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Puritan Reformed Seminary is in good hands
Ten years ago, I promised the Puritan Reformed Seminary Board of Trustees that I would, God willing and health permitting, be willing to serve as president of Puritan Reformed until the age of seventy. Having reached that age last year, the Board has decided to present to the Heritage Reformed...
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Beeke’s Book of the Month for August 2023— Parenting by God’s Promises
Beeke’s Book of the Month for August 2023 is Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace by Dr. Joel Beeke. Enjoy Dr. Beeke’s inspiring introduction to learn how the Covenant of Grace gives hope to Christian parents. My dad claimed he would never earn...
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Dying Delightfully
Our lives are not just a journey to death. They are a journey to one of two eternal places: heaven or hell. In heaven all evil is walled out and all good is walled in. Heaven is an eternal day that knows no sunset. Hell is an eternal night that...
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Dying Demystified
There is a remarkable difference between how an unbeliever and a believer look at dying, death, and the afterlife. For the unbeliever or the agnostic, death is mysterious and the afterlife is even more dubious. For the believer, death is not an extinction or a terminus but only a transition,...
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The Basic Definition of Accommodation in Evangelism
In defining accommodation, we want to consider three significant matters: first, its basic meaning; second, its reflection of God’s character; and third, how it can be applied in our experience. First, the basic meaning of accommodation is difficult both to perceive and practice, for (1) our natural inclination is to...
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How to contextualize and accommodate in evangelism
The Bible itself turns out to be the best guidebook on how to contextualize and accommodate in evangelism. Here are a few points we can draw from this: Jesus is Paul’s pattern for a kind of freedom that becomes the servant of all in order to save. In this mindset,...
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Christ came to bring light
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. — JOHN 12:46 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. — JOHN 15:22 Bright light is...
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Christ came to save sinners
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. — 1 TIMOTHY 1:15 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the...
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Christ came to do the will of The Father
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. — JOHN 6:38 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. — HEBREWS 10:7; CF....
