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Ends and means

I appreciated Ligon’s reference to Derek’s sermon on Ezra, and the need for us to match our personal performance with our pulpit ministry (‘Study. Live. Preach’, below).   That thought was on my own mind recently as I’ve been reading…

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What are creeds?

Timely words from J. Gresham Machen, “The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance,” in God Transcendent, ed. Ned B. Stonehouse (Eerdmans, 1949), 145: That is often forgotten by those who today undertake to write confessional statements. Let us give expression to our…

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New Attitude

The messages (with summaries) from the recent New Attitude conference are now available online. You can hear Josh Harris and Eric Simmons talk about the Word; John Piper talk about fighting for joy and the life of Tyndale; Al Mohler…

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Del Venting

It takes the biscuit when Princeton is calling Westminster Seminary for its liberal agenda. My younger brother Trotter was only telling me the other day that this was a sign of postmodrockery, or some such thing as that. Next thing…

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Oops

Rev Boadicea Von Ribbentrop, as one who sees her role as correcting errant brethren, just reminded me that Blondie’s song was actually “Heart of Glass,” a common mistake, she informed me, that men make.  She is, after all, right.  And…

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Jealousy

Trotter’s just jealous of Sproul, since the only music credit he ever received was a co-writer’s nod on Blondie’s “House of Glass.”  Ahh, the seventies. I’m going back to writing now.

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Shocking Headlines Shake Reformed World!!!!!

Against my better judgment, I bought a copy of Reformed Man Today, that patriarchal periodical of male chauvinism par excellence.  Apart from the distasteful front cover photo of the execrable Trotter brothers, Del-Boy and Rodney, holding copies of their new…

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R.C. Sproul and Van Halen

We’ll be praying for you Steve. You can take solace in the fact that I have already missed more deadlines and driven more editors to drink than you ever will (not because I’m more prolific, but because you are more…