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February 2007

Berkower on the Atonement

February 16, 2007

I just got my hands on a copy of Logos Bible Software’s electronic edition of Berkower’s Works. Regular readers will not be surprised that I went straight to the book on the atonement. If this couple of paragraphs from the introduction are anything to go by, I’m in for a treat as I dip into [...]

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John Piper Friday – Prosperity Teaching Dismissed

February 16, 2007

Dr. Piper seems to be increasingly willing to speak his mind forthrightly. In a recent piece, the prosperity teachers came into his sights, and he wasted no time in his criticisms. Justin Taylor helpfully extracted the main headings as follows: Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that makes it harder for people to get into [...]

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What it Means to be Spiritually Blind and How the Spirit Helps Us See

February 16, 2007

Andrew Fountain has made a number of his articles available online. One of them, entitled The Holy Spirit and Hermeneutics inspired the following post. According to Henry Virkler, based on the teachings of Romans 1:18-22, 1 Corinthians 2:6-14, Ephesians 4:17-24, and 1 John 2:11, there is a common Christian belief that it is spiritual blindness [...]

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SERMON – How to Define Revival and be Revived Personally

February 15, 2007

This past Sunday I preached on revival. You can download the audio or listen right here using the following embedded player. I have shared my notes almost exactly as I preached from them. They might not make a great deal of sense to someone else, for which I apologise. Hopefully the audio is easier to [...]

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What Was Your Most Romantic Valentine’s Day?

February 14, 2007

I am embarrassed to say that this is the first time I’ve mentioned Valentine’s Day on this blog in all the years I’ve been blogging. I’m not as sentimental about this day as I used to be. Don’t worry, I have at least bought my lovely wife a card, however. But, more importantly, today I [...]

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LLOYD-JONES MONDAY – Revival and Prayer

February 12, 2007

Most Mondays, I take the time to raid my electronic version of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ materials, which is produced by Logos Bible Software. Today’s quote centers on the vital place of prayer in revival: “If you look back across the history of the Christian Church, you immediately find that the story of the Church has [...]

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One Charles Echoes Another Charles

February 10, 2007

Phil is back with a quote from Charles Spurgeon that sounds like it could have come from Charles Simeon. I wonder whether those guys will comment on the great news that Simeon’s works will now live again? “I bless God I love the doctrines of grace, but I never considered the doctrines of grace to [...]

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Charles Simeon – The Full Story

February 9, 2007

Here it is! The full story from Logos of how my e-mail to them led to one of the most exciting pre-pub offers they have had for a long time. Don’t say I didn’t warn you – you definitely have to move fast to get these at the low price! This is an e-mail from [...]

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Tim Keller at Desiring God 06 – Religion versus Gospel

February 9, 2007

This Friday I wanted to highlight again the messages from John Piper’s 2006 conference. I realized recently that I had not, in fact, listened to most of them – I guess I just had forgotten somewhere along the line. I am ashamed to admit, for example, that it was only when my friend, Mark Moore, [...]

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Charles Simeon’s Horae Homileticae to be Definitely Published by Logos Bible Software

February 8, 2007

Clearly the demand for Charles Simeon’s brand of biblically-centered preaching is far from dead. Just over a week ago, as I reported here, Logos agreed to place Horae Homileticae on their pre-publication list. The deal is, when enough people pledge to buy it to cover their initial costs, they will hit the “go” button. Today, [...]

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Revival – A Calvinist Phenomenon?

February 8, 2007

In the introduction to the 1859 volume of Spurgeon’s sermons we find the following provocative few paragraphs: In the history of the Church, with but few exceptions, you could not find a revival at all that was not produced by the orthodox faith. What was that great work which was done by Augustine, when the [...]

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C. S. Lewis on the Need for Plain English Preaching

February 7, 2007

“In both [England and America] an essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English—just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this exam should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to [...]

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READERS CHALLENGE – Spurgeon’s Prediction of a Future Revival

February 6, 2007

I have a clear memory from a number of years ago of reading a sermon by Spurgeon in which he broke off into an extended passage in which he predicted what he believed would happen in the church in the UK. I remember that he spoke of a period when the Evangelical faith would almost [...]

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The Love of God Poured Out

February 5, 2007

Have you experienced something like this? Does reading this make you long for more? If so, join me in crying out to God that we, too, might experience the love of God poured out into our hearts to this extent. Suddenly I felt my heart melting within me like wax before a fire, and love [...]

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MLJ Monday – More From the Doctor on Revival

February 4, 2007

It is time once more to raid my electronic version of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ materials, which is produced by Logos Bible Software. Today’s quote is more from the Doctor on revival – this time it is a list of vital doctrines that are neglected outside of times of revival, yet find their central place during [...]

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John Piper Friday – Piper on Martyn Lloyd-Jones

February 2, 2007

Back in March of 2006, I wrote a long post which referred to John Piper’s article about Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I thought I would use this Piper Friday to highlight Dr. Piper’s article once more. You can read Piper’s whole article over on his website. Piper begins by sharing two quotes that in some ways seem [...]

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