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Yearly Archives: 2005

The word of God says, “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in […]

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Date September 27, 2005
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The scene Mark describes in his gospel of the soldiers mocking our Lord has become a sad feature of our world today. There is a certain peace-keeping force in one country and the local population is angry. There are snipers and car-bombs and ambushes. Suspects are arrested and put in prison and the guards get […]

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Date September 27, 2005
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When we study church history and see who God has used in an unusual way, we normally expect to be reading about preachers, men who have been used to bring many into the kingdom or to give strong leadership. But others were also much used in the Great Awakening of the 18th century: not preachers, […]

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Date September 22, 2005
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My friend the national children’s work coordinator of the Presbyterian Church in Wales writes to me to announce a “Creating a Powerpoint Presentation” Saturday Conference. It will be “A practical session to create a finished PowerPoint presentation” and costs £10 including a two course lunch. You will need to bring a laptop and your Microsoft […]

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Date September 22, 2005
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Towards the end of his epistle, the writer of Hebrews exhorts his readers to lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin that so easily entangles us (Heb.l2:1). Within this single exhortation, we are told something about how easy and how difficult it is for us to deal with our residual sin. We do well seriously […]

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Date September 22, 2005
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. (Eph. 5:22-24) Submission […]

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Date September 22, 2005
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I am one upset pastor. The other day I read about the largest church in America. The auditorium is a refurbished basketball arena with over seventeen thousand weekly attendees. Apparently the building has no cross or any other religious symbols but does boast of two waterfalls and an arcade for video games amongst other amenities. […]

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Date September 20, 2005
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I have been wondering these past days what thinking people (we should all be thinking people!) made, and are making, of hurricane Katrina. The devastation is mind numbing and hard to take in. Thousands killed; hundreds of thousands left homeless; children bereft of parents and parents of children; a great city and many smaller communities […]

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Date September 20, 2005
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The annual Sovereign Grace Fellowship Pastor’s Conference was held on May 16-18, 2005 at Faith Mission. There were about 25 men who stayed through the whole time, with various others passing through for individual sessions. The keynote speaker this year was Alex Montoya. Pastor Montoya is the associate professor of pastoral ministries at the Master’s […]

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Date September 20, 2005
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Clare Asquith has written a book, Shadowplay: the Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (384 pp, Public Affairs, £18.99). Her thesis is not simply that Shakespeare was a secret practicing Roman Catholic, but that he was trained at Oxford and perhaps at an English seminary abroad and that he devoted his career to […]

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Date September 15, 2005
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“For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”Esther 4:14 Not every time period in history […]

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Date September 15, 2005
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“Sir, as to this matter, I am at a point with you;[1] for if I am out of prison today, I will preach the gospel again tomorrow – by the help of God!“ These spirited but respectful words were John Bunyan’s parting shot to the judges who sentenced him to prison for preaching the gospel […]

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Date September 15, 2005
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It seems to me there are three principal ways in which we can deny the Lord; i] First, it is possible to deny him first of all by explicit and forthright denial This is the kind of denial of which Peter was guilty here. In other words, there is a straightforward question, “Do you know […]

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Date September 13, 2005
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Peter’s denial in the courtyard is the most infamous incident in his life. What could have prevented it? The answer to that question is very simple. If Peter had heeded the words of Jesus he would not have fallen. If Peter had prayed, and if he had watched he would not have denied his Lord […]

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Date September 13, 2005
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Books on living the Christian life are a dime a dozen. The shelves of Christian bookstores bow under the weight of myriad titles promising freedom from bondage, secrets of debt free living, keys to loving other people, and a whole host of other practical matters. But the one that has weighed in most heavily of […]

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Date September 8, 2005
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A code Dan Brown left on the dust jacket of his wildly successful book, The Da Vinci Code, hints that his next book will focus on Free Masonry. In preparation, we can focus some of our thinking on Masonry’s “Royal Secret,” as it is called by Albert Pike, a universally-recognized spokesman for Masonry. The “royal […]

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Date September 8, 2005
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On his 89th birthday (August 31) NPR Senior News Analyst, Daniel Schorr, observed that President Bush had “staked out a non-position†on the debate between evolution and intelligent design. Bush had said that “both sides ought to be properly taught in the schools of America.†Then, with manifest scorn, Schorr linked the devastation of Hurricane […]

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Date September 5, 2005
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Dr. Fred Malone of First Baptist Church in Clinton, Louisiana says that his church has weathered the hurricane well. They do have branches and trees down all around them. However, the Lord has been very good in protecting the church building itself and the homes of the members of the church. They do not have […]

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Date September 5, 2005
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1.He lives in another, Gal. ii. 20. He is wise in another, 1 Cor. i. 30. He is righteous in another, Rom. x. 4. He is strong in another, Isaiah xlv. 24. 2.He is very low in humility, but very high in hope. He knows he is undeserving of the least mercy, yet expects the […]

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Date September 1, 2005
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“The Times Literary Supplement, in its issue of 29 July, carried a seven-column article by the celebrated philosopher Jerry Fodor of Rutgers University, which relentlessly demolished the concept of Evolutionary Psychology, one of the pillars of the imposing mansion of orthodoxy occupied by the Darwinians. Fodor is particularly scathing about Dawkins and his leading American […]

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Date September 1, 2005
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The theme of the 16th annual Zambian Reformed Conference was “Missions – The Unfinished Task”. From Monday 22nd to Friday 26th August, the two main speakers, Paul Washer from the USA and Ronald Kalifungwa from South Africa, brought messages that left the challenge of missions looming large before our minds. Paul Washer showed us the […]

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Date September 1, 2005
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Until recently, my family and I regularly attended a nearby evangelical, Protestant church, one which is spiritually sound and has done much for the Gospel over the years. Throughout our ten years in that church, we certainly benefited from the preaching and teaching we heard, but we were also privileged, at times, to take part […]

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Date September 1, 2005
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A date of great significance for the worldwide communion of the Reformed Churches is August 24 – ‘St. Bartholomew’s Day.’ It is remembered for the terrible massacre of Huguenots in France in 1572. They were amazing Christian men and women whose testimony must never be forgotten. I believe that, though often caricatured and misunderstood by […]

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Date August 30, 2005
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“Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church” (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2005) is a new book written by Don Carson. The Emergent (or Emerging) Church is hardly a dozen years old and already it is has reached a level of considerable importance. Indeed, it is argued that the term is out of date; it has already emerged! […]

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Date August 30, 2005
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“The rights of women, what are they? The right to labour, love and pray, The right to weep, with those that weep, The right to wake when others sleep. The right to dry the falling tear, The right to quell the rising fear, The right to smooth the brow of care And whisper comfort in […]

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Date August 30, 2005
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