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i wasn’t speaking to whether of the events reported in Keener’s book are true or not. Just that the reports aren’t binding to be believed (or not believed) on a Christian far removed from the...

I have a take on these things. It is that the Lord is free to do whatsoever he has predestined to do in these post-apostolic days by way of extraordinary healing or providence, but we’re not...

Ed, I think the most we could say from scripture is that embalming included methods of a temporary preserving of a body. Certainly the methods in biblical times looked different than today’s...

I fully acknowledge that God can and may heal in response to prayer and indeed independently and sovereignly in the absence of prayer. If I was not clear on that then I apologise. I will pray...

A vivid dream I had a vivid dream in which I recognised Denis Prager in a hotel lobby in Lennoxtown and then again upstairs in a public room where he was part of a panel about to speak to about...

One of the injustices inflicted on my family was that the family bible with the genealogical charts at the front went to a cousin in Cumbernauld. This was the WRONG cousin and an affront to the...

And although the text in 1 John v. 7, has been disputed, on plausible grounds, and the testimony of existing manuscripts is unfavourable to its authenticity, yet there being positive evidence that...

Say what you will, it must needs be an Excellent thing wherewith Christ Jesus Himself was Filled, and that was with The Spirit of this Fear, Esai. 11.2. An excellent thing which God Himself so...

Jacob and Joseph were embalmed... And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are...

We just published an excellent resource for those appreciative of the Puritans, Ore from the Puritan's Mine. This is an excellent devotional resource. Pastors will also find it very useful when...

I am happy to announce that Robert Rollock's commentary on Ephesians is now in print! Theodore Beza once praised this commentary by saying the following, “I pray you, taken it to be spoken...

That's actually not helping to sell the idea of this office to me.:nowork:

I would find bigger issues with a muti-site church than whether the local point of contact was an assistant or an associate. How can the members even pretend to make an informed decision when...

If a significant minority of the congregation start pushing back, I'm confident that the session would end up acting. And if the ones complaining are the ones footing the bill, I expect they...

Here's another wrinkle. We had a situation in a PCA presbytery where a multi-site church wanted to ordain all of the churchplanters as assistant pastors and have the executive pastor be the only...

I'll end my rabbit trail but it sure seems to be a problematic hybrid church office to me if the man is ordained and ministering to the church he's serving (the congregants consent being of divine...

Here's another wrinkle. We had a situation in a PCA presbytery where a multi-site church wanted to ordain all of the churchplanters as assistant pastors and have the executive pastor be the only...

Hugh Binning, Works, p. 253: You are the sons of God. That is truly the greatest dignity and highest privilege, in respect of which, all relations may blush and hide their faces. What are all...

The argument that Van Til must be grounded in exegesis because he is grounded in the reformed tradition, which is grounded in exegesis, really only stands where Van Til is not idiosyncratic. But...

The argument that Van Til must be grounded in exegesis because he is grounded in the reformed tradition, which is grounded in exegesis, really only stands where Van Til is not idiosyncratic. But...