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Month November 2011
Dr Letham, Union with Christ and unoriginal book titles
I’m really looking forward to Robert Letham’s ‘Union with Christ’. It’s not reached the UK yet. On a popular level there’s so little written on this subject, despite the furore surrounding it over the last few years. Reading Bob Letham…
No More Bets at the Glasgow Bookies
Readers of Reformation 21 will know that the Church of Scotland has been having heated debates over the legitimacy of homosexuality for some time. What you might not know is that a steady stream of courageous ministers are taking a…
No More Bets at the Glasgow Bookies
Readers of Reformation 21 will know that the Church of Scotland has been having heated debates over the legitimacy of homosexuality for some time. What you might not know is that a steady stream of courageous ministers are taking a…
Reading Reflection:
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin, 2006) We do not know the exact date of the celebration we now call the First Thanksgiving, but it was probably in late September or early October, soon after their crop of corn, squash, beans, barley,…
Does Your Church Have This Reputation
A little while back, one of the Ref21 bloggers began a series I’d hoped they would continue. It was a periodic quote from someone in Presbyterian history, modeled I think on Pyromaniac’s daily dose of Spurgeon. I’m no scholar of…
Three-to-the-Six!
This year I share my birthday with Thanksgiving. I will be 36. That’s crazy. I was happy to enter my thirties, feeling as if my twenties represented a decade of building, and I assumed my thirties would be a great…
Praying Thankfully: A Thanksgiving Meditation
Do you ever find yourself lost for words when it is time to pray? Most of us do. All kinds of explanations can be offered for this experience, not least of which is the thought that anything we say seems…
Praying Thankfully: A Thanksgiving Meditation
Do you ever find yourself lost for words when it is time to pray? Most of us do. All kinds of explanations can be offered for this experience, not least of which is the thought that anything we say seems…
Preaching Texts You Do Not Understand
One of the challenges that faces the preacher is the extent to which he concedes his ignorance or agnosticism over the meaning of a particular verse while in the pulpit. No preacher wants to lose the authoritative `Thus saith the…