Month April 2010

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Q & A with Storms and Ortlund

Justin Taylor posted links to last year’s Clarus conference at Desert Springs Church which featured Ray Ortlund and Sam Storms. The following links are to YouTube videos of Drs. Storms and Ortlund fielding a number of excellent questions. Questions on…

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MDB 80: Psalm 34

According to the title of Psalm 34, its contents reflect the time when David feigned madness before the Philistine Abimelech. Earlier, David’s wife Michal had managed to give Saul’s hit-men the slip, allowing David an opportunity to flee – eventually…

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This Was Grace

From Justin Taylor:“A video featuring one of my heroes, John Knight (development director at Desiring God), talking about God’s work in and through his son, Paul, who was born blind and with autism.”

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John Stott’s Swan Song?

John Stott’s latest book, The Radical Disciple, has just been released in the USA (I think its been available in the UK for a while). Published by IVP, this has all the marks of a collector’s piece about it. Cards…

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“You can’t live in the hallway.”

The following is an important observation from an article by Michael Horton: I’ve argued elsewhere that evangelicalism is like the village green in older parts of the country, especially New England. There may be two or three churches on the…

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MDB 79: Psalm 33

Like watchtowers of the soul, Psalm 33 begins and ends with a reminder of the “steadfast love” of God (5, 22, also 18). The word in Hebrew – chesed – suggests God’s faithfulness to his covenant. His love isn’t fickle…

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PCRT Greenville Wrap Up

PCRT Greenville officially ended after morning worship this past Lord’s Day after Dr. Duncan’s glory-filled address on “Partakers of the Age to Come.”  But the conference itself is still lingering in the pre-summer humid air of Greenville.  Some highlights: Joel…

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Is darwinian evolution compatible with Christianity?

Mark Jones has written two excellent articles (Here & Here) on the compatibility of darwinian evolution and Christianity. The articles were spurred on by the recent dust up at RTS over Bruce Waltke’s video for the Biologos Foundation. Darwinists like…

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Hope-full Presbyterianism

For some, my title is a bit of an oxymoron. I like to say that I’m so pleased with the cover of my book, On Being Presbyterian, because the people actually look happy being Presbyterian; that always gets a big…