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The Post-Reformation Digital Library

Here is “a collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c.), hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.” HT:…

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Emotivist Ethics

Christian Smith recently published “Souls in Transition,” a study of the moral and spiritual lives of America’s 18- to 24-olds, based on extended face-to-face interviews.  The moral outlook of many young Americans–an ethic based on emotions rather than on reasoned…

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Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Crossway have just published a brand new edition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, edited by C. J. Lovik with superb (breathtaking) illustrations by Mike Wimmer. “If any smoothing of Bunyan’s seventeenth century language plus new colored pictures can set Pilgrim’s Progress…

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Wrestling

No, it’s not about the WWE, though, I did stop by the corporate headquarters once last fall as I was driving along I95 on my way to a theology conference at Providence, RI–on the way back, I stopped by New…

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Tony Merida’s Faithful Preaching

One of the great blessings of moving to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has been gaining the friendship of Tony Merida, teaching pastor at Temple Baptist Church. As we’ve had lunch every other week or so since I got here in late June…

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Why I Chose to Preach on Job

“You’re not going to preach right through Job are you? This is going to be so depressing!” Such, at first, was the reaction of one or two of my congregation at the church door on Sunday morning after I began…