Wednesday, August 27, 2008

How to Do the Job You Don't Really Want to Do

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"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might" (Ecclesiastes 9:10a). "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatev...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Conversation Continues: Solomon or Jedidiah?

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This is an ongoing series featuring responses to questions that were submitted for our summer 2008 Church Family fellowship discussion that ...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

John Howe's Worship Practice

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Pastor Kyle from Good Hope shared with me about the worship practice of the Puritan John Howe (1630-1705): When the Puritans held fast days...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

12 Searching Questions

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It used to be a custom in churches for Pastors to compile lists of questions for the congregation to use in spiritual examination (2 Corint...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The Conversation Continues: Is Anger a Sin?

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This is an ongoing series featuring responses to questions we did not have time to get to in our summer Church Family Fellowship series: Que...
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Packer on Temptation

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I ran across this definition of "temptation" in J. I. Packer's A Passion for Holiness (Crossway, 1992): "Temptations ar...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Homecoming and Revival at Good Hope

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Yesterday I preached in the Lord's Day morning service at Good Hope Baptist Church in Radiant, Virginia (Madison County). It was their a...
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Sermon of the Week: Evaluating "Exclusive Psalmnody"

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If you happened to listen to the final message from Malcolm Watts in the last "Sermon of the Week," you heard a spirited defense ...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Conversation Continues: Is Baptism Required for Salvation?

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Last Sunday evening (8/10/08) at our final 2008 Church Family Fellowship of the summer, there were several questions submitted that we did n...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A Ransom for Many

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Last Sunday's (8/10/08) message was drawn from Mark 10:45: "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to...

Judges Series Sermon Texts Online

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Back in 2006-07 I did a sermon series from the book of Judges. JPBC webmaster Brian D. has begun posting some of the written texts for thos...

Regarding the AV rendering of Hebrews 2:17

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I. Introduction: Chip C. was asking me about the AV rendering of Hebrews 2:17. Namely, why does the AV use the word "reconciliation...
Monday, August 11, 2008

The Spurgeon Suite

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Mike S. sent me this link to the "Honeymoon Mansion" in New Albany, Indiana (near Louisville) where guests may choose to stay in ...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Byron Glaspy Fan Club

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The Daily Progress has a nice article this morning on JPBC's Byron Glaspy: "UVA's Glaspy takes ownership of safety position....
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Sermon of the Week: Malcolm Watts on Ecclesiology and Worship

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Malcom Watts is Pastor of Emmanuel Church in Salisbury, England. He also serves as Chairman of the Trinitarian Bible Society and the Bible ...

New Reviews and Articles Online

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JPBC webmaster Brian Davis has posted some more writings on the church website , including my book reviews on Maurice Robinson, ed's Th...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Habitual Repentance

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I recently listened to an online sermon in which a pastor told of a time when he called on his congregation to repent of some ungodly decisi...
Monday, August 04, 2008

A Layman's Meditations

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JPBC's Steve Belcher has entered the blogosphere. He started his blog, "A Layman's Meditations" while I was away in China...

Mary Beeke: The Law of Kindness

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Our interns are reading their final book of the summer (which they have taken to calling their "summer semester"). It is Mary Bee...

The Indefatigable Industry of John Calvin

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Charles Bridges in The Christian Ministry (Banner of Truth, 2006 [1830]) in a section on "habits of general study" praises the in...