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Them that honour me…

Some of today’s Scottish newspapers are running a story about our local school’s girls’ football team. Against all the odds, they beat off older teams from larger schools all over Scotland, to reach the final of a national tournament sponsored…

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A tale of two statues

    I have often felt that there is a wealth of good reading material buried away in the annals of past editions of congregational and denominational magazines. Our own denominational paper, The Monthly Record (its title has not changed…

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The God of the Creed

‘I believe in God…!’ So what? – don’t most people? The number of real atheists in the world and throughout history is pretty small. So what’s so special about these opening four words of the Apostles’ Creed? The answer, of…

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Don Carson Talks About Culture

On the eve of the publication of Don Carson’s new and important book, Christ and Culture Revisited, Derek Thomas caught up with him in an airport somewhere in the far East…. DT:  Congratulations of the publication of Christ and Culture…

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An Interview with David Wells

On the eve of the publication of his latest book, The Courage to be Protestant (Eerdmans, 2008), Derek Thomas asked him some questions about the reasons that lay behind its publication. DT: Congratulations David on the publication of your latest…

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An Interview with David Wells

On the eve of the publication of his latest book, The Courage to be Protestant (Eerdmans, 2008), Derek Thomas asked him some questions about the reasons that lay behind its publication. DT: Congratulations David on the publication of your latest…

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Uganda slideshow

As I indicated earlier, I was able to visit African Bible University in the company of my son Stephen at the end of April. His YouTube slideshow of the visit is here.    

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I Think I See a Bear

I’ve been AWOL again, and after only a few posts at that.  Our family moved.  It was just next door and downhill at that, but it was still a move.  I feel I should post about the obligatory things one…

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Scottish Reformed Conference

On Saturday last I had the privilege of preaching at the Scottish Reformed Conference, an interdenominational preaching event billed as ‘Scotland’s premier preaching and teaching conference’. The chairman, Rev David Carmichael of Abbeygreen Church of Scotland began proceedings by opening with…