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Exposition and Sufficiency

Under-Powered Preachers Last year a member of my congregation gave my wife and me tickets to the U2 concert in Boston.  The seats were amazing, and the concert was even better.  Bono and company did not disappoint.  But almost equally…

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Exposition and Sufficiency

Under-Powered Preachers Last year a member of my congregation gave my wife and me tickets to the U2 concert in Boston.  The seats were amazing, and the concert was even better.  Bono and company did not disappoint.  But almost equally…

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Adam and Eve

[The following article is taken from the book, Should Christians Embrace Evolution? (ed. Norman Nevin and published by IVP -UK, 2009).  The book it to be published soon in the USA by P & R. Permission to republish was kindly…

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Adam and Eve

[The following article is taken from the book, Should Christians Embrace Evolution? (ed. Norman Nevin and published by IVP -UK, 2009).  The book it to be published soon in the USA by P & R. Permission to republish was kindly…

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Puritan Reformed Conference

August 26-28/Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary/Grand Rapids “The Beauty and Glory of Christ” Speakers include Iain D. Cambell, Al Martin, David Carmichael, Rick Phillips, James Grier, Joel Beeke For more information, see  

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It’s Awesome, Part II

The Royals thundered onto the ice, taking the Cincinnati Cyclones by storm [note action verbs and puns on opponent’s name].  The first period belonged to them, scoring at 3:08 and adding two more before the buzzer.    In the second…

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It’s Awesome, Part I

I played a little soccer back in high school.  Before that I was in competitive swimming.  But during college and seminary years I lost just about all contact with sports.  Last time I followed football the Rams were in Los…

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A Call for Faithful Plodders

From Kevin DeYoung’s Tabletalk article: “My generation in particular is prone to radicalism without followthrough. We have dreams of changing the world, and the world should take notice accordingly. But we’ve not proved faithful in much of anything yet. We…

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Johnny Cash on Commentaries

Maybe you know or don’t know that Cash wrote a biography of Paul, called The Man in White.  I came across a great line in the introduction as Cash recalls the research he put into the book, especially his reading of commentaries.  He quips:…

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A new perspective on Scotland?

The University of St Andrews this week announced that NT Wright is to resign his bishopric in Durham to take up the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity in the School of Divinity there. The announcement may be read…