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• More on Fencing the Table: Dutch Reformed Voices

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  I’ve been thinking more lately about the scandal of fencing the table.I should have thought to do this earlier. Researching an answer to another question I ran across some interesting Dutch Reformed (in this case, Christian Reformed) sources on this question. John Kromminga, The Christian Reformed Church (1949), ...
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• Christians Should Come Out of the Closet: I.e., They Should Go to Church!

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 126
  Jason Stellman, in noting that most evangelicals prefer all things private and inner to most things public and organized, comments on the ideal-piety that is proposed in most churches: Deep within the hidden recesses of each one of us lives a gnostic waiting for an excuse to come out and reveal himself.  Just as ...
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• Thomas Murphy on The Minister’s Love for Christ

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 126
  Thomas Murphy speaks about the only motive that will enable a minister to faithfully and steadily serve in his office through thick and thin: All other motives than the constraining love of Christ in the heart soon lose their influence.  There are no doubt other incentives, such as ambition, love of learning and ...
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• The Death of Santa

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Originally published on the HB 22 Dec 2008.As a young boy I certainly believed in Santa. We made the annual cookie oblation and went to bed under the conditional covenant that he would not come if we did not sleep (or at least stay in bed). Nevertheless, I think I began to doubt the faith earlier [...]
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• I Object: Terminology

  
  Songs From The Wood — Authority: 114
  Wicca-derived modern neopagan slang terms like “newbie” and “getting thwapped” have absolutely no place in even moderately reconstructionist pagan religions. “Newbie” is a term implying resentment towards beginners. It’s appropriate in something like online gaming, where beginners can be annoying and in ...
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• O Come, Let Us Adore Him–If We Can Stand It

  
  Prof. John Stackhouse's Weblog — Authority: 106
  I love the sights of Christmas. My beloved spends considerable time and skill “Christmasing” our home and there is something beautiful to look at almost everywhere. Sculptures of choristers or crèches in each nook; glittering ornaments catching the light in every direction; model villages evoking the longing for ...
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• On P&R Churches and “Holy Days”

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Andy Webb has a very helpful post on this topic.Darryl Hart asks when Presbyterians became Adventists? With the help of Leigh Eric Schmidt makes some very interesting and important points about the way commercial interests coincided with the interests of revivalist evangelicalism.Then, of course, there is the problem ...
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• Heidelcast Episode 12: The Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 4)

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Heidelcast 12-The Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 4)We like the idea of special, individualized messages from God about our particular circumstance or question. We don’t much like the idea of struggling in prayer and thought over what is the wisest course but as important as the Reformed doctrine of illumination ...
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• A Tale of Two Affirmations

  
  The Confessional Outhouse — Authority: 417
  From about that time, I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and ideas of Christ. and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation by him. An inward, sweet sense of these things, at times, came into my heart; and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them. And my mind was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heidelcast Episode 11: The Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 3)

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Heidelcast 11-The Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 3)Modern evangelicals often assume that the line between post-canonical and canonical life is blurry or non-existent. It is widely assumed that we are in the exact same place in history as the prophets and apostles and that we can, if we have enough faith, replicate ...
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• The Comfort of Prayer

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Jon Moersch has an excellent post on the necessity and benefits of prayer.Posted in Piety and Practice, Reformed Piety Tagged: gratitude, prayer, Reformed Piety, Reforming piety, sanctification
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• Let Him Who Lacks Wisdom…

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Listen to the WSC morning devotions from this fall. They’re on the web and they’re free. You may subscribe at the WSC website or on iTunes. This series includes messages by Bob Godfrey, Mike Horton, John Fesko, Steve Baugh, Bryan Estelle, and many others. Recently Lloyd Kim, a WSC alumnus (and guest on an upcoming ...
  3 weeks ago

• Heidelcast Episode 10-The Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 2)

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 559
  Heidelcast 10-Secret of Knowing God’s Will (pt 2)Posted in heidelcast, knowing Gods will, Reformed Piety Tagged: discernment, guidance, Heidelcast episode 10, the secret of knowing Gods Will, wisdom
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• Eid Al Adha: Duty and sacrifice

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  ..Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said that every part of the sacrificial animal attracts rewards for the Muslim who sacrifices it for the sake of Allah. Sacrificial animals are only symbolic, and scholars say what is most important for Muslims is the fear of Allah with which they slaughter the animals. The Quran says: "It is ...
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• Abraham Lincolns Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 425
  The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to ...
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• Lacking Celestial Motivation and a Thought Experiment

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 418
  When we talk about the ideal world…the world that perhaps may only be realized in heaven…many of us take for granted that our ideal is the same as another’s ideal. Or, at the very least, when ideals differ, we might say it is because one or both parties see through a glass darkly. Many times, people assume ...
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• Smokers’ Corner: Beards: a trim history

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 434
  By Nadeem F. ParachaSunday, 04 Oct, 2009 (Courtesy Dawn)—Illustration by Abro  In his biography, Mirror to the Blind, Abdul Sattar Edhi complains how he detests being called a ‘maulana’.‘Mine was never a religious beard,’ he says. ‘It was always a revolutionary beard,’ he explains – perhaps inspired ...
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• BJP is not against minorities, says Advani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani Sunday said his party was not anti-minorities and that he deeply valued Christrians’ contribution to freedom struggle and nation building.“I revere Jesus Christ for his message of universal peace, love and brotherhood. I deeply value ...
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