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Personal Review of the Year

December 15, 2008

It’s that time of year again. As I have done in previous years, I thought I would take the opportunity to reflect on the year that was. This post will consider personal matters, family matters, and my church. The year began with my regular tradition of putting the blog onto autopilot to give me time [...]

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Death By Love – Pastoral Application of the Atonement by Driscoll and Breshears

October 11, 2008

I want to introduce you to a very unusual book by Mark Driscoll and his writing buddy and professor, Gerry Breshears. I would go so far as to say that this is a unique book in that I have never seen anything quite like it. If their first book together, Vintage Jesus, was a light [...]

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SERMON – God’s Gift of Life (Exodus 20:13)

April 28, 2008

Here are notes from a sermon I preached on the 27th April at Jubilee Church. The mp3 is available to download here or listen to using the following embedded player- “You shall not murder.” (Ex 20:13) Ok, right at the outset, do we have any murderers here? No? Anyone planning on committing a murder? No? [...]

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SERMON – Work, Rest, and Play: The 4th Commandment

April 6, 2008

Yesterday morning I preached a sermon at Jubilee. The following notes are almost identical to the notes I used while preaching. You can download the audio or listen to it right here. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is [...]

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Review of the Blog – July to August: TULIP and Together On a Mission

December 21, 2007

Before going on a summer break, I ended with a post which expresses clearly the driving passion behind my life—I DON’T WANT BALANCE, I WANT IT ALL! Other than that, and the posts on the atonement I listed in yesterday’s review, July was totally dominated (and rightly so) by Together On a Mission. This conference [...]

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TOAM07 – Session 1: Stephen Van Rhyn on Exodus 32

July 17, 2007

Stephen van RhynStephen is the Lead Elder of Jubilee Community Church in Cape Town, South Africa. He is married to Anna and has two young boys, Josh and Ben, and one daughter, Bethany. See also Andrew Fountain’s notes from this talk, Leadership Lessons From Moses and Aaron. Together On a Mission 2007 continues to have [...]

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The Atonement – The Historical Background to the Cross

April 11, 2007

In a previous post in this series on the atonement, we asked, “Does the Cross of Jesus Matter?” Today we will look at the historical background surrounding the cross in the Bible. You will find a list of some of the most recent posts about the atonement from my blog at the end of this [...]

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Loving God – A Guide for Beginners

April 4, 2007

Today we draw to a close our series on the attributes of God—which has been inspired by the T4G Statement—by publishing an article which, in an abridged form, has already been published in the online Comment magazine. The article addresses the nature of God, but focuses on the fact that we need to learn to [...]

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T4G Articles 5-6 – The Attributes of God and the Trinity

March 30, 2007

The next two articles in the Together for the Gospel Statement discuss the nature of God. The concept of the Trinity is so entwined with God’s attributes and who He is I have decided to roll these two articles into one. I have already posted an extensive set of notes and an audio on the [...]

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AUDIO – The Attributes of God: What is God Like?

November 28, 2006

At Jubilee we have been doing a series of talks this autumn, each one lasting about an hour, during which we attempt to instruct the hearer to a greater extent than is possible in our Sunday morning sermons. One of the ones I did – which was on the subject of “What is God Like?” [...]

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Piper Friday (Romans 8) God DID Punish Sin in Jesus

June 9, 2006

I seem to have stirred up a lot of interest with my post on God Killing Christ. I thought I’d ask John Piper to spring to my defence! This is very much how I see this verse, do you agree with what John Piper says in What the Law Could Not Do, God Did, Sending [...]

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More T4G Nuggets of Truth

May 1, 2006

Grace Full Words has a great post entitled “T4G Nuggets of Truth ” with yet more quotes from the conference. These are the ones that stood out to me but there are more over on his blog!Mark Dever“The Apostles were ministers not masters.” “We are not to write the mail, we are only to deliver [...]

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January 7, 2006

links for 2006-01-07 Google Pack A great free software collection that will install and update a whole bunch of really useful software including firefox and Adobe PDF reader. Will they ever stop having great ideas? (tags: google web tech free software) Time Management for the Glory of God Girltalk are ceasing the opportunity the New [...]

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Around the sermon sites…..

June 2, 2005

Phil Johnson is preaching through Galatians whilst at the same site, Don Green is preaching on the Beatitudes from Matthew 5. Meanwhile, John Stott (yes he is still preaching!) and others from All Souls are preaching through the gospel of John. C.J.Mahaney, Josh Harris and the rest from covenant life church are preaching through Acts [...]

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The Toronto Blessing – When The Church Seemed To Be Going Mad

May 15, 2005

UPDATEIn January 2008, the following post was identified as the 12th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 13th most-read post was my post concerning Bishop Tom Wright’s response to John Piper. The post below was republished from an article I wrote many years ago. In some ways it was this article [...]

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Law and Grace

December 20, 2003

Recently I have been preaching on the life of David. Powerpoint files are available for three sermons David the servant king, The strength of the King and The character of the King The last one speaks a fair bit about law and the Christians attitude to it. One of my hearers has posed me a [...]

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