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  • Martin Luther to George Spalatin, 21 August 1544

    Martin Luther to George Spalatin, 21 August 1544

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    To Doctor George SpalatinA man to be highly respected in Christ,Superintendent of the churches in Misnia,Most faithful pastor to the people of Altenburg, and one most dear to his own Lord. Grace and peace in the Lord, and the consolation of the Holy Spirit, Amen. I deeply sympathise with you, my dearest Spalatin, and I…

  • Continuance in Justification by C. John Miller, 11 April 1979

    Continuance in Justification by C. John Miller, 11 April 1979

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    I wish to affirm that faith alone is the exclusive means for the believer’s continuance in justification. In the divine act of initial justification, faith alone obtains God’s once-and-for-all pardon and free acceptance. The same is true for justification as an ongoing manifestation in the life of the believer. My sins that are daily confessed…

  • Grace and the Pastor’s Work

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    The pastor functioning as a servant and brother knows that work is the operative word for his calling: the pastor is a working model for his people. Like Epaphroditus he may be called to labor in self-giving right to the door of death (Phil 2:28–30), to study diligently as a scribe of the kingdom (Matt…

  • Abandoning the Idea of a Calvinist Remnant

    Abandoning the Idea of a Calvinist Remnant

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    This morning I listened to a Glenn Beck interview with Voddie Baucham. Using the Old Testament concept of a “remnant,” and quoting Reformed leaders J. Gresham Machen and Abraham Kuyper, these men uncritically presupposed a remnant theology to support their views of the world today. Since Christians often assume a “remnant theology” to support our…

  • Arrived in Vicenza

    Arrived in Vicenza

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    Sunday, I preached at New Life Vicenza from Mark 14:27–31 (Luke 22:31–34). I will be preaching this week from Mark 14:32–42. NLV has been working through the book of Mark and I am coming alongside them and joining in what they are already doing. While I greatly enjoyed preaching the gospel Sunday morning, I enjoyed…

  • A Skeptic Witnessing to Skeptics

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    [My] encounter [in 1950 with Dr. Alfred Fisk, a liberal philosophy professor known as “The Lion of San Francisco State University”] was a crisis in a positive sense for me, a defining encounter with merely human faith. The Holy Spirit enabled me to reject it emphatically. Fisk was believing where he should be skeptical. He…