Month January 2013

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Review: “The Gospel Ministry”

The Gospel MinistryThomas FoxcroftSoli Deo Gloria (RHB), 87pp, hbkISBN 978-1-56769-061-3 This unusual but highly profitable little volume is a preacher’s own ordination sermon. It was preached in 1717 by Thomas Foxcroft as he set out to demonstrate to the congregation…

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Review: “Lectures to my Students”

Lectures to my StudentsC. H. SpurgeonVarious publishers and editions Every Friday afternoon Charles Spurgeon would head down to the Pastors’ College – of all the institutions in which he was involved, the one that was perhaps dearest to his great…

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Make Mine a Double!

It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas.  While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…

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Make Mine a Double!

It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas.  While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…

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God’s Grace Displaces Us

If you’ve read any Flannery O’Connor, you are aware of her proclivity to take the reader into the darkness of humanity amidst the everyday, mundane life. She shows us that maybe our ordinary is familiar and common, but it is…

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Gordon on Turkle on Technology

The latest edition of Ordained Servant, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s journal for officebearers is online.  Of particular interest is T. David Gordon’s review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by M.I.T.professor, Sherry…

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Gordon on Turkle on Technology

The latest edition of Ordained Servant, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s journal for officebearers is online.  Of particular interest is T. David Gordon’s review of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by M.I.T.professor, Sherry…