Author Archives: The Town Crier Outlet

“Mystical gold” right here! However, even the most golden works of contemplative prayer are bound to have their dross. Expect some “mystical dross” of Catholic Marianism, but probably no more than that. You will not find any Thomas Merton or … Continue reading →

I’m almost finished with Robert Tuttle’s Mysticism in the Wesleyan Tradition (1989); and I believe it has really helped me to sift through the mystical garbage that pollutes a lot of charismatic books. A while back God’s voice told me … Continue reading →

For an outline of a book idea, with the title Evangelical Mysticism, the table of contents (tentative) would be a profile of chapters on certain evangelical mystics and their own particular brand of mysticism. I put the qualifier of “mysticism” … Continue reading →

Originally from here. August 29, 2012 Justin Taylor recently revived Mark Dever’s 2007 series of articles titled “Where’d All These New Calvinists Come From?” This was a ten-part series that looked to the rise of New Calvinism and sought to … Continue reading →

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  –1 Corinthians 13:6 In this article, I am going to draw from four different sources. Because there is no subject in the Christian life more important than love, I … Continue reading →

PRE-CONVERSION. I was born in Arlington Heights, IL into a nominally Catholic family. We went to services, called Mass, but there was no real practice of piety in daily life. My parents were good American citizens; it was a decent … Continue reading →

Article from here. The term “easy-believism” is a usually derogatory label, used to characterize the faulty understanding of the nature of saving faith adhered to by much of contemporary Evangelicalism, most notably (and extremely) by such Dispensational authors as Charles … Continue reading →

On the Hebrides Revival, Leonard Ravenhill said: “The children had to memorize the Shorter Catechism [The Westminster Shorter Catechism]…Did you know Isaac Watts had a catechism for children under seven years of age!? [Dr. Watts’s Plain and Easy Catechisms]…And you … Continue reading →

It’s amazing how we can be married ten, twenty, thirty, forty, or even fifty plus years and still find there is much we don’t know about each other. Some experts say it’s because we’ve lost the art of conversation. Others … Continue reading →