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Seasonal Reflections III

[Editor’s note] This is the third in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The second can be read here. One of the most beautiful vignettes in the…

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Seasonal Reflections III

[Editor’s note] This is the third in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The second can be read here. One of the most beautiful vignettes in the…

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Don’t Judge a Man by his Books

This afternoon, I had a very rare experience in my ministry at First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi: an open two-hour block between sermon writing and appointments and our Wednesday night activities. And so, I set myself to something that I’ve…

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More on Communion with God

I’m working my way through ‘Communion with God’, the revamped version by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor. It’s excellent. When you’re as dopey as I am the Banner of Truth Gould edition makes you want to run to your mother…

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Placing People

For a while now, I’ve been working with a theory for understanding religious controversy. While I’ve mainly thought about this theory as a historical explanation, it does have its contemporary application as well. Here it is: while most religious controversies…

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Roger Nicole 1915-2010

Roger Nicole died last Friday, two days after his 95th birthday. Justin Taylor has written some reflections here. We, at Reformation21, are grateful to God for a theological giant who did so much for the kingdom of God.

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Seasonal Reflections II

[Editor’s note] This is the second in a series of Christmas-related postings by Carl Trueman. Several will come in this series during the month of December. The first can be read here. The glory of Christmas is the reality of…

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Remembering Two Missionary Martyrs

I just got an email from my friend Chip Stam, who teaches at Southern Seminary. He says: “December 8 is the day on which Roman Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immanculate Conception (the notion that Mary was born without…

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Jesus Power without Measure

When I was growing up during the 1980s in Wales the preacher everybody loved probably more than any other was J Douglas Macmillan. I only heard him in the flesh a handful of  times but each occasion is embedded in…