Month January 2010

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The Incredible Shrinking Pulpit

From Al Mohler: Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University’s College of Preachers. The British university’s CODEC research center, which aims to explore “the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporary…

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Pro-Baby

From Marvin Olasky of World Magazine: A Gallup poll in 1972 showed 66 percent of Americans opposing abortion legalization. That year Detroit newspapers heavily supported a Michigan referendum to establish abortion on demand through the first five months of pregnancy,…

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Workshops on Biblical Exposition

Each year Tenth Presbyterian Church is pleased to host one of the Simeon Trust’s Workshops on Biblical Exposition (also sponsored by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals).  The workshop is a profitable time not just because of the teaching during the…

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MDB 12: Genesis 20

“There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.”–Genesis 20:11  Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of a royal mess without even being aware of it. Such was…

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Seeing God in the Little Things

Our friend Mike Milton (now president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina) has just published a book called Small Things, Big Things: Inspiring Stories of Everyday Grace (P&R).  Dr. Milton has a keen eye for seeing God at work…

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Worship and Reality

There is spiritual danger in Paganism, and as Origen stated (and recently quoted by Pope Benedict) Paganism is defined by “Lacking feeling and reason, they are transformed into stones and wood.” In other words, Paganism flattens our perception, makes all…

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Verses for the Church in America

A passage from this morning’s devotions struck home as a verse for the American church, which today seems so prone to be fearful of various politicians and political movements, and of forces are conspiring against the church.  The prophet Isaiah reminds…

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A Prayer for Pastors, Part 10

“From self-conceit and vanity and boasting, from delight in supposed success and superiority, raise us to the modesty and humility of true sense and taste and reality; and from all the harms and hindrances of offensive manners and self-assertion; Save…

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Paradoxology

The words of Jesus are sometimes absurd, often apparently self-contradictory, and always difficult. His words are never easy because they always strike at our perverted values and exalted idols. This confounds some, enrages others and by the grace of God…

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Sunday’s Sermon

This week’s message was part 26 in our series through Hebrews – “A Sacrifice Like No Other” (Hebrews 10:1-18). You can listen to or download the sermon HERE.