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An unworthy sinner saved by grace and given the privilege of serving the Most Worthy King

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"If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead." - Luke 16:31

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"Make the claim of liberty of conscience on the part of individuals to be a claim not dependent on their duty and responsibility to God, but on their rights as citizens or members of the political community, and you incalculably weaken the strength of it." Bannerman

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This new devotional aimed at seminary students, professors, and pastors releases next week, 3 September. Retweet to win ONE of FIVE giveaway copies. Winners announced next Wednesday.

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"If anyone is not willing to exegete, let him neither preach nor teach." - Richard B. Gaffin Jr.

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-- by Dr. Robert J. Cara

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The Word of God is both propositional content and the active/dynamic speaking by the Triune God. Because it includes propositional content, someone’s misrepresentation of it would not have divine authority. Divine authority is derivative of the accuracy with which it is preached.

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Updated Link: https://t.co/3jHqMaJavG

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The "More Calvinistic Than Calvin" authors ask an important question: why are so many young people attracted to CERC (p. 97)? Their answer is that ‘CERC is making a real attempt to teach the Bible to the young people... - Dr Peterson https://t.co/iS1JFxAX0s

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“Zeal without doctrine is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic.” John Calvin

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"But although the world may rage, by no means must the truth be joined to lies and idolatries nor must it be neglected, against which we can do nothing (2 Cor 13:8)" - Daniel Tossanus

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"Liberalism is not another form of Christianity; it is not Christianity" https://t.co/wUN910bddV

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"Christianity stands, to be sure, in antithetical relations to the religions of the world, but it also seeks to fulfill the faint desire manifest in those religions.”
-Dan Strange, Live from the Future of Reformed Apologetics Conference.

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- Introductory Essay to John Owen’s Death of Death in the Death of Christ by J. I. Packer

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FYI J.I. Packer on Calvinism: "Calvinism is the natural theology written on the heart of the new man in Christ, whereas Arminianism is an intellectual sin of infirmity, natural only in the sense in which all such sins are natural, even to the regenerate."

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Part 5: ‘Calvinism’ is one of the ‘odious names’ by which down the centuries prejudice has been raised against it. But the thing itself is just the biblical gospel.”

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Lloyd-Jones on sermon length: "This is a most serious question. In those other realms, people do not object to the length (of TV programmes, football games) because they enjoy it, they like it, and they want more of it. Why then is it not the same with the Christian and sermons?"

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"Evangelism which is not theological is not evangelism at all in any true sense." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones