Month October 2011

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Church and Parachurch

I have been asked why I seem so critical of parachurch organizations, when I work for one myself.  Good question.  The following thoughts seem apposite. First, there are different kinds of parachurch organizations.  Seminaries, conferences, theological and ethical co-belligerent societies…

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Church and Parachurch

I have been asked why I seem so critical of parachurch organizations, when I work for one myself.  Good question.  The following thoughts seem apposite. First, there are different kinds of parachurch organizations.  Seminaries, conferences, theological and ethical co-belligerent societies…

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Modern Debate Over Ancient Texts

[Editor’s Note: This is the first post Rev. Wynne wrote in response to Dr. Evans, which was inadvertently removed last week. We repost it here in its entirety.] Dr. Evans has recently graced this forum with some thought provoking comments…

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No Compromise with the World

Thanks to Carl Trueman at Ref21 for posting the following words from B.B. Warfield: We see, then, that the Apostle’s urgency here [“2 Cor. 6:11 – 7:1”] is against not association with the world, but compromise with the worldly. Compromise!…

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Book Recommendation:

Awaiting a Savior, Aaron Armstrong (CruciformPress, 2011)    This is Cruciform’s book for October, and definitely one of my favorites from them so far. The subtitle, The Gospel, the New Creation and the End of Poverty, is a bit of a…

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ANE in an AC World

I want to thank Dr. Evans for his extended and thoughtful response to my recent post on Scripture and the ancient Near East. In that post, I expressed my concern that his appeals to ANE data for reading Genesis 1…

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A new feature

In a shameless knock-off of the Pyromaniacs’ practice of providing a weekly dose of Spurgeon, here we start a new feature: Presbyterian Profundity, featuring quotations from a bunch of old, dead guys who lived, to quote Spinal Tap on Stonehenge,…

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A new feature

In a shameless knock-off of the Pyromaniacs’ practice of providing a weekly dose of Spurgeon, here we start a new feature: Presbyterian Profundity, featuring quotations from a bunch of old, dead guys who lived, to quote Spinal Tap on Stonehenge,…

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“Bring the books”

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.2 Timothy 4:13 “We do not know what the books were about, and we can only form some guess as…

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The Empty House

The fall reminds me of my dear friend Sarah. We grew up together. Sarah has that fiery red hair that blazes like the leaves in October. But we both shared birthdays in November and fall was our season. I was…