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Is It Abuse? — Highlights

I can’t stress enough how important this book is for pastors and elders. We can’t be naive about the presence […]

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13 December 2021

Darby Strickland Divorce domestic abuse domestic violence marital rape

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Spiritual Impact of Abuse on Children

I’ve been reading this book by Darby Strickland for a few weeks now. I can only take it in small […]

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9 December 2021

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Biblical Joy

Like many other pastors, I’ve often tried to explain the true depth and breadth of biblical joy. I don’t think […]

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30 November 2021

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Is God a Hypothesis?

I’ve just published my critique of Stephen Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis at Creation Without Compromise — click here […]

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29 November 2021

Stephen Meyer

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Science and Loss of Faith

Some years ago, during the creation/evolution debates in the Canadian Reformed Churches, the claim was made that young people were […]

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23 November 2021

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Discerning Devotionals

Over the years, I’ve received many requests from people looking for devotional literature.  The one person wants a book of […]

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16 November 2021

Charles Spurgeon Devotionals Johann Gerhard Peter Feenstra Peter Holtvluwer Petrus Dathenus Thomas Watson

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What are FRCA Pastors Reading?

Last week we had our biannual Free Reformed ministers conference in Western Australia. One of the great things about such […]

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1 November 2021

FRCA Ministers Conference 2021

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Damned Lies

Don Shipley’s purpose in life is to expose fake Navy SEALs (like the one portrayed above).  There are heaps of […]

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19 October 2021

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Does the Bible Advocate Genocide?

I’m really impressed with this new book by Michael J. Kruger. Through a series of letters to his daughter Emma, […]

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5 August 2021

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I Recommend

This past week, I shared the following links on social media and I think they’re worth sharing here too: When […]

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12 June 2021

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Have Muslim Friends?

Samuel Green’s Where to Start With Islam: A New Approach to Engaging with Muslim Friends (Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019) is […]

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1 June 2021

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Mission and Reformed Covenant Theology

I don’t normally review multi-author collections of essays and this isn’t going to be an exception to that. I just […]

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9 March 2021

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Smoking

Let me share one more little bit of this highly recommended book on living a holy life. Chapter 5 is […]

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19 February 2021

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“Is it ok to do X on Sundays?”

I’ve just finished Sinclair Ferguson’s Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification. As with all Ferguson’s books, this one is a […]

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18 February 2021

Sinclair Ferguson The Fourth Commandment

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Rev. Wes Bredenhof (B.A., M.Div., Th.D.) is pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Launceston, Tasmania. Read More
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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Get to Know the Holy Spirit

Published 2024

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Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Seven Wondrous Words

Published 2019

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