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I Worshipped “Allah” Last Sunday

Never have I so carefully typed quotation marks. Those tiny dashes keep intact both my ordination vows and my soul. They also refer to my enjoyable experience last Sunday attending an international service organized by the Gereformeerde Kerken in IJsselmuiden, Netherlands. Gathered…

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Come, you children

Just around the corner from our church building is a junior school. We have a reasonable relationship with the school, extending to taking occasional school assemblies, depending on who is responsible for arranging them. Over the last fifteen years or…

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Faith of Our Fathers

I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. On Father’s Day I will be in the same place doing the same thing that I have done for the past 35 years. No, not in my church preaching a Father’s Day sermon.…

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Insider Movements Defined…Biblically

Insider Movement (IM) advocates arrive at their conviction by a variety of different ways. For example, the behavioral sciences are viewed as furnishing a hermeneutical key that unlocks both the Bible and the door into other religions. Other advocates of…

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Insider Movements Defined…Biblically

Insider Movement (IM) advocates arrive at their conviction by a variety of different ways. For example, the behavioral sciences are viewed as furnishing a hermeneutical key that unlocks both the Bible and the door into other religions. Other advocates of…

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Just get on with it

A friend of mine once came to our congregation and, because of the name ‘International Presbyterian Church’ and the links with Schaeffer and L’Abri, expected us to be a large church. I also think, because of my ability to exaggerate, he…

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Jennings and Garner Final Responses

Editors’ Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. The previous installment can be found here. Dr. Nelson Jennings’s Final Response It is indeed a privilege to testify to God’s goodness and greatness, as well as to try…

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Jennings and Garner Final Responses

Editors’ Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. The previous installment can be found here. Dr. Nelson Jennings’s Final Response It is indeed a privilege to testify to God’s goodness and greatness, as well as to try…

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Carl at his best

Henri Blocher recently gave the commencement address at Westminster. As good as the lecture is keep your eyes on Carl in the first 40 seconds really enjoying it and then fast forward to 2.56 and see the battle with sleep…