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Mark Pickett of Brighton was a student in Aberystwyth twenty years ago, and for many years he, his wife, and their three children have been living, studying, and working in Nepal. He has just written a simple commentary on Genesis in one of the Indian languages — actually their first commentary on Genesis. I recently […]

We are asking the question today ‘How do we assess hymns, and how do we assess hymn-books?’ I hope to do three things. Firstly I want to make a general observation about singing in the New Testament. Then I want us to look at Paul’s instructions in Ephesians and Colossians. Then I want us think […]

This is the final part of this series. Please click for Part I, Part II, and Part III. There is also unease we have with Dr Klaas Schilder. These would be in these areas:– 1. The polemics which finally resulted in the trial, the suspension from office, the schism and the new denomination. I am […]

This article is a continuation from Part I. There were some weaknesses in Abraham Kuyper. 1. Kuyper’s approach to the Bible was not uniformly helpful because his preaching was not that of the careful exegete. At times his sermons were more like lectures than expository addresses. He would, for example, seize on single words in […]