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Some thoughts on pulpit methodology

There is a philosophy current among evangelical preachers that one is not really preaching unless one is expounding and explaining a book of the Bible theme by theme, passage by passage, week by week. In some places, as I have…

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Pray for Joni

Be in prayer today for our friend Joni Eareckson Tada–a true trophy of God’s grace–who is undergoing breast cancer surgery this afternoon. Here is a message from her.

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Summer Reading

We are fixing to take some time away for vacation after the PCA General Assembly. Beyond wandering around the mountains of Western North Carolina, one of the things to which I look forward is doing some summer reading. Here’s what…

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Wilhelmus à Brakel

  Ref21 readers may be interested to know that the The Christian’s Reasonable Service (4 Vols) by Wilhelmus à Brakel is available for download in pdf format (terrific for the Ipad!) from the translator’s (Bart Elshout) web page here. On the published…

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The spirit and practice of Sabbath keeping

We had an excellent meeting in Stornoway last night at which Ian Hamilton spoke on ‘the spirit and practice of Sabbath keeping’. I’m not sure why the confessional position of the first day of the week being the Christian Sabbath…

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In Memoriam, James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000)

June 15 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of James Montgomery Boice, who was for thirty-two years the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, the dean of Reformed pastor-scholars in his generation, and my beloved pastor.  The enduring…

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In Memoriam, James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000)

June 15 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of James Montgomery Boice, who was for thirty-two years the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, the dean of Reformed pastor-scholars in his generation, and my beloved pastor.  The enduring…

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Consider how you listen

While I was preaching in Birmingham, England recently, a colleague passed on a little booklet of 32 pages by Christopher Ash entitled Listen Up!: A practical guide to listening to sermons. What a gem it is! While there are many…

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Liking, Lusting, Loathing

Interesting article in the June 2010 Harvard Business Review. Prof. Uzma Khan and colleagues did a study in which they awarded a gift card to an electronics store to people who completed a word puzzle. Half the recipients earned the…