Month February 2008

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Westminster Shorter Catechism Project

James Grant passed along a link to a site that looks very helpful: The Westminster Shorter Catechism Project. It includes the catechism, along with links to works and commentary by John Flavel, Thomas Watson, Thomas Boston, James Fisher, John Whitecross,…

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Atonement on primetime

It’s interesting that a popular television program is addressing the deep flaws in postmodern spirituality. Tell a dying man that questions are more valuable than answsers and the journey is more important than the destination.

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Wisdom from Kaiser

I had the pleasure today of hearing three lectures by Walter Kaiser Jnr.  I was particularly struck by a statement he made tonight: `To ignore any part of the Word of God today is to create a seedbed for heresy…

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Wisdom from Kaiser

I had the pleasure today of hearing three lectures by Walter Kaiser Jnr.  I was particularly struck by a statement he made tonight: `To ignore any part of the Word of God today is to create a seedbed for heresy…

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Wisdom from Kaiser

I had the pleasure today of hearing three lectures by Walter Kaiser Jnr.  I was particularly struck by a statement he made tonight: `To ignore any part of the Word of God today is to create a seedbed for heresy…

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Church, Kingdom, and Society

Jim Hamilton has written an excellent article for the latest issue of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. Given that we are in a political season this article is timely ().

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Pray

Please be in prayer for Dr. Al Mohler of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He will be undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from his colon. Dr. Mohler has been used greatly by God to help raise up a generation of…

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Shepherd the flock of God

I was recently attending a gathering of pastors when I heard the now tired phrase, “For so many years I preached to the already convinced.” This, we are intended to infer, is a bad thing. After all, what could be…

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When the church goes the world’s way

“Sadly, this is not the church’s finest hour. We live in an age of weak theology and casual Christian conduct. Our knowledge is insufficient, our worship is irreverent, and our lives are immoral. Even the evangelical church has succumbed to…

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New Book

An excellent new volume is that by Robert C Kolb and Charles P Arand, The Genius of Luther’s Theology (Baker Academic).  Not so much a study of Luther’s thought as an interaction with him on the issues of righteousness and…