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November 2005

Nine minute Narnia supertrailer

November 30, 2005

HT Justin Taylor for this fantastic nine minute preview of the film that many of us have been waiting for all year.

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So they didnt throw me out of the reformed blogosphere!

November 30, 2005

With all the recent hullabaloo over things charismatic I honestly thought Id be on a slippery slope towards no longer being seen as a reformed blogger! Imagine my surprise to read this Community Blog emtry: “…..to me, the Calvinist blogosphere is made up of what is endorsed by Tim Challies, Phil Johnson, Modergism.com and Adrian [...]

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What Does a Sovereign Grace Church Look Like?

November 30, 2005

Ryan Jones has a great post describing what his reformed charismatic church meetings look like. To be honest though theres a large part of me that says “You really have to be there”. I would encourage those who really want to know what this is like to find a Sovereign Grace, newfrontiers or other reformed [...]

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Confessions of an experiential cessationist

November 29, 2005

Pastor Shaun has some really interesting things to say from the cessationist side of the fence. As I have suspected from previous dialogue contrary to the stereotype I had foolishly built up in my mind there are many of them who really do believe in an experiential relationship with God. This encourages me no end [...]

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Thanksgiving Sermon : The Importance of Gratitude

November 28, 2005

UPDATEIn January 2008, the following brief post was identified as the 9th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 10th most-read post was my own personal favorite, I Don’t Want Balance! I Want It All! Presumably it is a mark of the high percentage of my readers who are also preachers. It [...]

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A Cessationist / Charismatic Question from a reader

November 27, 2005

A Mind Awakeasks “‘what does a reformed charismatic look like in practice?’Answers in a blog post with a comment link here and/or there please…..

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Tell us your story……

November 27, 2005

GospelDrivenLife tells his story of how he became a Reformed charismatic or continuationist : “My own journey was sparked by Lloyd-Jones on the Spirit of God in his sermons in Romans 8. His historical survey made me see that my anti-Spirit-experience prejudice was the minority position of the Protestant era. J I Packer’s excellent work, [...]

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Blogspotting in the mainstream media

November 27, 2005

Any mention of Evangelical Christians in either a neutral or positive light in the British Media is well worth celebrating. We generally get such a bad press over here that the scraps of a neutral mention is worth its weight in gold. So, I was really pleased to come across the first mention of this [...]

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Peace to all……principles for God bloggers

November 26, 2005

This kind of thing saddens me and I have debated about whether or not to give it airtime. This weeks row has in my view not been the best blogging moments of several on both sides. I am not planning on taking sides, but would like to take this opportunity to share some lessons that [...]

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What is a Reformed Charismatic?

November 26, 2005

UPDATE In January 2008, the following post was identified as the 7th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 8th most-read post was my interview with C. J. Mahaney, who heads up Sovereign Grace Ministries. In this post I endeavor to explain that curious phenomenon—a charismatic Calvinist or “reformed charismatic.” There was [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving – with thanks to Bob Kauflin

November 24, 2005

This Thanksgiving, new blogger Bob Kauflin worship leared at CJ Mahaney and Josh Harris reformed charismatic church shares some great lyrics with us: My heart is filled with thankfulnessTo Him who bore my painWho plumbed the depths of my disgraceAnd gave me life againWho crushed my curse of sinfulnessAnd clothed me in His lightAnd wrote [...]

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Talk to Josh Harris about courtship and dating

November 24, 2005

Josh Harris Blogs about his recent sermon on dating. It would be great for a bunch of you intrepid readers to pop over to his site and tell him what you think of it- he links to where you can download it for free. I would be interested in his reply to some of the [...]

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Help! I need somebody! Help! Blogger template nightmares

November 22, 2005

If any of my readers can suss out why my sidebar is floating down to the bottom of the screen I guarentee a gushy note of praise and thanks here on the blog- its a right pain in the neck and I dont really get it!! Attached is the template file: bloggertemplate.txt

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Are you jealous of Josh Harris?

November 22, 2005

Challies Dot Com has a great post where he confesses to being jealous of my fellow reformed charismatic Josh Harris. The humour Tim begins with tempts me to begin my brief response with what I hope is a humorous comment of my own: “Tim you need to realise that since God dispenses grace sovereignly he [...]

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Good News For The Powerless – audio up

November 21, 2005

The audio for my most recent sermon Good News For The Powerless is now available to download

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Calling all reformed charismatic bloggers

November 21, 2005

I am working on a list of Reformed Charismatic bloggers- if you are one and would like to be included in such a list please let me know. If you arent one and I have included you as one by acccident, please also let me know! I will post more about this probably later on [...]

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Good news for the powerless – How the Spirit helps us change : blogging through Galatians

November 20, 2005

Good news for the powerless was the title of my sermon this morning. It was the forth in a series on Galatians. The audio is now up on my Church’s website and concludes this series introducing Galatians. Previous sermon notes and audio are also available: Good news when doubts attack Good News When Feeling Rejected [...]

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Cartoons of CJ Mahaney and other great reformers

November 19, 2005

Hall of Contemporary Reformers has some great cartoons of great modern theologians. The one that I like best is his caricature of CJ Mahaney- I think he captures him wonderfully!

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Has the Holy Spirit rushed on you?

November 18, 2005

It is interesting to note an ESV phrase for the activity of the Holy Spirit. He is decribed as rushing on people. I think you would know if someone rushed on you. This all seems rather apt for describing experience I and many of my charismatic friends share. It is also consistant with John Piper’s [...]

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Do cessationists have a real relationship with God?

November 17, 2005

21st Century Reformation quotes a paragraph from one of my previous posts: “The cessationist who concerns me is the one who does not believe that there is any sense in which we have a relational experience of God today.” and responded as follows before producing some quotes to support his position: Oh for a thousand [...]

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