"May my teaching drop as the rain... like gentle rain upon the tender grass" Deuteronomy 32:2

Biblical Training

Audio Buffet

November 14, 2011

Anytime two figures like John Piper and R.C. Sproul sit down to discuss and reflect on their ministries, one must perk up and pay attention.  During this hour-and-a-half Q

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Hunting Season

November 14, 2011

At Immanuel [http://www.immanuelrpc.com/], we are working through the book of Ezekiel on Sunday mornings. Yesterday I preached on Ezekiel 6, where God explains the coming destruction of Jerusalem by decrying

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links

Weekly Picks

November 12, 2011

Two Trees [http://www.rabbitroom.com/2011/11/two-trees/] - this essay by Alyssa Ramsey at the Rabbit Room is simply beautiful. The Importance of "not" [http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2011/

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female

Female Heart

November 11, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/women-of-heart-disease.jpg] A few weeks ago, in sharing about speaking at a women's retreat, I used the term "

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Reasons For Faith

November 09, 2011

Dr.Stephen Meyer [http://www.stephencmeyer.org/]sat down with R. C. Sproul last year for a wide ranging discussion about the integration of faith and science. The Intelligent Design movement is gaining

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Christian humor

You Might Be An RPer If...

November 04, 2011

[http://reformedpresbyterian.org/]If your child hears the tune to Amazing Grace and thinks 3A, you might be an RPer. If your pastor refers to John Calvin at least twice in a sermon,

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missions

Not a Fair Fight

November 04, 2011

Every Sunday is a great gift from God. But last Sunday...last Sunday our local congregation [http://www.immanuelrpc.com]received more of God's goodness than we have room for: we

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a capella

An A Capella Fella

November 01, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sing-off07a.jpg] Often when those of us in the Reformed Presbyterian Church are asked about our worship practices (someone just called me on

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A Christian Psychology Of And Response To Homosexuality – Sam Williams

October 31, 2011

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-christian-psychology-of/id132458157?i=102148218 Not long ago, Justin Taylor [http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/10/21/the-best-introduction-to-homosexuality-causes-change-

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How Big Is Your Local Church?

October 28, 2011

How big is your church? Jared lifted our eyes in his last post to see that ours is the church universal, regardless of the size of our local body, and we need to

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National Covenanting: A Realistic Solution for the Economy?

October 26, 2011

I’ve been thinking about the current economic crisis, and whether the Covenanter doctrine of National Covenanting is for such a time as this. I thought I would post some of those thoughts

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Architecture

Culture, Contradictions & the Cross

October 25, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/wexner1.jpg] In the Worldview class I am teaching in our church's academy, which is based on materials from Summit Ministries [http:

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How big is your church?

October 23, 2011

Tomorrow morning my family and I will gather together with about 75 other people to worship God. To some, a congregation of 75 is unthinkably small. To others, perhaps it is enviably large.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Communion of the Saints

October 22, 2011

"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner. Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, the city of angels, Lonely as I am,

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Stronger Women

October 21, 2011

At the Women's Retreat last week, I borrowed an idea from Jeremiah Burrough's work on contentment and gave the following definition to the ladies. > The quiet strength of

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Generous Justice - Tim Keller

October 21, 2011

[http://thegospelcoalition.org/resources/a/generous_justice]While reading the twentieth chapter of Acts, meditating again on Paul’s farewell address to the elders at Ephesus, I was struck by Paul’s emphasis

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The seeds of sin

October 17, 2011

As I sit in my basement "office" (a loose term, here meaning a table shoved into a corner beside all the boxes and cement walls), studying the second commandment, I find

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prayer

Strong Women

October 12, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/woman-praying-1.jpg] On the refrigerator in the kitchen at Sycamore, a magnet once held a card given to us by a former

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Christology 101 – James White

October 11, 2011

[http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=4812]Every now and again, I swing over to Alpha and Omega Ministries to see what James White is up to.  If you didn’t

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Bigger Bloggers

October 05, 2011

Our children like to tell the joke, "Who is bigger?  Daddy Bigger, Mommy Bigger, or Baby Bigger?"  The answer?  "Baby Bigger.  He's a little Bigger." As baby

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Finish the Mission: For the Joy of All Peoples - 2011 DG National Conference

October 03, 2011

I just finished listening to this year’s Desiring God National Conference, and I must say that it was excellent! While each speaker spoke with passion and shed light upon the church’s

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Lord's Day Deeds of Mercy

September 29, 2011

[http://gentlereformation.allegrodynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lifechain_texas_allen_2006-10-01lg.jpg] Every year on the first Lord's Day of October, our church joins others in the

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Baseball

Baseball and the Kingdom

September 29, 2011

Last night, my fingers burned as I jumped back and forth between radio stations on MLB AtBat to keep up with the greatest single day of regular season baseball in history. On the

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Jesus

In the end, it's all Jesus

September 28, 2011

I hate trying to play games when I don't know the rules.  I have painful memories of trying to play euchre while still not being totally sure what the point was

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Stephen Charnock- On the Power of God

September 27, 2011

"The power of God in creation requires not those degrees of admiration, as in redemption.  In creation, the world was erected from nothing; as there was nothing to act, so there was

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