryle, Lloyd-Jones, and the British Exile”

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones audiobook

If you’re wanting some trustworthy spiritual content in your life over the festive period, I have produced an audiobook version of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1942 classic, The Plight of Man & the Power of God.

It is a great truth and therefore a great indictment upon the modern Church that we can not truly understand the love of God until we first come to understand how perfect, holy and just He is to punish sin…and how glorious the gospel hope is in being delivered from such a wrath.

You can listen to all five parts below.

A Trustworthy Prophetic Word to the British Church (1963-2023)

This week on Into the Pray, I read out an excerpt of an address of Martin Lloyd-Jones to his own church during an annual away day as a church family in 1963.

Encouragingly for us, the crux of what Lloyd-Jones was saying 61 years ago in 1963 is the same embryonic train of thought as the things I have written in The Glorious Few in 2023, (60 years hence).

Please listen with an open mind and a willing heart.

“If I am right in my diagnosis, the position is moving very rapidly and unless we do something, it may be too late; or we may be so overwhelmed in disaster that it will only be out of a terrible wreckage that we may gradually crawl out into a new position. I say the alternative is to recognize that it is time for us to act, to clarify our own minds.” — MLJ (1963)