I received the 9Marks 2007 Report Card in an email today. My attention was immediately drawn to a quote from Mark Dever.

Consider how spot-on Mark is with his words in this quote.
I want you to try a thought exercise. Suppose a business school class on non-profit organizations assigns its students the task of building [...]

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From Benjamin B. Warfield: Selected Shorter Writings, 2 Volumes

I believe that my one aim in life and death should be to glorify God and enjoy Him forever; and that God teaches me how to glorify and enjoy him in His holy Word, that is, the Bible, which He has given by the infallible inspiration [...]

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Crossway has just published a new, attractive, TruTone version of Spurgeon’s classics, Morning by Morning and Evening by Evening.

Morning by Morning is considered a devotional classic for its faithful handling of Scripture and passionate interaction with God’s Word. In this stand-alone edition, noted pastor-author Alistair Begg has carefully modernized Charles Spurgeon’s language while preserving [...]

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I just received The Parables of Jesus: Entering, Growing, Living & Finishing in God’s Kingdom and I am looking forward to reading this book and posting my review.
Just a cursory viewing of the contents has me eager to dive in and consume the teaching Pastor Terry Johnson has to share.
No doubt, this book will [...]

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See Table of Contents and Chapters 1-3 at Crossway

Love Your Neighbor

By Norman L. Geisler & Ryan P. Snuffer / Good News & Crossway
Love Your Neighbor is a concise introduction to Christian ethics. It begins with a look at the biblical basis for morality, defines and describes various philosophical approaches to the subject of ethics, then [...]

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Two Lectures on Monergistic Regeneration (MP3s)
Last week we held our Reformation Society of Oregon meeting and Dr. Art Azurdia III gave two expositions/lectures on the subject monergistic regeneration. We have posted the MP3s for free download. IMHO, they are superb biblical exegesis and I highly recommend them for your personal edification.
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For the month of February Sovereign Grace will be selling all CDs for six dollars. With free shipping. Pursuit of Godliness books will be $5. Free shipping is a US-only deal. Canadians and others lodge your protest here!

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By Bob Kauflin (Original Source)
Yesterday I led a couple songs during the funeral of Mark Walker, a dear friend from a church I used to be a pastor at years ago. It was one of the most joyful memorial services I’ve been to, due largely to the glowing countenance of Marks’ widow, Marie. Everyone who [...]

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Hillary Clinton before Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007 (Transcribed by Laura Echevarria)
Hillary Clinton:
How do I thank Cecile Richards for being the president of this great organization and committing herself to not only continuing and protecting the work that Planned Parenthood has done for so many years,but bringing these issues into the political [...]

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If that who is Hillary Clinton, and you claim to be a Christian, consider this excerpt from her speech at Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007.
How do I thank Cecile Richards for being the president of this great organization and committing herself to not only continuing and protecting the work that Planned Parenthood has [...]

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America has become the most permissive of all democratic societies in the modern world when it comes to abortion!
John Piper, in his book, Hunger for God, has a chapter entitled, Fasting for the Little Ones, that’s so timely given the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
An excerpt:
But I wonder if many of the young [...]

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Dr. David Calhoun, Professor of Church History, Covenant Theological Seminary, speaks from personal experience on sickness and suffering.
Dr. Calhoun, a cancer survivor of over 20 years, shares a biblical perspective on sickness and suffering.
In 1987, Dr. Calhoun was diagnosed with Mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that historically has been resistant to current standard [...]

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By D. A. Carson
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc.
Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpretation; biblical hermeneutics is the art and science of interpreting the Bible. At the time of the Reformation, debates over interpretation played an enormously important role. These were debates over interpretation, not just over interpretations. In other words, the Reformers disagreed [...]

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Where in today’s church do you hear the doctrine of ‘The Fear of God‘ preached or lived out by its members. To be sure, there are pastors who still preach this doctrine and there are no doubt, church members who understand and live in ‘The Fear of God’.
It is no streach however to suggest that [...]

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January 22, 2008 marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that dramatically changed our nation.
In spite of its impact, true understanding of Roe and what it accomplished remains relatively vague in the public consciousness.

[...]

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Is the Shorter Catechism Worth While? by Benjamin B. Warfield
The Shorter Catechism is, perhaps, not very easy to learn. And very certainly it will not teach itself. Its framers were less careful to make it easy than to make it good. As one of them, Lazarus Seaman, explained, they sought to set down in [...]

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Martin Luther: In His Own Words (Audio CD)

Binding: CDs
Running Time: 2 Hrs. 45 Min.
Publisher: Hovel AudioAvailability: Usually ships the same business day.

Description: Most all Christians know the name Martin Luther. Less familiar, however, are his words. This compilation of many of Luther’s most important writings serves [...]

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Purchase excellent resources from the Answers in Genesis Bookstore

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2008 SOLUS CHRISTUS
In Christ Alone! There is no more important word in the English language than that little word alone! Do you understand why? If you’re a Christian, you must! Does God accept you because of Christ? Or because of Christ alone? This is not the petty parsing of words. On one side is the [...]

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Come Weary Saints is the latest album scheduled to be released by Sovereign Grace Music.

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Dr. Daniel Akin, president of Southestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recently edited a most helpful title, A Theology for the Church.

A Theology for the Church
By Edited by Daniel L. Akin / B & H Publishing Group
What does Scripture say? What has the church believed? How do various doctrines fit together? What impact do they have [...]

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Dr. Daniel Akin, president of Southestern Baptist Theological Seminary, provides the following article for SBC Life (April 2006) discussing how Southern Baptists should respond to the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibilty.
Although this article is addressed to ‘Southern Baptists’ I find it relevant for all Christian denominations.
Dr. Akin concludes the article with an excerpt [...]

