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Written By: Mark on September 30, 2009 No Comment
God’s Will: Two Aspects

Have you ever wondered why God wants all men to be saved, and yet not all are?  Or why God’s will is that you abstain from sin, and yet we continue to sin?  Or why we pray for God’s will to be done, and it oftentimes seems that it isn’t?  Without wanting to try and [...]

Written By: Mark on September 28, 2009 2 Comments
Pilgrim’s Podcast #16: Richard Glover, Christ on Campus, Church in the Graveyard and Inspiring Stories from Cambodia!

Well, after a short hiatus of being snowed in by doctrine essays (I think I might even split the essay up into a few short blog spots – God, risk and middle knowledge being the topic), we’re back on the bandwagon for the Pilgrim’s Podcast! (and there’s plenty of interesting interviews coming up!)

This podcast is [...]

Written By: Mark on September 11, 2009 No Comment

This is cool.  Flippin’ awesome actually.  I love hearing of people – doesn’t matter who – coming to Christ!

This guy, MC Jin, is an american emcee (read: hiphop-rapper) who rose up quickly a few years ago as a battle rapper.  Since then, he’s been signed, released an album and recorded tracks [...]

Written By: Mark on September 7, 2009 2 Comments
Pilgrim’s Podcast #15: Dr. Ashley Null, Humility, Don’t Re-Invent a Broken Wheel, and Learning from our Elders

Well folks, this is the second installment of Steve and my fantastic interview with Dr. Ashley Null.  If you haven’t listened to the first part yet, then DO IT.  You know you want to.

In this interview we have the privilege of hearing Ashley’s wisdom on Christian humility.  What was an excellent section though, [...]

Written By: Mark on September 7, 2009 4 Comments
Carl Trueman on the Young, Restless and Reformed Movement

This is an excellent article.  Well balanced and very thoughtful… (a breath of fresh air rather than simply caricaturing individuals!)  Here’s a great paragraph:

“Finally, I worry that a movement built on megachurches, megaconferences, and megaleaders, does the church a disservice in one very important way that is often missed amid all [...]

Written By: Mark on September 5, 2009 No Comment

Mark Baddeley has posted up a great article on the Sola Panel about how our own Self-Knowledge can aid us in the Christian life (particularly here, ministry).  Go and check it out – the next installments look promising too!

Also, he’s posted up some more extended thoughts on his blog

Written By: Mark on September 4, 2009 2 Comments

Just a quick heads up for anyone who’s keen to come along:

The Prebyterian Theological College is hosting an Open Lecture by Paul Helm on the 15th September.
Moore Theological College is hosting a Calvin500 Conference on the 16th-17th September.

Paul Helm is Professor in History and Philosophy at Kings [...]

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Written By: Mark on September 4, 2009 No Comment
90’s Flowchart

Greek Exam in a few hours.  Thought I’d find the time to post this up.  Love it!

Written By: Mark on September 3, 2009 No Comment

Michael Jensen and David Hohne interview Andrew Cameron (Ethics @MTC) about his work: The Trials of Theology

Here!

Written By: Mark on September 1, 2009 No Comment

Mark Thompson has just posted up a bunch of short summaries of the papers given at the Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference.  Very interesting bunch of speakers: Henri Blocher, Mike Horton, Bruce McCormack, John Franke and Mark Thompson himself.  Here’s s little snippet from Mark’s summary of his paper:

“Perhaps the most controversial part of my paper was [...]

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