Month January 2011

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God’s Gospel Gift

Cast your mind back into the depths of the allegedly-festive season. For many, it would be a time for the giving of gifts. Typically, with the person in mind for whom you desire a gift, you set out to find…

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The “E” Word

Kevin DeYoung has an excellent post on the importance of moral language in the face of such events as Saturday’s mass murder in Tuscon. I have no doubt Loughner is messed up, crazy, off his rocker, and out to lunch.…

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The lure of the gold

Stuck in snow and ice in South Carolina, I’ve been ruminating Paul’s New Year missive about the Brits in America, with its sordid plot line of filthy lucre and their collective misguided, duplicitous claims of divine guidance when, if truth…

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“The Thermopylae of Christendom”

“The pulpit is the Thermopylae of Christendom: there the fight will be lost or won. “To us ministers the maintenance of our power in the pulpit should be our great concern, we must occupy that spiritual watch-tower with our hearts…

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“A Murky Landscape”

Ross Douthat offers wise commentary on the mysterious motives of the Tuscon shooter. Along the way he gives a timely rebuke to those who seek to assign blame for political advantage. But chances are that Loughner’s motives will prove as…

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Sunday’s Sermon

This week’s message was entitled “Our International Anthem” and was taken from Psalm 96. You can listen to or download it HERE.

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iPods

Paul missed the two key tracks on Trueman’s iPod before his move: `If I Were a Rich Man’ by Topol, and `Sailing to Philadelphia’ (the reference to Knopfler last week surely being a Freudian slip).  Of course, rumour has it…