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A prominent theologian expressed concerns this week about the recent Christian response to a historic Muslim letter in which signers appeared unclear about their Christian identity and different beliefs of God.
The letter, titled “Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to a Common Word Between Us and You,” failed to clearly define the Christian [...]

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Sam Storms (Enjoying God Ministries), noted expert on Jonathan Edwards, brings us the following messages.
Storms presented five messages on Jonathan Edwards at Grace Church, Chapel Hill, NC.

Jonathan Edwards #1
Jonathan Edwards #2
Jonathan Edwards #3
Jonathan Edwards #4
Jonathan Edwards #5

You may want to consider Sam Storms wonderfull book Signs of the Spirit: An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards’ “Religious [...]

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Question
What is Presuppositional Apologetics? Are there any other apologetic methods?
Answer
Apologetics is a field of study concerned with the defense of Christianity. The term “apologetic” comes from the Greek word apologia, which means “in defense of.” Therefore a person involved in Christian or Bible Apologetics is a defender of Christianity.
There are different apologetic methods. Among the [...]

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The following are comments from AG pastors regarding the Emergent Church. These comments are in response to an article by Earl Creps, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Renewal, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
Here is a link to the original post from Creps.
Earl, I believe the answer to your question is NO. I have been involved [...]

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An Assembly of God youth pastor attributes most of his theological inspiration to have come from Emergent writers.
as an AG YP, I have found most of my theological inspiration, and quite frankly, hope that things can change for the better, from writers who could be categorized as emergent. Honestly, I am saddened but not [...]

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Jerry Bridges brings us a new book Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate.
Have Christians become so preoccupied with the major sins of our society that we have lost sight of our need to deal with our own more subtle sins? Jerry Bridges returns to his trademark theme of holiness and addresses a dozen clusters [...]

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In his commentary on Ephesian, R. Kent Hughes shares this on the elect.
… the telltale evidence (not the cause) of one’s election is holiness. Harold Ockenga, pastor of Park Street Church and founding president of Fuller Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Seminary, put it in no uncertain terms:
If God has elected us He has not elected us [...]

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By Abraham Piper
My son Abraham, who speaks from the wisdom of experience and Scripture, has written the article that follows. I read it with tears and laughter. It is so compelling that I asked him immediately if I could share it with the church and the wider Christian community. There is no greater joy than [...]

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Dr. Robert Peterson, Professor of Systematic, Covenant Theological Seminary, provides a most helpful article on Assurance that you will want to read.
The following is an abstract of the article

Moving From Uncertainty Toward Assurance — How God Assures His Adopted Children
God not only rescues His people from their sins; He also grants them assurance of salvation. [...]

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Christians must stand on clear definition of God in dialogue with Muslims, Mohler says
January 10, 2008
By Garrett E. Wishall (Original Source)
Christians must stand on clear definition of God in When Christians enter into conversation with Muslims, their conversation should be clearly and distinctly Christian, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Tuesday on his national radio program.
Mohler, [...]

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In The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness, Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington ask and answer this question:
“What is sin? It is often described as ‘missing the mark’—that is, failure to live up to the rigorous standard of God’s holy law. But the Bible makes it clear that it is much more than [...]

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Carson recently spoke @ the Castle in Ireland looking at the Gospel message, it’s most important components, and how it’s been distorted and corrupted today by many sectors of the church.
What is the Gospel (1Cor 15:1-19) Duration 1:09:29
Question and Answer Session Duration 00:21:02

1Cor 15:1-19
The Resurrection of Christ
15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the [...]

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Pastor Richard Phillips’ exposition of the book of John
Welcome to the expository preaching of Pastor Phillips. Here you will find Pastor Phillips’ sermons arranged by the books of the Bible in alphabetical order.Pastor Phillips’ sermons are available in MP3 and PDF format.
Note: To save the sermon to your computer, right-click the download link and [...]

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Taken from the book The Reformed Pastor by the puritan preacher Richard Baxter.
One of our most heinous and palpable sins is PRIDE. This is a sin that hath too much interest in the best of us, but which is more hateful and inexcusable in us than in other men. Yet is it so prevalent in [...]

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Blogger Timmy Brister has issued a challenge to Christians to read through some of the most important writings of the Puritans, reading one book a month through 2008. Here is his suggested list, with links to each book at Westminster Bookstore, where you can get them all for at least 30% off list price:
January: The [...]

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In my reading of scripture the other day, I was taken to Habakkuk 3 and v. 17-19 brought me to a time of reflection upon who God is and how worthy (in all circumstances) He is of my praise and adoration.
May we remember during 2008 to rejoice in the Lord and again rejoice for He [...]

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By most measures the significance of J. Gresham Machen is minor. Few outside the world of conservative Presbyterianism know about the man once recognized as the most articulate and intelligent proponent of historic Protestantism in the United States. Indeed, most assessments of Machen highlight his historical importance, a sure sign of fading significance. As early [...]

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The doctrine of the clarity (or perspicuity) of Scripture (i.e., that the central message of the Bible is clear and understandable, and that the Bible itself can be properly interpreted in a normal, literal sense) has been a cornerstone of evangelical belief since the Reformation. The dominant Roman Catholic idea had been that the Bible [...]

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I found the following quote from Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution insightful and thought provoking. The quote is a commentary on Psalm 119:25-32.

Psalm 119:25-32
25 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!
26 When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!
27 [...]

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Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, recently gave an exclusive interview to Catholic Online where he was asked to address several issues important to Catholic voters.
Following this interview with Mike Huckabee there was an intimation of anti-Catholicism by several pundits and commentators.
Here are some details from a second interview with Mike Huckabee addressing some concerns of Catholic [...]

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