Yazan: ayong | 31 May 2010 | No Comments
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The Westminster Assembly Project and Reformation Heritage Books are again to be commended for the publication by John Bower of the first in a series of Principal Documents of the Westminster Assembly, The Larger Catechism: A Critical Text and Introduction. Dedicated to the memories of William and Samuel William Carruthers, this volume includes a very [...]
Yazan: ayong | 31 May 2010 | No Comments
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I often wonder if people (myself included) would dress the way they dress at church were they meeting the President of the United States (of course there was those girls with the flip flops). Do we really realize the gravity of this event? Do we take a moment to consider that upon the announcement of [...]
Yazan: ayong | 31 May 2010 | No Comments
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William Bates, “The Great Duty of Resignation,” in Works, Vol. 2, p. 147: It is the perfection of holiness to do what God loves, and to love what God does. Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz
Yazan: ayong | 30 May 2010 | No Comments
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On May 29, 1619, the Synod of Dort was adjourned at the conclusion of its one hundred eightieth session. Convened on November 13, 1618, in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, the international Reformed council answered the Arminian heresy through its canons, arranged according to five heads of doctrine, that affirmed the sovereignty of God in [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 May 2010 | No Comments
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Thanks for the encouraging comments many of you left on my last post. I love to do what I can to support bands that are committed to theologically solid, gospel-centered modern worship songs. Sounds like a lot of you feel the same way. To pick the winners of the free album download I used a random [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 May 2010 | No Comments
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John Calvin (1509 – 1564) on contending with the devil . . . The fact that the devil is everywhere called God’s adversary and ours also ought to fire us to an unceasing struggle against him. For if we have God’s glory at heart, as we should have, we ought with all our strength to [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 May 2010 | No Comments
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Andrew Alexander Bonar, Free Church of Scotland minister, was born 200 years ago today on May 29, 1810. The younger brother of Horatius Bonar, they shared convictions regarding premillennial eschatology, the conversion of the Jews, revivalism, and other such matters. Andrew was a close friend of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, and wrote a biography of M’Cheyne [...]
Yazan: ayong | 28 May 2010 | No Comments
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In his fallen state man is an enemy of God. He not only doesn’t seek reconciliation and entrance into God’s kingdom, but he is daily seeking to further himself from His holy Creator. The sinner’s only hope is a rescue operation—a sovereign work of God upon his heart. And this rescue operation does not depend [...]
Yazan: ayong | 28 May 2010 | No Comments
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Although I am a presuppositionalist myself, the following poem, entitled “Presuppositionalism,” written by an anonymous contributor to The Bible Today, Vol. 42, No. 8 (May 1949), p. 261 (quoted by Scott R. Burson & Jerry L. Walls, C.S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time, [...]
Yazan: ayong | 27 May 2010 | No Comments
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Our friends at MockingbirdNYC connected us with Cameron Cole and the Rooted Conference, a gathering for youth ministry workers who want to speak truth and meaning into the lives of the young people in their care. Cameron and I corresponded a bit about the conference and what the hopes of the organizers are for it: [...]