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“Bigotry in modern parlance…”

“Now-a-days, if a man is very reverent towards the word of God, and very desirous to obey the Lord’s commands in everything, people say, “He is very precise,” and they shun him; or, with still more acrimony, they say, “He…

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The Problem of Evangelical Minimalism

Michael Horton, in an article for Nine Marks Journal, struggles with the question of what exactly is an evangelical. It feels like a renewed storm, or at least a squall, has been gathering around the term “evangelical” lately. More and…

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“An Awfully Freakish-Sounding Story”

You can be sure that if we remove the offense from the Gospel then what we will lose is the Gospel itself. Let us not, in our attempts to bring the Gospel to our culture, present a positive but ultimately…

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“I am not ashamed of the Gospel…”

Euan Murray is a Scottish rugby player that has been making a few waves lately for refusing to play on the Sabbath. Murray is a Christian and will not be playing with his team as they face France this Sunday.The…

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“An Atmosphere of Orthodoxy”

Great Post from Martin Downes: Churches need external and internal defenses against heresies. 1. The external defense comes in the form of clearly worded confessional statements.These statements need to be comprehensive enough to state the truth with clarity and to…

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Sunday’s Sermon

Sunday’s message was part 28 in our current series through Hebrews. It is entitled “I Need You” and is based on Hebrews 10:24-25. You can listen to or download it HERE.

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The pastor’s public persona and private life…

Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting the following insights from Paul Tripp: Pastors, these notes from Paul Tripp’s seminar are worth reading carefully and prayerfully: •The Pastor: Who Do We Think He Is Anyway?•The Pastor: Not Yet Perfect, Still Under…

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God and Cancer

The AP has picked up on Matt Chandler’s story. Chandler is the well known pastor of Village Church in Dallas. His recent diagnosis with brain cancer has given him a platform to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus and the sovereign…