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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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Proof-texting

“Proof-texting” is an accusation that’s sometimes thrown at various works in Reformed theology. Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology has sometimes been […]

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22 December 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: Special […]

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27 November 2021

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We Distinguish: Knowledge/Assent/Confidence

The Bible teaches that true faith in Jesus Christ is essential for salvation.  If you’re going to have eternal life, […]

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27 July 2021

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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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Heretic!

I was labelled a heretic.  In fact, I’m sure that it’s happened more than once.  No, it wasn’t Roman Catholics […]

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14 June 2016

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Ten Things I Learned from Reformed Scholasticism (1)

Though not nearly as often as previously, I still sometimes see the word “scholastic” used as a pejorative – in […]

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19 April 2016

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God our Father and the Address of our Prayers

For this coming Sunday afternoon’s sermon, the Catechism lesson will be Lord’s Day 46.  This deals with the beginning of […]

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15 January 2014

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Accommodation

I’m quite enjoying this book of essays and reviews by Don Carson.  In chapter 2, he discusses “Recent Developments in […]

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29 October 2010

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Richard Muller: Was Calvin a Calvinist?

Links to this essay by Richard Muller are making the rounds everywhere in the blogosphere. If you haven’t had a […]

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4 November 2009

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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Get to Know the Holy Spirit

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Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Seven Wondrous Words

Published 2019

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