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his month ’ s edition of the record picks up
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THE RECORD IN A POST-TRUTH SOCIETY The Editor
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WORLD NEWS UK, Germany, USA, Bolivia, DRC, Turkey, Iran, China, Philipines
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FREE CHURCH NEWS Fortrose Free Church, New minister in Dunblane , WfM Annual Meeting, Youth Camps, Dumisani Fundraiser
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HOME FROM HOME Jody and Matty Guy
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ETS NEWS Thomas Davis
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COMPASSION UK: A VISION TRIP TO ETHIOPIA Iain MacAskill
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THE LEWIS CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE: HOW GOOD A THING
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A STORY OF A BOY John M MacPherson
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MIRACLE HAPPENS? Roddie Rankin
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OF RARE BEAUTY AND EXCELLENCE The Editor
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OBITUARIES
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BOOK REVIEWS
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SOLAS: GOING FORWARD WITH THE GOSPEL Gavin Matthews
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OBEDIENCE TRANSFORMED Dayspring MacLeod
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MISSION MATTERS David Meredith
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GAELIC Janet MacPhail
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POETRY PAGE Horatius Bonar
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PRAYER DIARY
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POST TENEBRAS LUX Catriona Murray
where the last edition left off .
We continue to bring you news from around the Free Church, from the mission field and from around the world. We also have comment, analysis and reviews which encourage us to think about contemporary culture with a Christian mind. I’m grateful to David Robertson for the blueprint he has left, and for the advice he has generously given me. Fin Macrae, our designer, has a vital role in ensuring The Record’s message is communicated. I appreciate his patience and support. I’m also very thankful that our regular contributors, Dayspring MacLeod, Catriona Murray, Thomas Davis, David Meredith, Janet MacPhail, Sarah Cumming, Miriam Montgomery and Mairi Macdonald, are willing to continue enriching the magazine with their writing month by month. Particular thanks to those of you who have sent material for this edition of the magazine, or who have graciously responded to a request from me. The Record is really a church-wide work. I’ve recently been enjoying reading 100+ years’ worth of old copies, purloined from Colin R. Morrison at the Free Church Offices. The archives show a church which has, in God’s gracious providence, been through difficult circumstances as well as times of great blessing. But The Record also shows a church which has refused the temptation to retreat into insularity, and a people whose desire is to carry the truth of the gospel into their society and around the world. May we follow in their footsteps. Please send your comments on the magazine or suggestions for articles to: editor@freechurch. org; and any news items from your congregation to dayspring.macleod@icloud.com. You can also send items by post to the Free Church Offices. • Yours in Christ John
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hy are you reading the record?
We live in the era of instant reaction, of disposable commentary. Technology may allow anyone to publicly share their opinion at any moment; but our culture requires them to share it. Whether a voice is heard above the noise this creates depends only on the attention that voice can attract. Negative attention works just as well as positive, and so it is the ideas of the loud and of the provocative which are heard. These ideas are presented to millions of minds with equal weight, regardless of the intellectual sand they are built on. What can a 150-year-old church magazine hope to achieve in such a culture? We quickly got used to the fact that a couple of thoughtless sentences published on Twitter could direct the news headlines. Often we enjoyed the idea that the flow of information was in the hands of the people rather than a few media corporations. But now it seems that affairs of state can be conducted in the same way. The ability to attract attention has brought with it the opportunity to win elections.
Untruths are not good enough for people seeking to be faithful to the One who knows the end from the beginning.
