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Resurrecting Excellence

Over the past few days, on my personal blog, I’ve been posting quotes from L. Gregory Jones and Kevin R. Armstrong’s book, Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (you can find these here, here, and here). This morning I finished the…

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Brief Encounters: The Woman of Samaria

In the second of a series of articles in which we examine Jesus’ encounters with various individuals, this week we take a look at the conversation of Jesus with the Woman of Samaria in John 4. They met at well,…

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Tim Challies’ Summer Reading

I asked Tim Challies for a list of summer reading:   You asked me to talk a bit about my summer reading, so here goes. My reading tends to fall into three areas loosely defined as serious, review and fun.…

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Discerning Who (and Whose) We Are

One of the hardest things for me, as well as the students whom I serve, is to discern accurately our own gifts and callings. Attending to God’s own guidance in that process of discerning is particularly challenging. However, it is…

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The Gospel Coalition’s New Website

Andy Naselli writes: It’s finally up and running: www.TheGospelCoalition.org. Here are a few features to check out: Resources: This links to audio, visual, and written resources by TGC council members. For example, check out the resources for D. A. Carson…

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An interesting approach to sermon preparation

I came across this gem while re-reading the biography of Principal John Macleod of the Free Church. Macleod was Professor of Greek in the Free Church College from 1906-13, minister of the Free North Church, Inverness, 1913-1929, and Professor of…

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Feisty Wright

Thanks, Carl, for the link to the Wright-Neuhaus.  Despite, as you point out, the increasingly whiny stance of NTW’s self-defense, you have to admit that he is pretty feisty.  My favorite, second to his insinuation that Neuhaus was projecting his…