Pastoral Reflections on Bible Translations: Why We Preach From the English Standard Version

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Bruce Waltke’s long-awaited, 1000-page, magnum opus — An Old Testament Theology – has finally been published by Zondervan.
You can read the table of contents and chapter 1 online.
Publisher’s Description
The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It [...]

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Here’s further proof that our Universities are seedbeds for everything base.
Emerson University follows disturbing trend by making restrooms gender-neutral to accommodate “transgender” students

Jeff Robinson –September 5, 2007

Summary: To accommodate the Boston school’s “transgendered” student population, Emerson has changed the formerly gender-specific signs on 21 of its restrooms and in one of its two dorms, opening [...]

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Dr. Denny Burk has joined the CBMW team as the editor for the Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood starting with the Spring 2008 issue. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Criswell College in Dallas, Texas. He brings a scholar’s mind and a pastor’s heart to the task of [...]

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For those that might wonder what we believe, I have added a Statement of Faith page to the blog.
You can click here to read it.

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I read something today that really grieves my soul.
I read of a place called the Greensboro Abbey’s Online Community Space!
The following is in large part a cut-and-paste of what the Abbey is and what they believe and hope to be. Read it and pray if you will for blind eyes to be open. [...]

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Twelve-year-old Ashish never thought he would have a good education. He and his family live in Uttar Pradesh, northwest India. They are Dalits (”Untouchables”). Two years ago, Gospel for Asia started a Bridge of Hope center in Ashish’s village. Now that he is studying in school, Ashish’s whole outlook on life has changed. He is [...]

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What’s the Gospel?
I’ll put it in a sentence.
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
That’s the gospel.
Read the complete post: The Gospel in 6 [...]

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You can see my comments on Tchividjian’s blog. Share your own thoughts here or at Tchividjian’s blog or both.
The Bible makes it clear that God’s people face three enemies: the world, the flesh, and the Devil. This means that Rick Warren is NOT our enemy. For those of you who proudly bash Rick Warren, you [...]

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It is much to be desired, that our hearts might be so affected with a sense of divine things and so closely engaged when we are worshipping God, that it might not be in the power of little circumstances to interrupt and perplex us, and to make us think the service wearisome and the time [...]

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Pastor Ken Silva points us to Mark Driscoll’s recent speach at a souther baptist conference where he addressed issues with Emergent leaders Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, and Doug Pagitt.
Read the complete post from Pastor Ken here.
I have listened to Mark Driscoll’s address and I agree with him about McLaren, Bell, and Pagitt. However Driscoll suggest [...]

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From John Piper, in Let the Nations Be Glad!, 2nd ed: The Supremacy of God in Missions
Charles Wesley gives us an example of how one might obey Hebrews 13:13 and go “outside the camp” and bear the abuse he endured. On July 18, 1738, two months after his conversion, Charles Wesley did an [...]

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John Piper posts about his granddaughter, who was due to be born this week–and was delivered stillborn on Saturday night at 11:54 PM.
Our prayers through tears tonight are with Abraham and Molly, John and Noel, and their entire family.
Revelation 22:20-21.
(HT:Between Two Worlds)

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Ken Ham, one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America, will be in Ft.Worth, Texas, at Birchman Baptist Church on Monday, October 01, 2007.
For more information please click here or call (317) 337-9100.
NOTE: The information concerning this event was accurate as of the time this email was generated. However, Answers in Genesis cannot [...]

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From Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor:
“Take heed to yourselves lest you should be void of that saving grace of God which you offer to others, and be strangers to the effectual working of that gospel which you preach; and lest, while you proclaim the necessity of a Saviour to the world, your hearts should neglect [...]

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“The Christian man…finds in the Bible the very Word of God. Let it not be said that dependence on a book is a dead or an artificial thing. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was founded upon the authority of the Bible, yet it set the world aflame. Dependence upon a word of man [...]

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Ike and Carol are asking for our prayers. Ike tell us:
Carol has breast cancer. She had her colon removed a few years back and we thought the “cancer” word was over. We would appreciate your prayers, that through everything, we would bring God glory.
Please keep Ike and Carol in your prayers.
Please leave a word of [...]

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Tullian Tchividjian, Senior Pastor of New City Church recently posted on his blog a ‘Small List of Good Books’
‘that really helped me out as a young Christian’.
No doubt these books really did help Tchividjian in forming his new found faith in Christ. You can read the entire post here.
I do have a concern however, and it [...]

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The Journaling Bible™ is a unique format with wide margins and ruled lines designed for writing prayers, observations, sermon notes, and personal reflections. It also includes a one-year Bible reading plan.
-> Words of Christ in black
-> 7.5-point type
-> Wide margin with ruled writing space
-> Ribbon marker
-> Size: 6.25″ x 7.25″

Publisher
Crossway/Good News Publishers

Author:
ESV, [...]

