One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Joy comes with the morning

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From the Book of Common Prayer Lectionary for today: Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, And give thanks to his holy name. Fo...

Trinity XI: By His grace

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O GOD, who declarest Thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of Thy grace, that we, r...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Renewing the building

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My father was walking to church in Milton one very cold Sabbath morning early in the 1930s when he saw that the building was on fire. The s...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Our only comfort in life and in death

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Via Ray Ortlund : Question: What is your only comfort in life and in death? Answer: That I am not my own but belong— body and soul,...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

People want a pastor

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Matt Chandler, Tim Keller, and Michael Horton (a Baptist and two Presbyterians), two mega-church pastors and a theologian, discuss the incl...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

"The only sin which cannot be forgiven"

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A long essay by Joseph Bottum, "God and the Detectives," considers the religious detective story. Among those that he finds succ...

Tradition

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Via Justin Taylor “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, ...

Putting God and the Gospel first

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Two Trevin Wax items this morning. First, an appreciative review of his recent book, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

When students pay closer attention...

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Teachers with reasonable skills of observation exercising common sense already knew this. Of course they had to ignore the ed school/in-serv...
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Debating online

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Dr. Moore got a Facebook invitation to join a forum debating Calvinism. He is inclined to discount the value of such debates. From "Dun...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Trinity X: Pleasing petitions

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LET Thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of Thy humble servants; and, that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask su...
Friday, August 26, 2011

"Religious freedom is about gospel freedom"

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Nathan A. Finn, Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been postin...

The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places

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From The Book of Common Prayer Daily Office Lectionary for today : The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Indeed, I have a beau...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Equality

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I've been reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time, I think, since high school. I've watched the film many times but the bo...

Sabbath

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Joe Lieberman will leave the Senate at the end of this Congress and so this book is unlikely to have any ulterior political purpose. The Gif...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Is the only True Church in Milwaukee?

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Peter Berger, a Lutheran, describes Michele Bachmann's former denomination and ruminates about Lutherans, Catholics, the religious comm...
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Scripture and smoke

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Mark Bertrand : "[I]f you love your Bible, you owe [cigarette smokers] a debt of gratitude." He explains .
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

"The message is the medium"

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In a blog posted at The Gospel Coalition about a church-planting conference called "Plant New England" : .... The church-growth ...
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Basic economics

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Well before I took Econ 101 I had read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson [1946], which is still in print. I was reminded of that ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Who are Seventh Day Baptists?

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Dr. Ron Davis asks and answers the question "Who are Seventh Day Baptists?" Seventh Day Baptists are a little known, historic, ev...
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