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Piper on Machen, Doctrine, and Preaching

Amidst all the hoo-hah out there about whether my pal Trueman is really a chinless theology-lite liberal, why anyone would want to study Lederhosen, whether Schleiermacher would really have spoken cockney dialect with a German accent, and other matters of…

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Robert Webber, Presuppositionalist

I’ve been reading the late Robert Webber’s last book, Who Gets To Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals  (IVP, 2008), and came across these lines: “When we argue [in an evidentialist] way, we…

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Discipling Christian Children

From my pastor’s letter this week: One of the most important things we will do at Second Presbyterian Church is disciple our children to a living, personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  We live in a society that assumes…

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When “narrative” becomes an excuse

Would-be theologians who use appeals to “narrative” (and its function in the theology of the writers of Scripture) as a means of undermining the enduring normative authority of Scripture will find themselves under the searching judgment of the normative authority of…

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Out of Africa

Just back from a week in the Pocono Mountains, speaking at Pinebrook Bible Conference.  While there, I met up with a retired missionary from Scott Theological College in Kenya.  And after some wonderful conversations with him, I decided to return…

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Good Summer Listening

The folks at SovGrace have just announced the C.J. Mahaney sermon archive. You can listen to audio or watch video in their entirety or excerpts. Should be excellent stuff! Also, folks might want to check out the Carl F. H.…

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Pushing the Envelope

Well, I always thought that having 85 wives was OK, but 86????   Come on, mate, that’s pushing the envelope too far!  When does he ever get time to watch the footie???   And, no, he’s not a theonomist or a…