May 2013
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Well-read people are less likely to be evil.
– The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket (via prettybooks)
The Law and John Coltrane →
confessingbaptist:
It cannot be said too often that law-keeping can never be the means of sanctification, but it will certainly be the result… The new life of the believer, expressed in a new and active obedience, is itself freedom. “For freedom did Christ set us free.” “Oh how I love Thy law,” cries the Christian. Love now binds him in a manner that legalism never could; but this “bondage” is...
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Patrick Ramsey reviews Versteeg's "Adam in the New...
Adam in the New Testament, by J. P. Versteeg. Published by P&R Publishing, 2012. Paperback, 96 pages, list price $12.99. Reviewed by OP pastor D. Patrick Ramsey. (via New Horizons)
A comparison of Romans 14–15 with Galatians reveals that we need to distinguish between beliefs that are fundamental to the Christian religion and beliefs that are not. An example of the former is the...
joshuadylan:
Am I the only one who doesn’t really like John MacArthur?
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Biblical Theology MP3s
If you want to understand Reformed Federal/Covenant/Biblical Theology but don’t have the time or funds to read books, here are the best in mp3.
Sidney Greidanus
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
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Session 2
Greg (GK) Beale
The Temple and the Church’s Mission
Why Is the New Heaven and New Earth Equated With the Temple?
Part 1
Part 2
Graeme Goldsworthy
The...
April 2013
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Theonomy, Christian Reconstruction, and the 1689 →
confessingbaptist:
The 1689 sets forth a three-fold division of the Law
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19.2. The same Law that was first written in the heart of man, (Rom. 2:14-15) continued to be a perfect rule of Righteousness after the fall; & was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in (Deut. 10.4) Ten Commandments and written in two Tables; the four first containing our duty towards God, and the other six...
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Google Returning Tumblr Results
I don’t know when this happened, but glad it finally did!
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Physical Children or Spiritual Children?
“But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.” (Isaiah 53:10 NASB)
Who is “He” and who are “His offspring”?
How does one become “His offspring”?
“But as many as...
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Covenant Theology Foundations (by Samuel Renihan) →
@DrewMery1689 links to a 2010 Sunday School lecture given by Sam Renihan(1). I have three concerns about this lecture (Note: Like Sam I am also 1689’r but today(2) I hold the “One Covenant-Two Administrations” view over the Republicationist view) .
Mr. Renihan equates the Abrahamic Covenant with the Old Covenant. However, doesn’t scripture equate the Mosaic Covenant with...
March 2013
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Evan Jackson Leong’s ‘Linsanity’ Documentary Captures Essence of Jeremy Lin by Miguel Gonzalez Jr. for Wall Street Journal Scene Asia)
Jeremy Lin stormed onto the global stage a year ago, an Asian-American basketball player who shocked the world by leading the New York Knicks to a string of victories with a fearless playing style. He seemed to come out of nowhere, but Evan...
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Scientists do their work by assuming that every phenomenon can be reduced to a...
– Andrew Ferguson considers the implications of philosopher Thomas Nagel’s provocative Mind and Cosmos. (via explore-blog)
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The fire of the gospel, of life in Christ is the greatest place to be, a place to which everyone is invited, everyone is welcome to come, where there is warmth, conversation, somewhere marked by friendship, somewhere attractive, somewhere to share your trials and your joys, and to sing a song in the middle of it all.
via http://thebluefish.org/2013/01/campfire.html
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This month would mark my sixth consecutive trip to Austin for the sprawling...
– The Current’s Andrea Swensson on why she won’t be returning to SXSW this year (via nprmusic)
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Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way...
– Filed under “Death” from “The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K.”
(Louis C.K. interviews here and here)
“it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27) “God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or...
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Today, March 2nd, is Texas Independence Day! Here’s 18 tracks to celebrate!
February 2013
29 posts