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Yearly Archives: 2005

In 1894 a book appeared called ‘Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides.’ It was a collection of personal letters written by Margaret, wife of Scottish missionary John Paton, to family and friends and thus never intended for publication. The book contained twenty letters written between 1865 and 1894. It has now been reprinted by […]

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Date July 28, 2005
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A Definition On the topic of Puritan meditation, James Packer writes, “Knowing themselves to be creatures of thought, affection, and will, and knowing that God’s way to the human heart (the will) is via the human head (the mind), the Puritans practiced meditation, discursive and systematic, on the whole range of biblical truth as they […]

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Date July 28, 2005
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Martin Luther was born on November 10th, 1483. He was a young man of great abilities so his poor father put him to the study of law, intending him to be a lawyer. And he might very well have been a lawyer were it not that on July 2 in the year 1505 he was […]

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Date July 22, 2005
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In the furore that has followed the London suicide bombings there have been affirmations from all our politicians and Muslim leaders that Islam is a religion of love and that the suicide bombers are aberrant misguided criminals and not true Muslims at all. However the suicide bombers would claim that they are the true Muslims […]

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Date July 22, 2005
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It may seem strange to learn that the Bible has very little teaching regarding the maintenance of bodily health. Some understand the Levitical food laws as given to instruct us in proper nutrition and hygiene. However, those laws were given with moral and spiritual considerations in mind, the hygienic benefit there from being merely a […]

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Date July 22, 2005
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What must I do to be saved? Saved from what? What is it you wish to be saved from? Hell? That proves nothing. Nobody wants to go there. The issue between God and man is sin. Do you wish to be saved from it? What is sin? Sin is a species of rebellion against God. […]

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Date July 20, 2005
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If you walked behind the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the old cemetery any lunch time in the 1970s and 80s you would come across a fascinating gathering. A group of poor unemployed Africans, some of them alcoholics, and other HIV positive, were listening intently to another African reading to them from the […]

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Date July 20, 2005
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In an article in the Daily Telegraph (July 6 2004, p.18) some facts were given on the growth of bureaucracy in the UK today, including the following: 1. The Civil Service is now the size of Sheffield.2. Whitehall bureaucracy costs every household £850.5. Just one department – Work and Pensions – employs more people than […]

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Date July 20, 2005
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I had the privilege of being brought up on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland in a Christian home where family worship was held morning and evening. I attended church twice every Lord’s day and was fortunate enough to hear some of the greatest Christian men in deep discussion and debate […]

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Date July 20, 2005
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What’s Wrong with Same-Sex Marriage? by James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, Crossway Books, (Wheaton, Illinois, 2004, pb, 143 pp, $7.99) covers a topic which is presently under much debate both in Europe and the United States. Authors Kennedy and Newcombe offer an easy-to-read Christian response to the moral issue of same-sex marriage. As such, I […]

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Date July 14, 2005
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It is a remarkable thing to note that after all of the centuries mankind has had to sin, the way men deal with their sins has never changed. The first man, Adam, foolishly tried to conceal his shame, his sin, and even himself from the Lord. His fig-leaf covering was first applied in a feeble […]

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Date July 14, 2005
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1. The Christian Gospel Is for Bad People The Bible says “Christ died for the ungodly, Christ died for sinners, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” (ROMANS 5:6; I TIMOTHY 1:15) 2. Some Men Think They Are So Good They Have No Need of Jesus Christ “There is a generation that is […]

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Date July 14, 2005
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With the collapse of Communism in the former Soviet Union in 1989 there began a brief period of religious freedom coupled with a popular interest in all things Western. The old Soviet order was thoroughly discredited and the Russian people hoped that the coming of democracy and private enterprise would usher in a new dawn […]

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Date July 14, 2005
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The great mission of our Saviour’s church is evangelical – we are to go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Too often the church has strayed from its God-given mission and drifted into a “social gospel,” behaving as […]

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Date July 11, 2005
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In one of his books, R. C. Sproul discusses the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. In the course of his discussion, he states that this relationship is a mystery but not a contradiction. That is, it is a mystery to us but not a contradiction in itself. This is bound to be so; […]

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Date July 11, 2005
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Somewhere in the personal library of the new Pope, Benedict XVI, is a leather-bound copy of Calvin’s Institutes, and (surprisingly) a copy of my article, “1 Corinthians 15:8: Paul, the Last Apostle.” In the hundreds of stories that will appear about the new pope, this trivial fact will not appear. In 1988, representatives from the […]

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Date July 11, 2005
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Words from a pop star who died many years ago. Words which are very poignant today: “Who wants to live forever?” According to my Bible, God planted eternity in the heart of men . . . or did He? Why are we so obsessed with living forever . . . not growing old? Millions are […]

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Date July 5, 2005
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The Counter Reformation commenced formally with the Council of Trent (1551-1563), and continued through the First (1869-1870) and Second (1962-1965) Vatican Councils. It is represented today by the less formal Anglican/ Roman Catholic International Commissions (ARCIC). Though these Commissions do not speak with ecclesiastical authority, members are appointed by the Vatican and the Archbishop of […]

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Date July 5, 2005
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Growing calls for infant euthanasia in the Netherlands provide a chilling glimpse of what could happen in the UK if eugenicists and euthanasiasts like Lady Warnock get their way. The Netherlands has the most liberal laws on euthanasia in the world. Voluntary euthanasia was legalised in 2001 for people over 12 suffering hopelessly and unbearably […]

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Date July 5, 2005
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Scanning through much of what has been written and said about the Puritans – even by evangelicals – it is plain to see they tend to get a pretty bad press. Indeed, the name ‘Puritan’ was originally intended as a smear from the start and it remains so for many to the present. In one […]

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Date July 5, 2005
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In mid-June Billy Graham preached for three days in New York. At first this was regarded as his last stadium appearance, but family and friends are not so sure. Graham, 86, is in declining health. In addition to having Parkinson’s disease, he broke his hip last year and was forced to postpone two crusades planned […]

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Date July 4, 2005
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The 14th annual conference of the Italian Reformed publishers ‘Passaggio’ took place in Misano Adriatico between 13th and 15th May. The title of the conference was ‘The Sovereignty of God: Election and Evangelism’ and the speaker was Dr. James White of the Reformed Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, who is director of ‘Alpha and Omega […]

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Date July 4, 2005
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A minister said a church member of his was looking forward to their completed multi-million-dollar building program. She stated, “When people cross the overhead bridge coming into town, they will see a church so beautiful it will take their breath away!”When we heard this statement, the thought came immediately: “My soul! We’ve already seen that […]

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Date July 1, 2005
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“The Legacy of FRANCIS SCHAEFFER – Celebrating 50 years of L’Abri” by Gene Edward Veith was the cover story of the March 26 World. Dr. Veith the cultural editor of World, wrote: “Half a century ago, an American pastor named Francis Schaeffer opened his home in Switzerland to anyone who was struggling with the basic […]

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Date July 1, 2005
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The evangelical world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the beginning of L’Abri in Switzerland by Francis Schaeffer. At his prime, in 1984, he wrote a book called The Great Evangelical Disaster: 1934-1984 (Published by Crossway Books) in which he traced out the downgrade in evangelicalism in the fifty years preceding 1984. How similar […]

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Date July 1, 2005
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