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PCRT PreConference: Venema on End Times

In my previous post on the PCRT webcast, I neglected to mention the Friday morning pre-conference, with Cornel Venema speaking on “Texts of Christ’s Triumph”.  This, too, will be available for live video webcast.  I open the preconference with a…

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PCRT Live Video This Weekend

For the first time, we are excited to provide live, free video of the 37th annual Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology from Tenth Presbyterian Church, with the theme “These Last Days”.  You can register and view at our AllianceLive! web page.…

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Not from Galatians, Please!

Once while worshiping at a church in Africa, I heard a woman preaching the health-and-wealth gospel.  If that wasn’t bad enough, she was preaching from the book of Job.  I feel similarly about the appeal for unity-without-truth in Christianity Today’s…

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John Stott’s Swan Song?

John Stott’s latest book, The Radical Disciple, has just been released in the USA (I think its been available in the UK for a while). Published by IVP, this has all the marks of a collector’s piece about it. Cards…

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PCRT Greenville Wrap Up

PCRT Greenville officially ended after morning worship this past Lord’s Day after Dr. Duncan’s glory-filled address on “Partakers of the Age to Come.”  But the conference itself is still lingering in the pre-summer humid air of Greenville.  Some highlights: Joel…

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Hope-full Presbyterianism

For some, my title is a bit of an oxymoron. I like to say that I’m so pleased with the cover of my book, On Being Presbyterian, because the people actually look happy being Presbyterian; that always gets a big…

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Don Carson on Living in the Last Days

Christian Focus has published an excellent little booklet by Don Carson, entitled From the Resurrection to His Return: Living Faithfully in the Last Days. It would be a terrific gift for students leaving home or for basic Bible study on…

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Two news items

First, as reported to me by Scott Clark, Dame Helen Mirren has made an appeal to Hollywood to stop portraying the British as evil villains here.  Sorry, Helen, some of us British types wear that as a badge of honour;…