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Irresistable Grace

SERMON – A Song Of Hope – Psalm 121

September 5, 2008

On the 24th of August, I preached a sermon at Jubilee during our summer series on some famous psalms. I took Psalm 121, which served as a starting point for me to share some of the most important planks of my personal doctrinal framework—a framework that has sustained me through hard times.
As blogging around here [...]

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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 is [...]

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Sermon – ALIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST – EPH 2:1-10

September 24, 2007

This is some notes from a sermon I preached last Sunday. You can download the audio or listen to it right here with this player.The following notes havent gone through my usual ‘tidying up’ process and I thought I would share them with you without any real editorial input just so you can see [...]

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The Unstoppable Saviour – Irresistible Grace

August 29, 2007

As regular readers will realize, this week I am swiftly working through the glorious doctrines of grace—the so-called “TULIP.” Today we reach irresistible grace.
Today’s first quote comes once more from Charles Simeon:
“A river flowing with a rapid and majestic current to the sea would defy the efforts of the whole world to turn it back [...]

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SERMON – Reviving Prayer – 1 Kings 17:1 to 2 Kings 2:14

February 27, 2007

The following is a full set of notes, including background information and quotes I used whilst preparing my sermon entitled, “Reviving Prayer,” which was preached at Jubilee Church on the 25th of February 2006. Much of this material was never designed to form part of the sermon — instead it is, if you like, part [...]

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A Muslim nation?

January 21, 2006

In 21st century Britain, at least one half-filled classroom told a story recently.  My friend, who arrived at the end of the day to pick up her son couldnt understand where all the children were.  When the teacher explained that it was Eid, my friend realised afresh that the UK is currently well on the way to becomming a [...]

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Calvinistic newbie

January 3, 2006

My friend Dave Routlege shows his calvinistic training in his commentary about the history of his blog (which I helped him set up) arose. Astute readers will notice the correspondence to the five points of calvinism which cannot have been accidental (for more on the five points of calvinism follow the links at my post [...]

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Is the simple gospel really calvinism?

February 12, 2005

Ales Rarus has now made himself really clear. I can understand what he is saying, but struggle to recognise it as Biblical. You see, Ales seems to have understood instinctively what many an Arminian has tried to deny- if we accept that man really has a totally free will, that gives man some [...]

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I – Irresistable grace (Five Points of Calvinism, Part 4)

December 2, 2004

Here we are coming almost to the coup de grace of these five points. I g you have understood all of the others and can accept them then this will be as sweet to you as reaching the very sight of the top of the mountain you are climbing. It is not quite [...]

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