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Herman Bavinck’s Our Reasonable Faith=The Wonderful Works of God – corrections to the translation
This is a truly wonderful book, written in Dutch in 1908 with the title Magnalia Dei, translated in the 1950s and called Our Reasonable Faith, and now reissued in the same translation as The wonderful works of God. I have … Continue reading
A possible explanation of some modern Reformed heaviness
I was rereading The Apostle of the North – the biography of John MacDonald of Ferintosh (1779-1849) – and amidst many fascinating and edifying things, as well as annoying and unbalanced things of course, found this: “I addressed them from … Continue reading
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A note to my twenty-year-old self
These are four of the main pieces of advice I wish I had known and heeded the past 44 years: The grace of God in Christ is the centre of Christianity; faith in him and in free justification and adoption … Continue reading
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Loving people – not just not harming them, or evangelising!
Be warm in greeting, show you are glad to see them, in whatever way is appropriate in the moment; have time for them, don’t be in a hurry unless there is a burning building or some other seriously important … Continue reading
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On not being a boiled frog
Psalm 74:22 says, Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long. (NIV) Yes, in our society too, 3000 years later, fools – people who think they are clever and smart and have … Continue reading
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Pentes and Presbies united?
Psalm 33:3 says “Play your instruments in worship skilfully, with joyful shouting.” It’s talking about how we worship God, and I would suggest that some branches of the church tend to keep the first half of the statement and other … Continue reading
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Sing a new song
Psalm 33:3 says “Sing to the LORD a new song.” This cannot amount to a claim that some completely new stage in redemption has occurred every day or every time this verse is read. It must mean “sing a fresh … Continue reading
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Church leadership, one aspect
On the one hand, a point leader is essential – that is a pastor who is primus inter pares, or a senior pastor, someone who is the main leader or leader of the leaders; and this person must see the … Continue reading
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Expressive individualism or Jesus?
We are in a state of ferment and confusion in the areas of sex and gender at the moment – certainly we are if we live in the West and respect traditional Christian teaching and the Bible! What to do, … Continue reading
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A silly cycle, that repentance would break
I’ve been noticing a repeated cycle in my life: I tidy something or improve one of my systems for working, and create a bit more order in my life; then I get excited about this and want to tidy more; … Continue reading
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