Month June 2009

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Reflecting on a disturbing statistic

There has been quite a bit of buz concerning the latest stats about the number of young people raised in the church who abandon the church and even the faith once they graduate from high school. In light of these…

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Sunday’s Sermon

Sunday’s sermon was part 5 in our series on Hebrews – “Warning! Don’t Neglect A Great Salvation.” You can listen to or download it HERE.

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Calvinism and Worldliness

My colleague Guy Davies has drawn my attention to an article by Peter Masters in which he accuses virtually every professing Calvinist in America of being worldly and promoting worldliness. The article begins with a swipe at Hansen’s Young, Restless…

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The Politics of Bioethics

Over at First Things Joe Carter reports: Earlier this week, members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House that their services were no longer needed. President Obama’s decision was made and implemented in his typical…

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Blog 121: 3.11.5 – 3.11.8

Is the Institutes a work of systematic theology? Yes and no. Calvin covers many of the topics of theology in his own inimitable way, but unevenly. There is much from the patristic and medieval theology that he takes for granted.…

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Shakespeare as a Christian Writer

The myth of the secular Shakespeare continues to cast a long shadow over most people’s perception of Shakespeare’s plays.  Until I inherited the Shakespeare course in my department halfway through my career, I assumed that despite certain Christian patterns and…

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Shakespeare as a Christian Writer

The myth of the secular Shakespeare continues to cast a long shadow over most people’s perception of Shakespeare’s plays.  Until I inherited the Shakespeare course in my department halfway through my career, I assumed that despite certain Christian patterns and…

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New Book

I have been looking forward to the release of Richard Gamble’s The Whole Counsel of God for some time. It is the first in a projected 3 volumes. Here’s the publisher’s description: Richard Gamble offers a comprehensive theology attuned to…

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The Great god Entertainment

“For centuries the church stood solidly against every form of worldly entertainment, recognising it for what it was — a device for wasting time, a refuge from the disturbing voice of conscience, a scheme to divert attention from moral accountability.…