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Can Baptists be covenantal?

The answer is yes! Baptists historically have held to covenant theology; the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith makes this fact plain (see chapter 7). More recently however, Reformed Baptist pastor Greg Nichols answers this question in the affirmative as he masterfully expounds the…

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From father to son

Despite the temptation to rise to Dr Trueman’s bait – I can only assume that the man who wrote a book called Histories and Fallacies had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he whiffled out that tosh about Baptists…

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Video killed the Seminary star

The Ref 21 switchboard is jammed with calls ”when do we get the Carl Trueman’s video with Jim Packer?” the people are asking and so I googled Carl Trueman videos and noticed stylistically there’s been lots of changes in my good…

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Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up…

Recently I read a helpful and challenging new book by Dr. Joel Beeke and James La Belle entitled Living Zealously. I highly recommend this volume, which draws from the writings of several Puritans on the subject of zeal and is…

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The joys of serving Christ and His Church

This morning while I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the work of ministry for this week, I “happened” to grab Richard Baxter’s book entitled The Reformed Pastor and was encouraged when I read the following words,   Is…

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A Wonderful Weekend with Washer

For those who may be interested, here is a link to the sermons that Paul Washer preached at our Southern New England Reformation Conference. The Holy Spirit was pleased to own our brother’s preaching with much power and boldness. Truly, I can…

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The beauty of concealed scholarship

Wilhelmus à Brakel offers some good advice to the gospel minister: He ought to use all his scholarship to formulate the matters to be presented, in order that he might express them in the clearest and most powerful manner. While…