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BOOK REVIEW: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
NOTE: This will be the last blog until May. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss one. The liberalism of Machen’s time -- the early...
Pastor Jared
Mar 284 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness: A Summary
We’ve covered a fair bit of territory in our four previous blogs covering forgiveness. Crucially, we have seen that forgiveness is really...
Pastor Jared
Mar 215 min read
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GUEST BLOGGER: A Successful Marriage? Part 1: Denials
NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at...
Pastor Jared
Mar 144 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 4: How many times must I forgive???
"Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said...
Pastor Jared
Mar 73 min read
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It's Been A Long Road
When we started working our way through Ephesians, I mentioned that it will take us until July after which we will break for the month of...
Pastor Jared
Feb 282 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 3: A high stakes game
Following the Lord’s Prayer in which Jesus tells us that as part of our prayer life we need to seek the forgiveness of God for our debts...
Pastor Jared
Feb 214 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Ten Myths of Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition
This is book number three on the topic of Calvinism which we have reviewed in this space (and on the Here I Sit Podcast ). It is written...
Pastor Jared
Feb 143 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness Part 2: Definitions
We ended our last blog with this statement… God has been, is, and always will be a forgiving God. He offers us forgiveness for sin full...
Pastor Jared
Feb 74 min read
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GUEST BLOGGER: Laying Foundations
NOTE: I have invited the contributions of Stu Reimer to write in this space on the issues of marriage and family. If you follow CRC at...
Pastor Jared
Jan 313 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Killing Calvinism: How to Destroy a Perfectly Good Theology From the Inside by Greg Dutcher
You’ve probably all heard the phrase - ‘Cage-stage Calvinist.’ It’s not a complementary term as it refers to someone who has figured out...
Pastor Jared
Jan 244 min read
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Biblical Forgiveness, Part 1
We live in a world that doesn’t work the way it should. We all know that. One of the very real results of living in a fallen world is...
Pastor Jared
Jan 173 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: The Joy of Calvinism: Knowing God’s Personal, Unconditional, Irresistible, Unbreakable Love by Greg Forster
I’ve been a reformed theologian, or Calvinist, for almost 30 years. During those years, I have taught at several institutions, pastored...
Pastor Jared
Jan 104 min read
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A Christmas Reminder
NOTE: This will be the last blog until the New Year. Make sure to subscribe to receive all the blogs in your inbox and look for the next...
Pastor Jared
Nov 29, 20243 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Redemption: Accomplished and Applied by John Murray
Other than the Bible, this book is the one I hold dearest to my heart. I first read it in the summer of 1998 between the first and second...
Pastor Jared
Nov 22, 20244 min read
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Christ the King
A number of years ago I was part of a panel discussion at Providence College entitled "Christ the King." The panel included pastors from...
Pastor Jared
Nov 15, 20243 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl Trueman
The church has a problem of its own making. In many instances it has become mere Christianity. It presents itself as something different...
Pastor Jared
Nov 8, 20244 min read
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Developing a Worshipful Life
"[W]orship is the proper response of all moral beings to God, ascribing all honour and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is...
Pastor Jared
Nov 1, 20244 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible by John Meade and Peter Gurry
I think every Christian has come across a few things in their English Bible’s that have caused them to pause and wonder what is going on....
Pastor Jared
Oct 25, 20244 min read
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What to do about John 7:53-8:11?: An example of textual criticism
In our Adult Sunday School class we have been talking about how we got our Bible in the form that we do. In technical terms we are...
Pastor Jared
Oct 18, 20245 min read
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Biblical Thankfulness
Canadian thanksgiving is this weekend. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to take a brief look at what it means to be...
Pastor Jared
Oct 11, 20243 min read
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