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Duguid to Westminster

Congratulations to Westminster Theological Seminary for their wise appointment of Dr. Iain Duguid as Professor of Old Testament. I have long been helped by Dr. Duguid’s outstanding work. Westminster Bookstore is currently offering three of Dr. Duguid’s commentaries for the…

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Child Sexual Abuse in the Church

Today’s episode of Mortification of Spin is dedicated to a sober and timely subject: child sexual abuse in the church. We interview Dr. Diane Langberg who has spent years counseling both victims and church leaders concerning this tragic reality. Among the issues…

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Sunday’s Sermon

On Sunday I preached part 14 in our series through Acts. It is entitled “The Honor of Being Dishonored for Jesus” (Acts 5:33-42). You can listen to it HERE.

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Pastor OR Movement Leader: Choose You This Day

Liberate (Tullian Tchividjian’s latest vehicle) seems to be morphing rather quickly into a denomination complete with a directory of churches. Pause for a long sigh… What is it these days with pastors feeling the need to lead movements? In seeing the Liberate site today,…

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Pastor OR Movement Leader: Choose you this day…

Liberate (Tullian Tchividjian’s outfit) seems to be morphing rather quickly into a denomination complete with a directory of churches.  Pause for a long sigh…  What is it these days with pastors feeling the need to lead movements? In seeing the…

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“A Mighty Battle”

From Fred Zaspel’s excellent The Theology of B.B. Warfield: For nearly a century before Warfield arrived on its faculty, Princeton Seminary had stood out as the scholarly bastion of the historic Reformed faith. And due in large measure to the…

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Making a spectacle of ourselves…

This is what Carl has to say about the latest Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit: In this remarkable age, where emoting in public comes as standard, where all disagreement is taken personally and requires online histrionics, and where the boundaries…

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Protecting our little ones

Over at Ref21 I have posted on the ugly reality of child sexual abuse within the church. It is a wickedness of massive proportions when children are sexually abused. However, when a child is used for the sexual gratification of…