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- Let’s try that again…
- Proclaim Freedom
- A humbling and enlightening exercise
- 14. Free Will
- 29. Covenant and Election
- 28. Election
- 13. Original sin (2)
- 12. Original Sin (1)
- 27. Covenant theology (4)
- The date and interpretation of Judges 17-21
- Don Carson on the church in Britain
- What is the government for?
- A portrait of a sluggard
- A chiasm in Proverbs 12:16-23
- Psalms
- John Owen Centre Conference, September 2012
- Biblical lies
- Hard graft
- The key to the covenants
- Mark Driscoll to young Christian men
- Mark Driscoll on studying
- Bible in a year
- Prayer again
- Prayer in a nutshell
- Not just preaching it
- Wives saving their husbands
- Renouncing self-gratification
- Jesus and Kim Jong-un
- God the Son became God our brother
- Ripping apart the old covenant
- Uncertainty is worst of all
- A sign of worldliness
- If I were a swan
- 11. The creation of man
- 26. Covenant theology (3)
- John Frame on Greg Bahnsen
- Every Christian is a theonomist
- (Not) abolishing the Law
- Puritan light and Quaker heat
- A chiasm in Luke 5:28-32
- Crushing heads
- Bowing in the Temple of Rimmon
- Illegal abortions
- 25. Covenant theology (2)
- 10. The Trinity (2)
- Dithering isn’t going to help
- A trinitarian challenge
- Agree with each other
- Advent Calendar
- Bible for a quid
- Only after death
- 24. Covenant theology (1)
- 9. The Trinity (1)
- God’s words are free
- Unclean! Unclean!
- The good or the best?
- Not a God far away
- Contagious holiness
- Van Til meets Leithart
- Not Ashamed 2011
- Someone’s coming…
- Insistently demanding
- Those passionate Puritans
- Philippians 4:10-19
- Biblical imagery
- He’s not stolen it
- Creating wealth ex nihilo
- My conscience is clear
- Give me Jesus, not mammon
- When could Jesus come back?
- I was afraid, so…
- What magnificent buildings
- Isn’t life obvious?
- How Calvinists spread good cheer
- And the world is a big place
- A brightly lit fountain
- Debate: Is the Bible Historically Reliable?
- An unsightly reminder
- Where temptation leads
- The downhill slide of temptation
- What if Luther had never lived?
- A chiasm in Luke 4:31-37
- A well-aimed swipe
- His service is perfect freedom
- And now in full colour…
- 6-7. Images of God and Names of God
- Paul never said that
- The fast track to unpopularity
- Saturday seminars
- Incarnation anyway
- The gospel of the death of the king
- Arrows in the hand
- The curious task of theology
- 23. Biblical overview (3)
- 5. The Authority and Canon of Scripture
- Atheist faith
- Is Christianity outdated?
- One remaining virtue
- Nah – it’s probably nothing
- Not just random shots
- No ordinary temptations
- Sent by the Spirit
- Bit by bit
- Making a bad situation worse
- Bad boy Saul
- Baptism and infant faith
- Waves, particles, divine sovereignty and human responsibility
- Ethical aggravations
- Biblical multicolour liturgy
- Setting the record a bit less wonky
- Just Luke
- Contagious
- Baptism: immersion or pouring?
- Cool Kline
- And finally…
- Not very missional
- Good, but not perfect
- Hardly earth-shattering
- How not to think
- Evangelism Training Day
- How different denominations see each other
- Christopher Ash at LTS
- 3. Prayer
- More Klinean confusion
- Introduction to Christian Ethics
- A chaiasm in Luke 3:1-20
- What I love about Bonhoeffer
- You brood of vipers
- From the wilderness
- A Chiasm in Luke 2:40-52
- Kline’s curious conclusion and other stories
- David, Saul and Jonathan and their clothes
- Introduction to Christian Ethics
- 2. Godliness and theological study
- 22. Biblical overview (2)
- Reaching the human heart
- Acoustic Psalms
- A church near you
- Police apology
- Sing-along theology
- Urban myth
- Light for the nations
- They’re YOUR children
- Does liturgy matter?
- Jesus renews our work
- The holy name
- What did Simeon see?
- How to read
- The real apocalypse
- Don’t look for the seed
- High status
- 1. Approaching theological study
- Trinity and incarnation
- Priest-King-Prophet revisited
- The totalitarian West
- Thinking like Jesus
- Love makes all things easy
- Evangelism training, 5 Nov 2011
- Priest – king – prophet
- Liberte, egalite, fraternite, ironie
- Electrifying
- A reasonable faith
- Holy seed
- Colouring for kids
- Reason has no answer
- Last orders
- From biblical theology to systematic soteriology
- Asa’s prayer
- The Glory of Kings
- Why do we sing Psalms?
- Climbing Mount Romans
- Four horns
- 16 good reasons to say the creed
- The greatest joy of a parent
- Get integrated
- The next President of the USA?
- Sunday School ideas
- Just toooooo busy
- Don’t Hail Mary
- The greatest of historians
- Thought for the Day
- That explains (almost) everything
- The Road to Serfdom
- Super eight
- Syllabus now online
- Queueing round the block
- Both/and
- The Gospel according to Luke according to Peter
- Do not be afraid
- Why four Gospels?
