BIBLICAL STUDIES

The Importance of the Historicity of Genesis 1–3 for Theology Proper, Anthropology, and Christology—Micah Everett

The Glory of the Cross (1)—Pieter DeVries

Trust in the Incarnate Word—Joel R. Beeke

The Unique Relationship Between the Father and the Son in the Gospel of John—Bartel Elshout

A Puritan’s Perspective on Galatians 2:20—Adam McClendon

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Sweet Mystery: John Owen on the Trinity—Paul M. Smalley

John Flavel: The Lost Puritan—Brian H. Cosby

Not by Faith Alone: The Neonomianism of Richard Baxter—Michael G. Brown

The Guardian of the Gathered: Covenant and Community in the Career of George Philips—Timothy L. Wood

William Bagshawe and the Derbyshire Puritans—Crawford Gribben

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

The “Cream of Creation” and the “Cream of Faith”: The Lord’s Supper as a Means of Assurance in Puritan Thought—Matthew Westerholm

Piety in the Canons of Dort—Matthew Barrett

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

How to Evaluate Your Sermons—Joel R. Beeke

Wilhelmus à Brakel’s Spirituality of Virtues and Its Implications for Soul Care—Lydia Kim-van Daalen

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

Rediscovering the Laity: The Reformation in the Pew and in the Classroom—Joel R. Beeke

Principles of Sabbath-Keeping: Jesus and Westminster—Ryan M. McGraw

Serious Preaching in a Comedy Culture—David Murray

Van Til and Singer: The Theological Interpretation of History William VanDoodewaard

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BIBLICAL STUDIES

Our View of the Old Testament—David Murray

The Father’s Love for His Son—Bartel Elshout

The Age of the Spirit and Revival—Joel R. Beeke

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Jerome Zanchi on Union with Christ and Justification—J. V. Fesko

Calvin on Sovereignty, Providence, and Predestination—Joel R. Beeke

Puritan Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Preambles and Projections—Randall J. Pederson

Reformed, Puritan, and Baptist: A Comparison of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith to the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith—Paul M. Smalley

A Half Reformation: English Puritanism According to Samuel Rutherford—Michael Brown

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

The Puritan Doctrine of Preparationism—Cor Harinck

The Content and Context of Jacobus Koelman’s Remarks on Thomas Hooker’s The Soules Humiliation—Pieter Rouwendal

Jonathan Edwards and A Divine and Supernatural Light—Kevin C. Carr

An Uncommon Union: Understanding Jonathan Edwards’s Experimental Calvinism—William M. Schweitzer

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

William Ames and the church’s Worship: A Puritan’s Analysis of a Contemporary Question—Jonathon Beeke

Handling a High Mystery: The Westminster Confession on Preaching Predestination—Daniel R. Hyde

John Owen’s Principles of Nonconformity—James E. Dolezal

Consider Christ in Affliction: An Open Letter to True Believers—Joel R. Beeke

”Surely It is Worth While”: William Carey’s Personal Application of His Enquiry—Nathan A. Finn

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

On Theological Writing—Ryan M. McGraw

William S. Plumer on Pastoral Writing—Ryan M. McGraw

The First Amendment’s Religion Clauses: The Calvinist Document that Interprets Them Both—Leah Farish

BOOK REVIEWS

Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 4—Roger Nicole

Iain M. Duguid, Daniel—Lane Keister

Cornelis P. Venema, Children at the Lord’s Table: Assessing the Case for Paedocommunion—Ryan M. McGraw

Jason Zuidema, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and the Outward Instruments of Divine Grace—Carl Schouls

“Hot Protestants”: A Taxonomy of English Puritanism—Ian Hugh Clary

John Bunyan and His Relevance for Today—Pieter Devries

Samuel Petto (c. 1624–1711): A Portrait of a Puritan Pastor Theologian—Michael G.Brown

James Durham (1622–1658) and the Free Offer of the Gospel—Donald John MaClean

Thomas Watson: The Necessity of Meditation—Jennifer C. Neimeyer

Was Samuel Rutherford a Mystic?—Robert Arnold

John Owen and the Third Mark of the Church—Stephen Yuille

Jeremiah Burroughs onWorship—James Davison

David Berkley, Travel Through Cambridge: City of Beauty, Reformation and Pioneering Research (Book Review)—Kenneth Magnuson

Jeffery K. Jue, Heaven Upon Earth: Joseph Mede (1586–1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism (Book Review)—Mark Jones

Biblical Studies

The Jews’ View of the Old Testament—David Murray

An Everlasting House: An Exegesis of 2 Samuel 7—Maarten Kuivenhoven

Applying Christ’s Supremacy: Learning from Hebrews—Gerald M. Bilkes

Systematic and Historical Theology

“Hot Protestants”: A Taxonomy of English Puritanism—Ian Hugh Clary

John Bunyan and His Relevance for Today—Pieter Devries

Samuel Petto (c. 1624 –1711): A Portrait of a Puritan Pastor Theologian—Michael G.Brown

James Durham (1622–1658) and the Free Offer of the Gospel—Donald John MaClean

The Ceremonial or Moral Law: Jonathan Edwards’s Old Perspective on an Old Error—Craig Biehl

Experiential Theology

The Theological Foundation and Goal of Piety in Calvin and Erasmus—Timothy J.Gwin

Thomas Watson: The Necessity of Meditation Jennifer C.Neimeyer

Was Samuel Rutherford a Mystic?—Robert Arnold

The “Sense of the Heart”: Edwards’s Public Expression of His Pietistic Understanding of Religious Experience—Karin Spiecker Stetina

Pastoral Theology and Missions

John Owen and the Third Mark of the Church— Stephen Yuille

Jeremiah Burroughs on Worship—James Davison

Samuel Davies: One of America’s Greatest Revival Preachers—John E. Skidmore

A Pastor’s Analysis of Emphases in Preaching: Two False Dichotomies and Three Conclusions—Ryan M. McGraw

“For God’s Glory (and) for the Good of Precious Souls”: Calvinism and Missions in the Piety of Samuel Pearce (1766–1799)—Michael A. G. Haykin

Contemporary and Cultural Issues

Handling Error in the Church: Martin Downes Interviewing Joel R. Beeke

Interview with Geoff Thomas

Practical Lessons from the Life of Idelette Calvin— Joel R. Beeke

The “Little Church”: Raising a Spiritual Family with Jonathan Edwards—Peter Beck