Month October 2007

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More than Wallpaper!

Just arrived — literally minutes ago — a the brand new translation of John Owen’s Communion with the Triune God by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor. The foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer is fascinating in its own right, and as…

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60 Minutes, Osteen, and Horton

Here is a link to some articles that Michael Horton wrote after his appearance on 60 Minutes in which he was intereviewed for a segment on Joel Osteen (60 Minutes, Osteen, and Horton). Horton is one of the most articulate…

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Finding Reliable Men pt. 1

Considering the fact that Metro East will soon begin the process of prayerfully selecting elders, I will be posting a series of excellent articles by Thabiti Anyabwile on the biblical qualifications of those who serve the church as elders (Those…

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Between Two Worlds: Red-Letter Christians

Justin Taylor links to a good article by Stan Guthrie regarding Tony Campolo’s “Red-Letter Christians” (Red-Letter Christians). For a long time I have been frustrated by editions of the Bible that have the words of Jesus in red. The danger…

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Some Thoughts on the Kingdom of God

I have been soaking up Bruce Waltke’s magnum opus A Theology of the Old Testament. Waltke, one of the world’s foremost Hebrew and Old Testament scholars has given the church a great resource in this, his latest book. It is…

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Reformation Wallpaper

Andrew Moody has written to say that J.R. Herbert’s well-known painting of the Westminster Assembly is now available in poster form.  For more details, go to: https://www.reformationart.com/westminster-assembly-poster–2.html

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David Brainerd, Part 2

“The Sabbath evening, July 12, 1739 I was walking again in the same solitary place, where I was brought to see myself lost and helpless, as was before mentioned; and here, in a mournful melancholy state, was attempting to pray;…

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Cultural Transformation

Recently our friends at 9Marks Ministries wrote to ask: Does Scripture call the local church (by which we mean the local church as the local church, not as individual Christians) to the work of cultural transformation? For example, is a…