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The sheer amount of information, comment and invective our society generates, and the speed at which it is produced, is overwhelming. Keeping up with it is virtually impossible. The result is that political scandal and accusations of wrongdoing no longer need to be confronted and explained. They are simply buried in the torrent of fresh controversy. In these circumstances the truth is difficult to discern. It’s even easier to distort. Is the promise that Brexit will boost NHS spending by £350 million per week a realistic expectation? Is it a cynical ploy to secure votes? An exaggeration by well-meaning optimists? Or is it just more attention-grabbing noise? Our culture has lost trust in the idea of an objective reality, of facts that we can agree on. We have perhaps reached the logical conclusion of the rejection of absolute truth. In our day, a counsellor to the President of the United States can present statements which contradict the evidence as ‘alternative facts’. Not lies, not distortions, not even exaggerations. Rather, a totally different interpretation of reality in order to make it fit a certain agenda. Who could have imagined that, in the scientific era, people would be called upon to justify their position that the Earth is a globe? That the Earth is round has been the settled and shared understanding of humanity since the Middle Ages. The fact was demonstrated by the circumnavigation achieved by the Magellan-Elcano expedition, completed in 1522. Nevertheless, this understanding is being
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OST-TRUTH SOCIETY questioned today. ‘Earth is flat’ may be written on road signs and in the recesses of the internet as a genuine attempt at persuasion towards truth. It may be a subversive statement aimed at eroding trust in received wisdom. It may even be someone having a laugh at the expense of the mainstream. Regardless, it is a statement unburdened by the need to justify itself with evidence. Liberal political commentators will tell us that we are living in a society which is not only post-modern and post-Christian, but post-truth as well. Such a society has found some clarity on what it isn’t, but is clearly still searching for what it is. Trying to keep up with this changing, truthless culture can feel like being trapped in a vortex, at constant risk of being pulled under. Twenty-four-hour news organisations struggle to keep on top of events at times. A monthly print publication has little chance at all. It would be easy to get swept along in the post-truth current. The most successful alternative facts ensure things are murky enough that an air of plausibility remains. People tend to interpret information in a way that supports what they already think. So are those who share ambiguous and
As Christians, we are privileged to be free from the post-truth vortex. We stand on the solid rock of Scripture. false information conspiring or merely in denial? Either way they are using the prevailing wind to gain a personal advantage. We must resist the temptation to do likewise. Psalm 101:7 warns that ‘No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.’ But what is required to stem the post-truth tide? Commenting on the ‘code’ of duelling with deadly weapons when one’s name had been slandered, 19th-century U.S. Senator Charles Gibson argued that ‘the code preserved a dignity, justice and decorum that have since been lost, to the great detriment of the professions, the public and the government. The present generation will think me barbarous but I believe that some lives lost in protecting the tone of the bar and the press, on which the Republic itself so largely depends, are well spent.’ This is barbarous, indeed — violence is a sinful response to the problem. But Gibson’s view illustrates the extremes required to constrain false and vitriolic speech by force. We must follow a different course. As believers in inerrant Scripture, we must hold on to what is true and factual. Even when the truth challenges our own view of the world. Untruths are not good enough for people seeking to be faithful to the One who knows the end from the beginning. The Bible has been studied, argued over, analysed and written about as much as any text in human history — and yet it stands as trustworthy in the scientific age as it was in ancient times. As the angel of the Lord allowed Jacob to wrestle with him, so God graciously permits his Word to be scrutinised >>
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FREE CHURCH NEWS FIRST SERVICE IN FORTROSE FREE CHURCH
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events. The overall costs of the £880k project still leave the congregation with a mortgage; but, in his opening remarks, Mr Sutherland thanked the congregation for its sacrificial giving since 2004 (when a Building Fund was set up) and he also wished, on behalf of himself and his former congregation, to sincerely thank everyone in the wider Church who contributed towards the building project. This was very much appreciated. In his sermons, Mr Sutherland spoke, in the morning, from Jesus’ words in Matthew 12:6: ‘I tell you, something greater than the temple is here’; and in the evening he spoke on ‘Jesus went around doing good’, from Acts 10:38, noting that the church building is not an end in itself and that the new building was to be used for good as followers of Jesus endeavoured, in his strength, to emulate him and ‘go around doing good’ not for salvation but out of it. An official church opening service will take place in due course.•
church congregation met for the first time in
