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Visit the all new AllianceNet.org!

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has a long history. Much of its recent history has been on the Internet. The first AllianceNet was built in 1997, reformation21.org in 2005 and PlaceforTruth.org, ChristwardCollective.org, and MortificationofSpin.org just last year. Go now to visit AllianceNet.org –…

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Can Humans Merit Before God? (1 of 2)

Some recent defenders of justification by faith have appealed to the concept of Adamic merit because of what they perceive to be the obvious parallels between Adam and Christ. Christ merited as the second Adam, ergo… How do we understand…

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The Terrible Speed of Mercy

Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O’Connor’s hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of…

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As I was saying about myself…

I profited from Paul Levy’s review of Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp (Carl Trueman today called it a “penetrating review”). In the review Levy makes the following point: “The memorable if somewhat ironic statement ‘The bottom line is this: proud…

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Calvin contra Caterpillars

“Many things which are now seen in the world are rather corruptions of it than any part of its proper furniture. For ever since man declined from his high original, it became necessary that the world should gradually degenerate from…

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“Unio Cum Christo”: a new journal

Readers may be interested to hear of a new journal, Unio Cum Christo, an “international journal of Reformed theology and life” (because it’s important not to undersell yourself). With quite an array of editors, boarders, and contributors, it looks like…

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Dangerous Calling – A Review

Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling:Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Leadership. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015, PB, 240pp. I have been the Pastor of the same congregation for 12 years. I enjoy it. I mean, I really enjoy it. There is no…