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Through The Eyes Of Others
What happens when a police sketch artist draws sight unseen images of women, firstly based on their self-description, and then, secondly, as another person describes them? Even if you don’t like their...
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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 16
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 16 Chapter 9 – Of Free Will I. God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature...
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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 2
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 2 3. Q. Where do you learn of your sin and its wretched consequences? A. From the law of God. 4. Q. What does the Law of God require of us? A. Jesus Christ teaches...
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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 3
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 3 6. Q. Did God create man evil and perverse like this? A. No. On the contrary, God created man good and in his image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so...
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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 4
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 4 9. Q. Is not God unjust in requiring of man in his Law what he cannot do? A. No, for God so created man that he could do it. But man, upon the instigation of the...
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The Testimony Of Rosaria Butterfield
My wife will be interested in this video. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s website describes her as “a former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University. After her conversion to Christianity in...
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When A Billionaire And A Millionaire Brawl On A Footpath (via David Cook)
David Cook writes about the stoush that has all the features of one of those red-neck reality shows, except this time the combatants are filthy rich. While it may seem that these two are simply...
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Two New Posts From David Cook
Two new articles written by David Cook (moderator-general of the Presbyterian Church) have been posted at the Presbyterian Church of Australia website. One is a thematic followup to a previous post...
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Created For Relationships
From Tim Keller: Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin. — Timothy Keller (@timkellernyc) June 30, 2014
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People Prefer Electric Shocks To Being Alone With Their Own Thoughts For...
This seems so weird, but is based on the premise of being without company, phone, pen, paper, book, music or anything. The whole situation stands at odds with the observations about having too much to...
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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 16 Chapter 9 – Of Free Will I. God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature...
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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 3 6. Q. Did God create man evil and perverse like this? A. No. On the contrary, God created man good and in his image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so...
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Christian Discipleship Amid The Longevity Revolution (via Will Willimon)
Twenty years or more ago I talked with a Christian lady who mentioned that Psalm 90’s poetical expression ‘The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but...
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God Is With Us As We Go Into Life’s Last Age, Transforming Our Fate Into Our...
Will Willimon borrows from Shakespeare’s King Lear as a profound illustration of the wreckage of old age lived as a season where responsibility is relinquished but control remains tightly grasped. The...
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Learning To Affirm The Lives God Gives Us In The Face Of Regret That God...
If ageing is not to become an accrual of regrets about loss and unrealised ambitions, present life needs careful nurture about our attitudes to relationships and goals. From Will Willimon: I believe...
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Finding A Way To Live Life Well Without Denying Suffering And Death As...
It is counter-productive for disciples of Jesus to buy into our society’s capacity to alleviate physical or psychological suffering to the extent that we also accept its preoccupation with the concept...
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The Day The Church Visible Gathers With The Church Eternal And Looks Forward...
I’ve adopted a statement in my funerals for church members that they “have departed from the church visible and joined the church eternal”. Last Sunday some churches observe a day named All Saints Day,...
View ArticleWhat If Burnout Isn’t A Lack Of Resilience, But A Cultural Outcome?
I’m reading Can’t Even by Anne Helen Peterson, a social exploration subtitled How Millenials Became The Burnout Generation. The generalisation that an indulgent society raised a generation of...
View ArticleWestminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 16
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 16 Chapter 9 – Of Free Will I. God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature...
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Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 3 6. Q. Did God create man evil and perverse like this? A. No. On the contrary, God created man good and in his image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so...
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