their new church building. The congregation’s former minister, Rev. Sandy Sutherland, was invited to conduct both services, which were well attended by the regular worshippers and joined, especially at the evening service, by friends from other local congregations. Due to serious structural faults in the former church building, it was demolished in September 2017 with the new purpose-built church erected on the same site. It had been hoped that the new building would have been completed prior to Mr Sutherland’s retirement in February, but due to delays in the construction, the project didn’t reach completion until May this year. Early on in the construction, a deeper foundation had to be made than was expected, with a resulting increase in the building budget of £105k! Undeterred, the congregation set about raising the extra funding required through sponsorship and congregational
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pray for us and Dunblane because we know that it is not by might and not by power but by God's Spirit that his work is done.’ The congregation are very grateful to the Kirk Session, Rev. Ken Cameron, Ally Lunan and Session Clerk Innes Macleod, and to deacon Gavin Millar. Their dedication to the church, and their heart for the people of Dunblane, has maintained unity of purpose during an extended period of vacancy and has ensured that the church is active in reaching out with the gospel to the town it serves. The congregation is also indebted to Rev. David Ford, who, as Interim Moderator, has organised excellent pulpit supply and has led the vacancy committee graciously and effectively. Subject to the approval of Presbytery, Allan Shearer’s induction will be held in St Blane’s Church of Scotland at 2pm on Saturday, 5th October 2019. •
he congregation of dunblane free church are delighted that rev. allan shearer has accepted
the call to become their minister. Dunblane has been vacant for six years, since the retirement of much-loved former minister Rev. Alasdair MacDonald. Alasdair oversaw the development of the congregation from a church extension to a charge in its own right. Having been encouraged by the arrival of new families into the church in the last year, the congregation look forward with great anticipation to what the Lord has planned for this new stage of their witness in Dunblane. Allan said, ‘Joanna and I are very excited about the call to Dunblane Free Church. We are so thankful for the prayers of brothers and sisters in Christ while awaiting a call and in considering the call to Dunblane. We are looking forward to joining the team. Please continue to
WOMEN FOR MISSION’S 2019 ANNUAL MEETING BY SARAH CUMMING
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from Caitriana, who works in Central Asia, and from Iain Murchison, who received a Support a Volunteer grant to help with travel costs when he went to work with children in Mozambique. Ruth Campos spoke to us about the work of Operación San Andrés, an organisation for which WfM will be raising funds as part of its 2019/20 project, Mobilising for Mission. As well as raising funds to help Operación San Andrés develop their work in Lima, Peru, Mobilising for Mission will raise funds for Donald and Rosangela Fraser, who work with WEC in Holland; for training for Free Church Youth Camp leaders; and for World on Our Doorstep, which provides cultural awareness training to church leaders and volunteers. Find out more at womenformission.org/ mobilising-for-mission. •
in glasgow city free church on saturday, 18th
may. Through their Community Connections project, Women for Mission had been raising funds to help disabled refugees in the Middle East, building work in Manila and medical support in Bulgaria, and to boost the WfM Heart for Home fund. In the last year over £40,000 has been raised through the generosity of WfM’s supporters across the country. Around 140 women gathered in Glasgow to give thanks to God and to hear from people who have been helped through WfM’s different projects. It was a great joy to hear from a mother in the Middle East whose son has benefited from the services of the charity we’ve supported to help disabled refugees. Her gratitude was clear to see. Barbara Davies, who works in France, spoke to us about some of the challenges faced by the people she and her husband work with. We also heard
Sarah Cumming is The Record Women for Mission Editor
Fiona Macaskill addressing delegates at WfM Annual Meeting
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MIRACLE HAPPENS?
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RODDIE RANKIN rediscovers the awe in Jesus’ healing of the man with a withered hand Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11
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With the added insights of science we behold Jesus’ miracles and declare with wonder, as Pharaoh’s magicians did: “This is the finger of God.”
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a rose come into bloom, understand the witnesses’ excited reaction, grasp that the miracles are signposts pointing to the presence of God, and seek to use them to reinforce our devotion to Jesus. In doing so we may bypass the wonder. It is worthwhile revisiting Jesus’ miracles with modern eyes, in order to rekindle that wonder for a generation nurtured on science. Jesus’ works of power can dazzle us afresh when we consider what is actually involved in producing the miracle. We must see beyond the hand’s burgeoning flesh as witnessed by those in the synagogue. Our analysis must probe the very nature of what is taking place. As that withered hand is healing, new tissue is arising which before was absent. Bone is growing; newly fashioned ligaments, tendons and muscles appear; countless arteries, capillaries and veins materialise and take up their myriad positions. Likewise, from nowhere a complex web of nerves arise, weave and connect, reaching back up the man’s arm and neck and into his brain. There, a minute labyrinth of neurons is created, arranged and wired into his brain to provide motor control so precise that it looks like it took a lifetime of practice to achieve. And then there is the production of extra skin to cover it all, with its many