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Trouble in Megachurch Paradise

John Seel brought my attention to this article in today’s USA Today. Here are a couple of quotes. “You can create a church that’s big, but is still not transforming people. Without transformation, the Christian message is not advanced.” —…

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Audio Links of Interest

Scott Clark has posted a link to Ligon’s three lectures on covenant theology at Westminster Seminary California (the den Dulk lectures). Nicholas Batzig has been posting links to online sermons by Eric Alexander (here and here). J. I. Packer is…

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Deaconesses

As some readers may know, the role of women in the mercy ministry of the church is a live issue in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).  At Philadelphia’s Tenth Presbyterian Church, where I serve as senior minister, our practice…

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Grimshaw of Haworth

Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters, was also home, some seventy years earlier, to one of the great men of the eighteenth century evangelical revival in Britain: William Grimshaw of Haworth. J.C. Ryle regarded him, along with John Wesley and…

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Turns of Phrase

For my first post since June (so long I could hardly remember how to find the window for posting), I share a couple of apt turns of phrase from my friend and colleague Paul Tripp, who is just finishing a…

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R.T. Kendall agrees with Carl

Regarding Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival, even before the immorality hit the news, R.T. Kendall (who endorsed and endorses the Toronto Blessing) had already emphatically declared that the Lakeland revival “isn’t of God.” Why is he so sure? Here’s what…

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All Souls

I’m in London for a week of lectures at London Theological Seminary.  Of course, London’s a wonderful city to visit, not the least of which reason is the chance to visit places everyone talks about.  So on Sunday morning I…