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Gone to the Dogs?

You can learn a lot by paying attention to your dog.  We have Monty, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.  Monty […]

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16 May 2024

Monty Thanksgiving

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woman in white tank top praying on a bed
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Pastoral Q & A: How Often Should I Confess My Sin?

The Bible teaches us that Christians are people who repent from sin.  To repent is to have a change of […]

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23 August 2023

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Hearty Piety to Stir Your Soul to Prayer

Into His Presence: Praying with the Puritans, Tim Chester.  Epsom: The Good Book Company, 2022.  Hardcover, 207 pages. The Puritans […]

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13 February 2023

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Pastoral Q & A: Are More Prayers More Effective?

Questions abound when it comes to prayer.  I was recently asked by a parishioner whether having more people pray would […]

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13 June 2022

more prayers sanctification

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Three Depressing Doctrinal Downers

The gospel is meant to encourage believers and give them hope in Jesus Christ.  Regrettably, there are doctrinal errors which […]

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7 February 2022

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Know Your Enemy — and Your Father

The earth can be a dangerous place.  In some places there are animals that will eat people, for example.   One […]

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24 August 2021

1 Peter 5:8 lions Satan Satan's strategies

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We Distinguish: Essentially/Personally

Theological distinctions matter.  We need them for sound theology.  That theology then goes on to inform how we think and […]

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31 May 2021

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What’s the Point of Prayer?

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27 June 2020

Why pray?

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Two Relationship Cripplers

As a pastor one of my chief goals is to see the believers entrusted to my care grow in having […]

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11 September 2018

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New Liturgical Help

One of the challenges faced by pastors is the organization of public prayer.  I have long used a document for […]

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23 May 2018

thanksgiving and intercessory prayer

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woman in white tank top praying on a bed
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Absurdity

Can we pray to Jesus?  This is a question I’ve answered countless times, both in sermons and here on my […]

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28 February 2017

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Eric Liddell and the Transformative Power of Prayer

I quite enjoyed David McCasland’s biography of Eric Liddell.  My generation remembers Liddell because of Chariots of Fire, the somewhat […]

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3 December 2015

Eric Liddell

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Calvin’s Prayer Following His Lecture on Ezekiel 3:18-20

This coming Sunday we have the ordination/installation of office bearers at the Providence Canadian Reformed Church.  I plan to preach […]

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30 April 2015

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Book Review: Prayer

Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God. Timothy Keller, New York: Dutton, 2014. Hardcover, 336 pages, $31.00. There is a […]

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8 January 2015

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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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