layers, glands and hairs, so that, perhaps, like Naaman, this new flesh is like that of a young boy. In all this we have not even begun to consider that all of these elements are made of cells which themselves are profoundly complex, yet in the miracle spring up from nothing in their billions! Put like this we realise that what Jesus is doing is not a medical procedure. It is not even using the body’s healing powers in an accelerated way. Jesus does more than manipulate pre-existing material. This is a phenomenon that takes place at the level of fundamental particles. It is an atomic procedure. And it involves creation from nothing. For the record, a healthy adult hand has about 50 million million million million atoms. That’s 5 with 25 zeros after it. That is a staggeringly large number. Yet, for the hand to be restored, each one of those atoms must be the right kind of atom for the job it must do. Each one must be in the correct place at the right time. Each one must be combined in a precise way with other atoms to make the molecules of life, and these molecules must be combined to make the structures present in the hand. Finally, if they are >>
t has probably been a while since you were last brought to a halt by an overwhelming sense of
wonder. You live in a culture which is constantly trying to impress or shock. You’ve seen it all, or at least watched the YouTube video. It takes a lot to astonish you these days. That being the case, when you read the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ miracles, you are probably not moved to wonder and praise, as Jesus’ first followers routinely were. The following reflection attempts to rekindle amazement in response to Jesus’ works of power. Take a trip to a 1st-century synagogue in Galilee where a man with a shrivelled hand sits prominently in the congregation listening to Jesus Christ preach. This hand, his right hand, is literally dried up. It is withered, rigid, shrunken, useless. The muscle has wasted; nerve function has ceased. There is tension and expectation in the air. They centre, improbably, around that wasted hand: will Jesus restore it on the Sabbath day? Suddenly he fixes his attention on the man, and with authority demands that he stretch out that withered hand. The atmosphere is electric. What did the man see as Jesus commanded him to extend his hand? He looked, and there was the same stunted stick-hand as before, but invested with the potential of Jesus’ creative word. He believed the impossible, and that claw where a hand should have been began to regenerate, strengthen and grow to mirror his healthy left hand. The bone, muscle and skin seemed to arise spontaneously before his eyes. The renewal of his hand might have been a cameo part in Ezekiel’s vision. The dry bones lived! It was a miracle. The words used in the gospels to describe such marvels give us rich insight into what is happening. They are works of power, which stand entirely apart from the normal natural order, and which can only be explained as the action of God. Consequently they elicit wonder and praise from the witnesses. In the case of this miracle they also provoke hatred from those who were indignant that God had dared to work on the Sabbath! Our observation of Jesus’ first-century miracles takes place long after the praise, applause and hostility have faded. We read of them from a great distance, and once familiar with the stories, may respond to them in a matter-of-fact way. We imagine the scenes, perhaps visualise the dead hand open like
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Free Church Youth Camps Every year hundreds of young people attend Free Church youth camps (FCYC). For most it’s much more than a holiday; it’s a time to learn, form new friendships and enjoy fellowship, none of which would be possible without the hard work and generosity of the camp leaders. FCYC hope to develop audio-visual training resources for leaders and they’re also keen to facilitate a group of leaders undergoing D1 driver training. This will allow them drive minibuses for campers, reducing costs over time.
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Through Mobilising for Mission, WfM will raise funds to help FCYC produce audiovisual training resources and contribute to leaders’ D1 driver training.
Women for Mission’s 2019/2020 Project World on Our Doorstep Govanhill is the UK’s most ethnically and linguistically diverse square mile outside of London. A partnership between Govanhill Free Church, Interserve and The Well Multicultural Resource Centre, The World on Our Doorstep (WoOD) provides cultural awareness training to church volunteers and leaders. Mobilising for Mission will raise funds to help WoOD develop, promote and facilitate this training to further equip, encourage and engage the church in its mission.
Over the next year, with your help, we hope to raise funds for: Free Church Youth Camps World on Our Doorstep Donald & Rosangela Fraser Operación San Andrés
WfM’s Mobilising for Mission project will raise funds to help WoOD develop, promote and facilitate this training to further equip, encourage and engage the church in its mission.
Donations Please send all donations to the donations secretary Mairi Macdonald Greenfaulds 8 Linicro, Portree Isle of Skye, IV51 9YN
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Members of Plockton and Kyle Free Church congregation, Donald and Rosangela Fraser have been serving with WEC (Worldwide Evangelism for Christ) International for several years. Currently serving as cooks in the WEC International college in Holland, the Frasers continue to raise their own support year after year. With an increasing need to replace their car, WfM would like to contribute to their support through Mobilising for Mission.
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Through Mobilising for Mission, WfM will raise funds to help support the Frasers as they serve with WEC International.
