The Lamb

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Little Lamb who made thee          Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice!          Little Lamb who made thee          Dost thou know who made [...]

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Since I’m in the mood to highlight other important articles, I want to direct your attention to an important article that I linked to Wednesday by Mark Snoeberger about music. Snoeberger’s basic point is the the idea that aesthetics is unimportant for Christians and purely preferential is a novel idea that runs contrary [...]

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Tuesday I linked to an important article by Carl Trueman about the sufficiency of Scripture. I believe this article is so important that I’d like to highlight a few of his points here.

Trueman makes an intriguing statement in his article:

There is a sense in which we might say that [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series A Sound Church

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series”A Sound Church”

(The articles in this series were originally written for publication in the local newspaper of the town in which I pastor.)

Last week, I proposed that we would do well to consider what God looks for in a church, and our first characteristic [...]

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In October of 1845, after 33 years away from the United States, Adoniram Judson, the first American missionary to Burma, returned to his homeland in Boston, MA, just days after his second wife died.  Upon his arrival, he was greeted by the announcement of a public meeting two days later for the purpose of welcoming [...]

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As a shepherd of the flock of God, one of my most important responsibilities is to be on the lookout for potential threats—those teachings or teachers that jeopardize the spiritual well-being of the flock entrusted to me by God. The author of Hebrews writes regarding shepherds, “They are keeping watch over your souls, as those [...]

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“Where many were gathered together praying” (Acts 12:12)

These words are part of the story wherein Peter is imprisoned and then miraculously delivered. It is filled with great and solemn instruction that every Christian should deeply consider

1. The early church believed in prayer.

The prayer meeting was a regular feature of the early church. If [...]

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Dear Les,

Somewhere C. S. Lewis notes that friends are people who look at the same things. I first noticed what you were looking at during the mid-1990s when I read your preface to Doug McLachlan’s Reclaiming Authentic Fundamentalism. I was surprised that a fundamentalist insider—the president of a prominent fundamentalist college—would take the [...]

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