Month November 2009

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A Gospel Manifesto

FromAn Earnest Call For Evangelical Leaders To Recover The Gospel From Its Present Humiliation by Ray Ortlund, Jr. Pastors and church leaders, in particular, are under enormous pressure today to satisfy the immediate demands of the marketplace at the cost…

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Contending for the Truth

“An interloper who steals property must be caught and charged. Thinly disguised atheism and neopaganism are interlopers in liberated church circles. They have engaged in the theft of church property. The stolen property must be reclaimed and the thieves brought…

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Rude Dogmatism

“Religious tolerance is not always a sign of good will. It can be a sign of careless, perhaps hypocritical religious indifference of the most high-handed philosophic relativism. It can also be a mask behind which to hide down right malice.…

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Thanksgiving reading

Okay, it’s not as long as the summer, but it is a few days and don’t you think books ought to trump parades and college football?  Put another way, nothing goes better with turkey than some good reads.   Let…

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Reading Up on the Church

The following are some books that are helpful toward developing a better understanding of the church: Nine Marks of the Healthy Church by Mark Dever Twelve Challenges Churches Face by Mark Dever The Church by Edmund Clowney Life in the…

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Military Service and Religious Liberty

Al Mohler addresses a very timely and surely controversial subject in his latest article. In the days since the shootings, the question of Muslims serving in the U.S. military has been unavoidable. In one sense, the question is hardly new.…