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Founded by Luis Campos, a former student of Colegio San Andrés, Operación San Andrés (OSA) is dedicated to transforming the community of Collique, Peru with the power of the gospel. Five years ago, OSA planted a church, Luz de Esperanza. Being a new and growing church, Luz de Esperanza’s needs are many. They’d like to fit a sound system in their church, they need basic kitchen equipment and they would love to be able to increase their work amongst women and teenagers.
WfM raises funds for mission projects which seek to offer help in areas of health, education, poverty and disaster around the world. WfM encourage the women in the Free Church to use their gifts to these ends. WfM facilitate prayer and support for home and international mission.
WfM’s Mobilising for Mission project will raise funds to help Luz de Esperanza develop the work they’ve begun. 2019
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BOOK REVIEW ANDREW MACLEOD recommends David Robertson's new book as a great way to get prepared to give a reason for the hope that you have.
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give away my own copy on the night, so I made an order to Christian Focus (CFP) for a batch and am now making my second order as the first lot went immediately. The book is targeted to answer teenagers’ questions and it definitely does that. However, I think it does so much more than that. A.S.K. is a resource that every single one of us can be using as we engage with our friends and neighbours each day when they ask about the Trinity, Hell, transgenderism, the end of the world, and so on. The book equips us to be more confident in our personal evangelism. We don’t just know what the right answer is, we can discern why it is the right answer. Personally, as I have been reading A.S.K., I have become more inquisitive. Questions I didn’t know I had, or thought I knew the answers to, are springing to mind and David Robertson’s book is proving to be a helpful source to turn to and then point me in a direction for further study. This book is a must-have for every church. It provides answers for our young people and anyone wanting to explore deeper into Christianity. It is a great resource to help church members share the Gospel. It will ensure that every one of us asking and answering questions don’t just know the right answers, but know why these answers are right. •
Was it the sales pitch from the 10ofthose rep? Was it the intriguing front cover? Actually, I bought it because I thought this would be a reasonable resource to give to some of our youngsters in the church. Yet, the reality is that this book has been equipping me for how I may answer my own, my friends’ and my family’s questions about Christianity. A.S.K. is a book which does exactly what it says on the tin: ‘Real World Questions/Real Word Answers’. David Robertson has provided a resource which we would do well to have on our shelves whether we are the pastor, elder, member or questioner. Any of us can know the right answer to give, but we may not know why it is the right answer. David not only answers these questions, but he does so, every time, from a biblical perspective. I have been to hundreds of fellowships in my youth and heard almost all of the questions featured in the book being asked. Sometimes the answers were helpful; other times the group stumbled in the dark. This book would provide a biblical framework for such questions to be asked and answered in the fellowship setting. At the end of each chapter is a short section called ‘Consider’. Helpfully, the reader is encouraged to think a little deeper about the subject and is pointed in a useful direction. But, of course, giving yourself two and a half pages per question doesn’t leave a lot of room for explanation, so a great feature about this book is that it points us to others. A.S.K. acknowledges that it is a launchpad to further study. The book acknowledges the importance of prayer. To whom else should we go with our questions, but to the Lord? David leads the reader in prayer at the end of each chapter, submitting to God’s leading and correction. As I was preaching at our mid-week meeting in Tain and Fearn FC, I alluded to one of the questions in the book: ‘If God really wants a relationship with me, why doesn’t he show himself more clearly?’ I was able to share some of the points of evidence given in the book, including an amazing example from Dr John Lennox. But David summed it up at the end by turning the question around to the questioner: ‘God has made himself clear, so maybe the fault lies elsewhere. Maybe the problem is not with God being silent, but us being unwilling to listen.’ We had a cup of tea after the meeting and it was so encouraging. I’ve rarely seen a reaction like I did that night. People were enthused as I engaged with the book. The folks were discussing the sermon at length with each other, bringing up other questions they had and wanting to know how to adequately answer their friends. I was delighted to book at the free church general assembly?
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WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? In the face of false doctrines and distortions of the truth, Christians must be prepared to boldly confess what they believe. The Westminster Confession of Faith equips you to do just that. In his book Truths We Confess, now thoroughly revised and available in a single, accessible volume, Dr. R.C. Sproul surveys this remarkable confession—explaining its insights, applying them to modern life, and helping you answer the question, “What do you believe?”
Now available at: Evangelical Bookshop (Northern Ireland), FM Bookshops (Scotland), and CLC Christian Bookshops (UK)