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On camps and converts

I’m on camp this week, speaking every morning from Daniel, and a couple of seminars on Revelation. It’s slightly different as a camp because all the kids are from one church; St Nicholas’ Sevenoaks. It’s hardly a gathering of the working…

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Making Faces

One of the most fearsome phrases in all of Holy Scripture is this: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field…”(Gen. 3:1).  The reference here is to the subtle schemes of Satan himself. This “craftiness”…

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Making Faces

One of the most fearsome phrases in all of Holy Scripture is this: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field…”(Gen. 3:1).  The reference here is to the subtle schemes of Satan himself. This “craftiness”…

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Nicely browned

Charles Spurgeon was not the only man of God to be labouring during the heyday of the gospel’s progress in Victorian London. On the other side of the river lived and worked that most excellent servant of Christ, Archibald Geikie…

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Follow up on Alec Motyer

A couple of people have emailed me to tell me that both the monographs I cited in my previous post are online   Old Testament Covenant Theology The Revelation of the Divine Name in Scripture   David Gibson also assures…

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Sitting with the kids!

I’ve spent the last 3 Sundays going to church with my family and sitting with them. I want to recommend it to those of us who are preachers. There are men who can’t handle sitting in the congregation they have…

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Belfast and Bookshops

Three great weeks in Northern Ireland, where even the friendliest greeting in the street can sound aggressive because of the sheer volume most men speak at. It’s a wonderful place, full of beautiful scenery, fried breakfasts with absurd amounts of different breads…

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An explanation

I have been somewhat relieved to discover the reason for a slight slowdown in my recent output. It is not that I have been busy in the church, or that I have taken a holiday with my family, or that…