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Trueman Down Under

The recent issue of Ambassador magazine, of the Melbourne School of Theology, features our resident celebrity, Dr. Trueman. Nevertheless, he still has street cred: few celebrity pastors get the title “International Scholar.” 

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Commitment: A Solitary Ember

A helpful illustration:   A church member who had been devoutly active for many years suddenly was absent. One cold winter evening the pastor knocked at his door. Actually, the pastor and the church member had been long-time good friends.  …

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Now that’s good Calvinism!

Words: Jo­si­ah Con­der, 1836.  My Lord, I did not choose You,For that could never be;My heart would still refuse You,Had You not chosen me.You took the sin that stained me,You cleansed me, made me new;Of old You have ordained me,That…

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Much Better Than The Daily Mail

A Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant Publications, 2012). With the exception of Augustine’s Confessions, I am not a big fan of Christian testimonies and autobiographies. Generally, they exhibit one of…

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Much Better Than The Daily Mail

A Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant Publications, 2012). With the exception of Augustine’s Confessions, I am not a big fan of Christian testimonies and autobiographies. Generally, they exhibit one of…

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Why?

“Why was I made to hear Thy voice, And enter while there’s room,When thousands make a wretched choice,And rather starve than come?” So asked William Cowper. And so might each child of God ask, with a thousand more questions besides.…

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The Beauty and Glory of the Father

For those who may not know, the fourth annual Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary Conference will be held August 23-25 at Calvin Prince Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year the theme is “The Beauty and Glory of the Father.” Here are the…

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A closing plea

How would you close a sermon? How would you bring to an end a sermon in which you were pleading for sinners to receive God’s great pardon for sin? Here is an example from Spurgeon, preaching from Psalm 25.11 (“Pardon…

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Back to the world of dreams

I return from a welcome holiday (during which the growing murmur of delight at the prospect that I might have been banished, or for some other reason no longer be contributing here, was becoming distinctly audible) to find that life…