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A Prayer for Pastors, Part 9

After a brief hiatus — okay, it has been eight months — I return to Dr. Ridding’s litany for pastors: “From weariness in continuing struggles, from despondency in failure and disappointment, from over-burdened sense of unworthiness, from morbid fancies of…

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George Robertson in the Blogosphere

Thankful that my friend, Dr. George Robertson, senior minister at The First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, is in the blogosphere. And very thankful that he posted this great story from Hudson Amerding, late president of Wheaton College.

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Happy New Year to Ref21 readers

Starting Monday, and every weekday thereafter during 2010, Ref21 will inlcude a brief devotional blog based on a reading from McCheyne’s famous calendar. Check the front page on Monday for the link (it should appear on the left hand side in…

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In the Palace Beautiful

A happy and blessed 2010 from Bonnie Scotland. I have been dipping again into Pilgrim’s Progress, and was very moved by the passage in which Bunyan describes Christian being entertained in the Palace Beautiful, situated between Hill Difficulty and the…

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The Joy of the Reformed

I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church.  In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant.  Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism.  Many of my friends, both ministers…

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The Joy of the Reformed

I wasn’t born and raised in the Reformed church.  In other words, I am a Reformed immigrant.  Like many people in the Reformed church today, I migrated out of broad based evangelicalism and non-denominationalism.  Many of my friends, both ministers…

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Christmas Carols

As always, I was deeply blessed by special services of worship celebrating the birth (and life and death and resurrection) of Jesus the Christ.  Of particular joy and comfort this year were the following verse from Paul Gerhardt (one of the…