Friday, April 25, 2025

The Vision (4.25.25): Resurrection Appearances (Luke 24)

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  Image: Azaleas, North Garden, Virginia, April 2025. Note: Devotion taken from morning and afternoon sermons last Sunday on Luke 24. “And t...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Old English Riddle: Holy Book

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  From Burton Raffel, Poems from the Old English (University of Nebraska Press, 1964), a riddle on a Biblical or sacred writing manuscript:...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Duffy on "creeping to the cross"

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Historian Eamon Duffy describes the late Medieval Good Friday tradition of “creeping to the cross” in English churches and how the Protestan...

The Vision (4.18.25): Stewards of the Mysteries of God

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  Image: Laying on of hands and prayer during Elder ordination at CRBC (4.13.25) Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on 1 Co...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Audio and Video Resources: 2025 Presbyterion (Reformed Baptist Fellowship of Virginia Spring Pastors' Fraternal)

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  Session 1 ( X post version ): On The Civil Magistrate: Session 2 ( X post version ): The Case for Christian Nationalism: A 1689 Reaction:...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) Hymn: Father of Mercies, Bow Thine Ear

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Note: From X post: Make old hymns great again! We enjoyed singing this hymn by Particular Baptist Pastor Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) in our...
Friday, April 11, 2025

The Vision (4.11.25): Created in Christ Jesus Unto Good Works

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  Image: Climbers ascending Mount Everest. Note: Devotion based on last Sunday's sermon on Ephesians 2:8-10. For we are his workmanship...
Friday, April 04, 2025

The Vision (4.4.25): The Problem with the Life-Preserver Analogy

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  Note: Vision devotional article taken from last Sunday's sermon on Ephesians 2:1-7. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespa...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

WM 326: Confessional Subscription & the Septuagint

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  Read the article reviewed here. JTR
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

The Vision (3.28.25): The Gospel of Your Salvation

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  Image: Ruins of ancient Ephesus, Turkey. Note: Devotion taken from Sunday AM sermon on March 23, 2025 . In whom ye also trusted, after tha...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Preview Video: 2025 Reformation Bible Society Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday, August 2, 2025

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Theology in Particular: The Administration and Administrator of Baptism

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Monday, March 24, 2025

The Vision (3.21.25): Ephesus: Yet Here God Has His Church

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  Image: The Library of Celsus, ruins of ancient Ephesus, Turkey. Note: Devotion based on sermon on Ephesians 1:7-12 . The Puritan minister ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

"Makebate"

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Note: From X post: Prepping to teach midweek Bible study yesterday on the 18 items in Paul's vice list in 2 Timothy 3:2-4, which, he say...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

WM 325: Review of Seven Significant & Curious Problems with Mark Ward's "Scholarly" Article on Psalm 12:6-7

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Here are notes from my review of MW's "scholarly" article : First: The article, beginning with its title, attacks a straw man...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Vision (3.14.25): Introductory Thoughts on Ephesians

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  Note: We began a new Sunday morning exposition last Lord’s Day at CRBC through the book of Ephesians. Listen to sermon here . Paul, an a...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Thomas Watson on the Preservation of Scripture

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  Note: Another X post: A pastor in California recently sent me this quotation from Thomas Watson's commentary on the Shorter Catechism,...

Response to a Pastor's Recent Question on Erasmus and the Confessional Text

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Note: Post taken from twitter/X: A pastor messaged me this week on X who has been working through issues related to text and translation of ...
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Saturday, March 08, 2025

The Vision (3.7.25): Put away the strange gods

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  Image: "The Theraphim of the Hebrews," from Oedipus Aegypticus, Athanasius Kircher, 1652-1654. Note: Devotion based on last Sund...
Monday, March 03, 2025

WM 324: W. H. Auden: Stick to Cranmer and King James

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