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How to cope with evil speaking

From Charles Simeon (in Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge [Eerdmans, 1977], 134): The longer I live, the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such…

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Imagine what he’d think of email…

From Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (Eerdmans, 1977), 123-4: Although he wrote so many letters Simeon was very well aware how much better it was, if possible, to talk rather than write, especially when a ‘delicate or much-controverted point’ arose.…

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The secret of Jotham’s power

One of the benefits of having children studying and working in Glasgow is the opportunity to spend time with them, and accompany them to Dowanvale Free Church. Today we heard an outstanding sermon by Rev Kenneth Stewart on the words…

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In the beginning…

In the beginning God separated pre-existing matter according to the Dutch professor, Ellen van Wolde. In an article that appears here, Professor Wolde claims the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1 has been mistranslated until — yes, until she came along…

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Celebrating the Death of Meaning

It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services.  First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman.  Both men, in their…

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Celebrating the Death of Meaning

It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services.  First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman.  Both men, in their…

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Celebrating the Death of Meaning

It has been a good couple of months for the celebrating of life at memorial services.  First, there was the celebration of Michael Jackson’s life and then there was Ted Kennedy, enfant terrible turned elder statesman.  Both men, in their…