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March 2008

The Conference Season is Upon Us

March 29, 2008

The 2008 conference season is upon us. If you haven’t finalized your plans to attend conferences, you had better move quickly as many of them are set to sell out as they did last year. I will be attending two conferences, and will be live-blogging both of them. The first is a brand-new conference called [...]

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Love Your Local Church – She is Your Very Own

March 27, 2008

It was a real delight to read Tim Challies’ post several days ago in which he described his growing love for and commitment to his local body of believers. It is a post that has been on my mind for the past few days, and I would strongly encourage you to go and read that [...]

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Is Mark Driscoll in a Revival?

March 25, 2008

UPDATEI have had the opportunity to record a video interview with Mark Driscoll, and there are also a number of other posts about him you can now read elsewhere on my site. ****************** I wonder. Do you find yourself strongly affected when you hear about God saving people? If so, then go read this post [...]

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ASK THE DOCTOR – What Do You Mean By Unction in Preaching?

March 24, 2008

In a variation on the “Ask a Blogger” theme, I received this e-mail, which was effectively asking Doctor Martyn Lloyd-Jones a question. “I have been doing some research lately on the revivals in Wales and the ministry of Christmas Evans and have come across an emphasis in the Welsh Revivals and in Lloyd-Jones on unction [...]

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C. J. Mahaney on the Resurrection

March 22, 2008

I have just been watching the following sermon by C.J. It is a great message to watch this Easter Saturday.

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An Easter Greeting

March 21, 2008

I wanted to share a brief video greeting with you this Easter, and to point you to three sermons I have preached that you might find interesting at this time of year. The first two are my Easter Sunday sermons preached the last two years. The third is not an Easter sermon, but it is [...]

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Obama Addresses the Race Issue Head On

March 19, 2008

I am not an American. I don’t like to interfere with American politics. This post should certainly not be construed as any kind of endorsement or rejection of any particular candidate for President of the United States. Last time I checked, only Americans have the responsibility of selecting the leader of the free world! I [...]

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ASK A BLOGGER – How To Seek the Spirit: Surrender to Jesus

March 18, 2008

Yesterday I answered the final question in a series of questions on the Holy Spirit that I have been addressing. My answers to those questions were discussed in the following posts: What is Baptism in the Holy Spirit? How Do I Know If I Am Spirit Baptized? What Are the Results of Spirit Baptism? What [...]

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ASK A BLOGGER – What Will the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Mean To Me?

March 18, 2008

Today we come to the sixth question that my e-mail correspondent asked: What will all this mean for me—will I have to stop being a conservative reformed believer? If not, what do people like me do differently after we receive the baptism of the Spirit in our churches?In answer to your first question, of course [...]

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones Monday – The Spirit and the Word

March 17, 2008

If you have been reading the blog for the last week or so, because of my series on baptism with the Holy Spirit, you might be forgiven for thinking that I was just a raving charismatic. The truth is, I am eager to emphasize the work of the Holy Spirit. But that is not all [...]

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Logos Mac Alpha is Here

March 17, 2008

Its not complete. Several important features do not work yet. BUT, you can now get Logos Bible Software to work on a mac! I really, really like the interface. If you own a mac, and either have a second PC or run parallels there is no no reason NOT to buy a logos package of [...]

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How to Build Multicultural Churches

March 16, 2008

Thankfully, many people today seem to have moved on from the ideas of the “homogenous church growth principle.” I never could see how that whole idea wasn’t just a thinly veiled form of racism, or at the very least, an accommodation with the racism of others. I think I would prefer to be a part [...]

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ASK A BLOGGER – What Do I Do Now?

March 15, 2008

Today we reach the fifth of my correspondent’s questions. It is, in many ways, the most admirable and crucial of all of them. Having not been baptized by the Spirit, what would you recommend that I do now? I began to answer this question in some ways in my previous Ask The Blogger post. In [...]

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My 3,000th Blog Post

March 14, 2008

3,000 posts—that’s some kind of milestone, I guess. It means that while I may not have been blogging for as many continuous days as Challies, I have been cranking out posts at an average rate of over 1.6 a day for almost five years despite my intermittent blog breaks. I thought that I would comment [...]

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ASK A BLOGGER – What of Those Who Are Not Baptized With the Spirit?

March 13, 2008

Today we reach the fourth in a series of questions asked by a reader: What of those who are not baptized by the Spirit? Is it just God’s sovereign choice? Will they just be doomed to life without the full power of the Spirit? The Bible is clear that the Spirit can be quenched. Sadly, [...]

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Chuck Colson Blog Book Tour

March 12, 2008

Chuck Colson has stopped by my blog on his blog tour to promote his new book, The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters. So far the stops have included: Powerblog — The Faith: We Ask, Chuck Answers The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — Chuck Colson Answers My Questions [...]

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ASK A BLOGGER – What Are The Results of Spirit Baptism?

March 11, 2008

Today I move on to the third in a series of questions I have received via e-mail on baptism with the Holy Spirit. What do you think is the direct result of being baptized by the Spirit, i.e. what is the practical result in, say, the life of a pastor or missionary? If we look [...]

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones Monday – On Sealing With the Spirit

March 10, 2008

I have frequently quoted from the Doctor on sealing with the Spirit as I think he is very helpful in understanding the whole concept of Spirit baptism. He explains the functions of a seal, none of which can be adequately performed if the seal is something we don’t know we have! More from the Doctor [...]

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Holy Spirit Baptism – Subsequence Defended

March 9, 2008

Jesse Phillips has kindly given me permission to share here an article he wrote on what he calls subsequence. This is the notion, as I prefer to describe it, that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is distinct to conversion. I prefer to describe this as distinct for the simple reason that the receiving of [...]

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Visit My Wife’s Photoblog

March 8, 2008

My better half has finally succumbed. With a cry of “If you can’t beat ‘em, then join ‘em” she has begun her own blog! You can visit her new online home at: http://andreesphotoblog.blogspot.com/ I am hoping she will still write here from time to time. If you are a fan of her writing, please drop [...]

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