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Whitefield’s “Sermons”

A quick note: Lee Gatiss has edited George Whitefield’s Sermons in two volumes for Crossway. The two hardbound volumes are available from Amazon for £37.79 at the moment, but the whole shebang is available in a Kindle edition for only…

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Vatican Files no.14

Not an Anti-Pope but an Ante-Pope: Cardinal Martini (1927-2012) and the Dynamics of Present-day Roman Catholicism The recent death of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012) provides an opportunity to reflect on wider Roman Catholic trends. He has been one of…

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Vatican Files no.14

Not an Anti-Pope but an Ante-Pope: Cardinal Martini (1927-2012) and the Dynamics of Present-day Roman Catholicism The recent death of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012) provides an opportunity to reflect on wider Roman Catholic trends. He has been one of…

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Being Born Again

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings, new fears, new joys,…

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Well, what do you know…

In Col 3:10, the apostle Paul describes one of the most stunning aspects of the Spirit’s re-creative work in uniting us by faith to the risen Christ. In that verse, we read that the natural man is, by that Spirit,…

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Once you’ve hit gold……

This is one for high achievers who’ve won gold and then find there’s nowhere to go. I remember talking with Carl after T4G and him recounting the same…….. CRT – ” Levy, I’ve been on stage with the big four, done…

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The clown in the pulpit

The Scottish preacher and theologian Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon on “The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of gospel,” declared: How little must the presence of God be felt in that place, where the high…

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Is this guy the new General Sedgwick?

There are tired sermon illustrations which we’ve all heard before and then there’s General Sedgewick! 3 times in 2011 we had guest preachers who began their sermons with his famous last words. The story goes if you don’t know it but…