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Mohler writes:
The 20th century witnessed an increasingly energetic revolt against doctrine. A denial of specific formulations of classical Christian doctrine has been evident in some quarters, while others have rejected the very notion of doctrine itself.
Doctrine has even fallen on hard times even among those who call themselves evangelicals. Some evangelical historians now argue that [...]

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Some Christians do not appreciate the value of doctrine. They do not understand why we need to learn so much about God. I fear that the reason for this is that we do not always explain the effects that doctrine can have on our lives. The Doctor was not so foolish. Indeed, he is one [...]

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John Piper, at Desiring God, has authored a small book called When the Darkness Will Not Lift.
In light of what we have been reading about Mother Teresa’s battle with ‘darkness’, Piper may have some insight we can draw from on this issue.
Here is a quote from John Piper:
Even the most faithful, focused Christians can [...]

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Albert Mohler shares some thoughts on the reading of books. Read the complete post here.
As Solomon warned, “Of making many books there is no end” [Ecclesiastes: 12:12]. There is no way to read everything, and not everything deserves to be read. I say that in order to confront the notion that anyone, anywhere, can master [...]

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September: Revival
If we surrender our hearts to God we may expect a wondrous enlargement. And who knows what He can do if we take our hands off and let Him work? — The Root of the Righteous, 130.

September 12 — Revival: Time Is Running Out
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore [...]

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There has been a fair amount of coverage related to the Time Magazine article ‘Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith’.
This article talks about a new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint [...]

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How to Mark and Honor This Day
This September 11 is the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Let us mark this day with thoughts about the 9/11 we know about, the one we never knew, and the one that will certainly happen to us.

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“The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man’s all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man. Slumber must forsake our eyelids sooner than men shall be allowed to perish. Yet we are all prone to sleep as do others, [...]

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We are asking everyone to keep the people of India in their prayers. From Christiantoday.com:
GUWAHATI, India - About 2.5 million people have been made homeless in India’s northeast state of Assam after a second wave of flooding caused by heavy rains over the past three days, an official said on Monday.
The flooding has affected about [...]

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Helping People Have the Assurance of Salvation — April 5, 1999 — John Piper (Online Source)

FULL ASSURANCE IS GOD’S WILL FOR US. “And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end.” Hebrews 6:11
ASSURANCE IS PARTIALLY SUSTAINED BY OBJECTIVE EVIDENCES FOR [...]

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poem
Whatever your cross,
whatever your pain,
there will always be sunshine,
after the rain ….
Perhaps you may stumble,
perhaps even fall,
But God’s always ready,
To answer your call …
He knows every heartache,
sees every tear,
A word from His lips,
can calm every fear …
Your sorrows may linger,
throughout the night,
But suddenly vanish,
in dawn’s early light …
The Savior is waiting,
somewhere above,
To give you His [...]

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From Answers In Genesis

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The Way of the Master–Book and CD
By Ray Comfort / Bridge-logos Publishing
The Way of the Master is the flagship work of Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron’s organization. It anchors their award-winning television program as well as their radio show and website. Considered by many to be the [...]

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Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Guangzhou) was a Scottish missionary, the first Christian Protestant missionary in China[1]. After twenty-five years of intense work he translated the whole Bible into the Chinese language and baptized ten Chinese believers.Morrison was buried in the Old Protestant [...]

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If you are a Christian, it is not a question of whether, but when.
John Piper is at Wheaton College this week doing a series of messages on “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer.” He began this morning, exhorting the students that “if you are making it your life ambition to avoid suffering, you will [...]

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Read John Piper’s article celebrating the 200th anniversary of Protestant missions in China.
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(HT: desiringGod)

Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed.: The Supremacy of God in Missions
By John Piper / Baker
Why do we do missions? We are told, by Jesus, to preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations. [...]

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I tell people that my faith is my life. It defines me. I see no separation between my faith from my personal and professional lives. Real faith should make us humble and mindful, not to the faults of others but of our own. It should not make us more judgmental, but rather less judgmental, as [...]

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September: Revival
If we surrender our hearts to God we may expect a wondrous enlargement. And who knows what He can do if we take our hands off and let Him work?
The Root of the Righteous, 130.

September 6
Revival: Revival on Our Terms
I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give [...]

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From Christian Today:

Story Excerpt
Minda is a masseuse with a difference. Her caress is used to abort foetuses.
The 50-year-old grandmother has lost count of the number of pregnancies she has terminated in this largely Roman Catholic country where abortion is illegal and strictly taboo, but where about half a million women end their pregnancies every year.
The [...]

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