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  • 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…

  • Preach Faith Until You Believe and When You Believe Preach Faith

    Preach Faith Until You Believe and When You Believe Preach Faith

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    “Preach faith until you believe, and then when you believe, preach faith. You cannot do anything without faith. Now if you start looking for faith in yourself you’ll never find it.” That’s OK. Nothing wrong with a good bit of cold water in the face. It’s a great way to wake up. It’s better to…

  • 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…

  • A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach

    A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach

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    https://www.faithopc.org/Newlife Here are links to the three talks on Friday and Saturday at A New Life Conference in Long Beach, CA held on April 1–2, 2022. Talk 1: A New Life: Evangelism and the Foundations of Discipleship: https://youtu.be/IrmJaRB-f5w Talk 2: Praying—Together—the Promises: https://youtu.be/WeuWt0Y8Z8k Talk 3: Continuance in Justification: https://youtu.be/B7Vio433lw0 Here is a link to the…

  • A New Life Seminar: Evangelism & The Foundations of Discipleship

    A New Life Seminar: Evangelism & The Foundations of Discipleship

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    I spent the morning putting together copies of Jack Miller’s out-of-print “A New Life” booklet for next week’s seminar at Faith OPC in Long Beach, California. William (Bill) Viss knew Jack Miller since their days together in San Francisco in the 1950s. In the late 70’s, Viss served on staff at New Life Church in…