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Cheer Up! God’s Spirit Works in Our Weakness

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  • 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…

  • The Lord is My Chosen Portion

    The Lord is My Chosen Portion

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    This morning I’ve been meditating on a phrase in Psalm 16:7: “The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.” What does “The Lord is my portion” really mean? J. Gresham Machen has said that “God is the most obligated of all beings.” Doesn’t that sound so counterintuitive? In our consumer…

  • 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…