Mum used to tell us kids, “Work hard, and play hard, but never confuse the two.” By this she wanted us to know that while we were working, we should not fritter away the hours by squeezing in distractions and various kinds of play. The result would be poor work combined with guilt feelings for [...]

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It is rare for me to finish a sermon without feeling somewhere between slightly discouraged and moderately depressed that I have not preached with more unction, that I have not articulated these glorious truths more powerfully and with greater insight, and so forth. But I cannot allow that to drive me to despair; rather, it [...]

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Within protestant circles there is at the present time a widespread loss of conviction regarding the propriety and preceptive necessity of infant baptism. Even when the practice still persists, oftentimes there is little more than sentiment and tradition behind it. Such a situation is deplorable. Traditional sentiment can never be pleaded as the proper ground [...]

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The 35th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America was in Memphis last week. The Assembly discussed and approved the recommendations of the Study Committee on Federal Vision. The Study Committee had been formed at the 34th Assembly in Atlanta
to study the soteriology of the Federal Vision, New Perspective, and Auburn Avenue Theologies which [...]

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John Donne (1572-1631) wrote something that long-winded pastors everywhere should take to heart:
It needs not for perspicuousness, for God knows they are plain enough: nor do all of them use Sem-brief-Accents, for some of them have Crotchets enough. It may be they intend not to rise like glorious Tapers and Torches, but like Thin-wretched-sick-watching-Candles, which [...]

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