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I've done my sermon prep, but....

Maybe it's something to do with the friends I have on Facebook, but some of them are very keen to let the world know the point in the week when they have completed their sermon preparation. I think I know...
Posted February 6, 2010 @ 6:39 PM by Iain D Campbell
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Another tough day in the valleys

Who would have thought that the greatest living Englishman would turn out to be Welsh?  Wyn Jones is my hero....
Posted February 6, 2010 @ 3:54 PM by Carl Trueman
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Providence and Calvin

I am preaching on the doctrine of providence tomorrow from a text in 1 Samuel. For some inexplicable reason, I have called the sermon, "The Saints and the providence of God." And, as it happens, I picked up this week...
Posted February 6, 2010 @ 1:08 PM by Derek Thomas
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Why not play rugby on Sunday?

Martin Downes drew my attention to this piece in today's The Guardian newspaper:  The Scottish tighthead prop (ask Carl Trueman what that means) Euan Murray explained to The Guardian why he won't be trampling over French rugby players on Sunday,...
Posted February 4, 2010 @ 1:31 PM by Derek Thomas
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Westminster Assembly Project

The following announcement has been made by Reformation Heritage Books: The Westminster Assembly Project and Reformation Heritage Books   The Westminster Assembly Project, best known for the edition of Assembly minutes and papers to be published by Oxford University Press, has...
Posted January 28, 2010 @ 7:02 PM by Iain D Campbell
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Dallas

It depends on your context.  If you're thinking great TV series of the 70s, you're thinking Who [indeed] shot J.R.?  If you're thinking football, you're thinking of that team that somehow got the upper hand on the [beloved] Eagles (twice!)...
Posted January 28, 2010 @ 12:47 PM by Stephen Nichols
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New Edwards Set--Just in time for Valentine's Day

I just saw the notice of a handy new set of Edwards' writings.  Its edited by Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney and published by Moody.  It looks like there will be five convenient paperbacks and a hefty hardback.  And they...
Posted January 25, 2010 @ 1:37 PM by Stephen Nichols
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Workshops on Biblical Exposition

Each year Tenth Presbyterian Church is pleased to host one of the Simeon Trust's Workshops on Biblical Exposition (also sponsored by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals).  The workshop is a profitable time not just because of the teaching during the...
Posted January 19, 2010 @ 2:27 PM by Phil Ryken
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Seeing God in the Little Things

Our friend Mike Milton (now president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina) has just published a book called Small Things, Big Things: Inspiring Stories of Everyday Grace (P&R).  Dr. Milton has a keen eye for seeing God at work...
Posted January 19, 2010 @ 11:08 AM by Phil Ryken
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Verses for the Church in America

A passage from this morning's devotions struck home as a verse for the American church, which today seems so prone to be fearful of various politicians and political movements, and of forces are conspiring against the church.  The prophet Isaiah reminds...
Posted January 19, 2010 @ 8:42 AM by Phil Ryken
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A Prayer for Pastors, Part 10

"From self-conceit and vanity and boasting, from delight in supposed success and superiority, raise us to the modesty and humility of true sense and taste and reality; and from all the harms and hindrances of offensive manners and self-assertion; Save...
Posted January 19, 2010 @ 8:38 AM by Phil Ryken
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How (not) to be an American Missionary in Scotland |

My colleague David Robertson has updated and re-published an article reflecting on cross-cultural mission. That is a nice way of saying that he has a lot of criticism of (some) American mission work in Scotland. The points he raises are...
Posted January 16, 2010 @ 7:16 AM by Iain D Campbell
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Vos on the Incarnation

"The whole incarnation, with all that pertains to it, is one great sacrament of redemption" (Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology, p88). Discuss....
Posted January 14, 2010 @ 6:14 PM by Iain D Campbell
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New Radio slot

I recently heard that Pilgrim Radio will be broadcasting Christ the Center on FM radio. Pilgrim Radio airs 24 hours a day in 5 States. They broadcast The Al Mohler Program, as well as  R.C. Sproul, John Piper, and Alistair Begg. Christ the Center is the weekly podcast of the Reformed...
Posted January 11, 2010 @ 9:57 AM by Derek Thomas
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Rules for Writing Well

some basic rule's of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to:26 Golden Rules for Writing Well 1.Don't abbrev. 2.Check to see if you any words out. 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 4.About sentence...
Posted January 11, 2010 @ 4:41 AM by Iain D Campbell
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