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Ryken’s new book

I have just received a copy of Phil Ryken’s new (almost) book, Discovering God in Stories from the Bible (P & R) in which he examines the attributes of God from the stories of Moses, Saul, David and Job and others.…

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When male grooming was irrelevant

I will ignore that upstart Smith’s semigerontophobic rant, which merely reinforces the hegemonic dominance of youth, and his stating of the obvious (Of course, I want to define the universe!  There’s nobody else I would trust to do it, nobody…

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New Edwards book

Yale University Press has just released Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in Hands of an Angry God”:  A Casebook, edited by Wilson Kimnach, Caleb Maskell, and Ken Minkema.  The book has a great introduction, the text of the sermon, and selections from a…

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Contextualisation

To contextualise Jeremy’s comments for miserable middle aged men like Trueman for whom New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls are completely unknown quantities, `It’s a bit like when Pink Floyd got back together in 2005. Tense but…

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Well fancy that!

The Knights of St Columbus, a Catholic organisation, have just released the results of a survey of young Americans.  The good news is that 85% of young Catholics believe in God, which, in terms of the proportion of reality to…

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A Layman’s Historical Guide to the Inerrancy Debate

 Both the broader Evangelical church in general and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in particular are currently embroiled in debates over the authority of Scripture as the Word of God.  Because the term “inerrancy” has been prominent in these discussions,…

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Phil’s Word to the People of Tenth

Let me join in the congratulations. Wheaton is deeply blessed to have as its eighth president a man of Phil’s integrity, caliber, and godliness. If you have not yet seen it, below is a video of Phil addressing the congregation…