Month December 2008

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The Gospel and the Local Congregation

After the Christmas and New Year’s holidays I plan on preaching a series of messages concerning the centrality of the Gospel in the life of the church. I was challenged, therefore, when I read the following post from Ligon Duncan.…

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Celebrating Festivus in Washington

Just when you think government beaurocrats couldn’t get more ridiculous Washington State comes along and ups the ante. In an effort to include every obscure group in the state the good folks at the Capital in Olympia have raised a…

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One Cheer for Carl

Carl Trueman is right about physiology and depression, but will come to regret ordering Franky Schaeffer’s book about his father, which is guilty of far more than bad taste.  For those who haven’t seen it, Os Guinness wrote an appropriately…

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O dear…

I have just come across a blog by “Jeffrey” who describes himself as having been an evangelical Christian until April 2008 until, that is. Christianity “failed the insider test.”  Sad as this is, his latest blog lists five books which he…

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William Grimshaw

William Grimshaw of Haworth in Yorkshire, born 14 September 1708, was regarded by J C Ryle as one of the three greatest men of the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival; the other two being John Wesley and George Whitefield. Evangelical Press…

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Frank Schaeffer on NPR

There’s an interesting interview with Frank Schaeffer available at the NPR website here. FS has taken a lot of hits for his repudiation of his father’s evangelicalism, his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy, and for his recent book on his father,…

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Frank Schaeffer on NPR

There’s an interesting interview with Frank Schaeffer available at the NPR website here. FS has taken a lot of hits for his repudiation of his father’s evangelicalism, his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy, and for his recent book on his father,…

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Curse This Global Warming!

It’s snowing in Houston and New Orleans! Over a million homes from New York to Vermont are frozen and without power! How cold does it have to get before we realize it’s getting warmer? When will we learn that the…