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Our Loss, Covenant’s Gain

Many thanks to Ligon for reporting Aaron Messner’s call to Covenant College.  Aaron has exercised a faithful and dynamic ministry at Tenth Church, and we expect him to make a large difference on Covenant’s campus.  His weekly ministry of the Word…

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Genesis 22, Caravaggio, and the Ram

Belatedly, I write to reflect further on Carl Trueman’s Counterpoint (“Close, but No Cigar”).  There Carl writes about his recent visit to a synagogue and the rabbi’s thoughtful homily on Genesis 22, which included everything except the gospel. As I read…

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What is a prophetic voice?

I hate to break up the hilarity in which my good friends Messrs Trotter and Plectrum-Smith seem to be indulging, but I just spent a few moments looking at the webpage of a leading Emergent figure.

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Covenant College’s New Chaplain

Matthew Bryant (Director of Church Relations) and our friend Niel Nielson (President) of Covenant College have just announced that the Rev. Aaron Messner has accepted its offer to become College Chaplain. Aaron will officially join Covenant on June 1, 2007.  …

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On Heavydentialism

Posted January 16, 2007 Dear Rodney Trotter/Nicholas ‘Don’t Call Me Nicky!’ Mauss, Thank you for bringing to my attention the great work of St. Osiander of Osbourne, (who incidentally was widely known for celebrating the Lord’s Day primarily at night,…

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More rodentine advice

By popular demand I append more wisdom from every TR’s favourite spiritual mentor, Nicholas `Don’t call me Nicky!’ Mauss, the big pastor of that even bigger church in Montana. Such is the depth of his wisdom that, in a recent…

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Mainline Decline, Part Two

This is the second installment in a series of occasional selections from Dave Shiflett’s Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity.  To prove his thesis, Mr. Shiflett must first prove that Americans are, in fact, fleeing liberal churches,…

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Pelagian and Semi-Pelagian Sport

If scoring is the criterion, then basketball is semi-Pelagian, at best.  For a truly Pelagian sport, one would have to consider the quintessentially English sport of cricket, which is much higher scoring than basketball, and where even the bowlers can manage…