- More on Levi’s three sons
- Levi’s three sons
- The story of Jesus
- From the horse’s mouth
- Does intertestamental history matter?
- A multitude of counsellors
- Guided Reading Course – apply now!
- Two hopeless doorstops
- Everything Jesus does
- Robin Hagues
- Four big ones
- Order, order
- Edited highlights
- ‘Tis mystery all
- The joy of total depravity
- Delayed disclosure
- Keep on asking
- Two lessons in biblical narrative
- Making waves
- Up close and dangerous
- A brief introduction to Calvinism
- Passionate Proclamation Evangelism
- The unedited highlights
- Athanasius contra mundum
- Stay the night
- Rising from sleep
- Wordsmithing
- How important are the Psalms?
- God will pursue me
- The donkey challenge
- Prayer
- Change
- Trinity Church York
- Stop being so “sensible”
- Listen to Ros
- You belong to Jesus
- The minimum wage is dumb
- Still not old enough to know better
- Lockridge unlocked
- God’s in hot pursuit
- Faithless thieving cowards
- Voddie Baucham in Denmark
- Cherish moderation
- Infant faith
- Which, being translated, means…
- The unsullied word
- Perfect humility
- Whatever you do, plan something
- Beautiful wives and masculine husbands
- Christ Church Southampton
- More on humility and ontology
- Take my life
- Too close for comfort
- Here’s a question…
- There is a higher throne
- Our prayers for the fall of Islam
- Unbelievable things sometimes happen
- Don’t fight his battles for him
- Notes to self
- A tangled web
- Ascension Day
- Everything lasts
- The hermeneutics of the “Stop” sign
- Trinitarian conundrums
- Calvin agrees…
- Jesus wins
- Over-repaying your debts
- A year in the life of Eli
- Good news
- Tyndale jackpot
- Money, money, money
- Sing to win
- Colouring for kids
- John ain’t crazy
- Bible Matrix
- The attack on the family
- Rotten branches
- Make Poverty History
- All have sinned
- Get used to the Pope doing… what?
- At just the right time…
- Any questions?
- And the winners are…
- Stop pushing people over
- A Spanish Inquisition every couple of days
- Calvin competition
- The King’s English
- Never too late
- The showcase of Christian unity
- That’s just human nature
- Cuba for Christ
- Calvin competition
- Jesus for Jews
- Emotional pornography
- God’s terrible justice
- Family Conference, Saturday 7 May
- Hell on earth
- Washing up
- Word, Breath, Breather
- Pretty dresses and outboard motors
- Police state for kids
- Cheap women
- Your spouse is also your neighbour
- New ways of sinning
- The wrong kind of spiritual leadership
- Good reading
- Worth exploring
- A very dangerous game
- Not just a test case
- Church by the Bay
- These three are one
- An infinite ocean of being
- Evidence from the experts
- Sermon outline – Galatians 6:1-2
- Kicking God out of schools
- Another intriguing question
- Eccentricity
- Family Conference Programme
- He is everything to you
- Vain repetition?
- All the time in the (new) world
- Search the Scriptures
- Might as well fill it with something useful
- Gerstner on Edwards on Hell
- After Hours, Wednesday 23 March
- Yawn
- The Bible doesn’t say that
- The Dawkins Letters
- Ad fontes
- Pictures of the Almighty
- What’s next?
- Not blessed inaction
- An accidental discovery … about YOU
- How to record sermons
- We luuuurve the Christian Institute
- Christian Institute meeting
- Baby believers
- Happy 2nd birthday, Emmanuel
- Chateau Bavinck, 1921
- His sacred lips
- A doctrine well worth defending
- More from Chesterton
- The Quotable Chesterton
- Abortion news
- Correcting the Codex
- After Hours, Wednesday 23 February
- What a cool school
- Emmanuel Family Conference, 7 May 2011
- Theologian, know thyself
- No King but Jesus
- Call on the name of the Lord
- This would be an experiment worth trying
- Guard my lips
- We are not worthy
- The last enemy
- Can Islam and Christianity tolerate each other?
- Human sacrifice?
- You are not your own
- Phew – for now
- The sacred supper
- Go thou and do likewise
- Centre stage
- What do you wanna say?
- Words of destruction
- The “threat of force” fallacy
- Emmanuel Guided Reading Course
- The age of tolerance is over
- Self-examination
- BBC tabloid trash
- Law and gospel
- Good old stuff
- Christians in the media
- Exegetical courage – like Calvin
- After Hours kicks off again
- Preached history
- Global Church Directory
- Am I really a Christian?
- A new song
- Remain in him
- Reformission Scotland
- Bad guides to guidance
- One body
- Street preacher wins court case
- Time is not the great healer
- Extremely Significant Variations?
- Offer up your children
- A song for Christmas
- A death sentence for following Jesus
- Renewing the city
- You’re no George Herbert
- Be thou my vision
- You must be mad
- Jesus ain’t frightened
- You didn’t choose me…
- Definitely still not ashamed
- You just can’t carry on
- Are Ministers really lazy?
- Not ashamed
- Don’t diss the Greeks
- Who needs the sacraments?
- Calvin’s seven sacraments
- What every Minister needs
- The heresy of heresies
- Ministers, you have plenty of time
- Singing the Psalms
- Frankenstein’s monster
- Who is to condemn?
- High praise indeed
- With justice like that…
- Dividing the church?
- A personal letter from Said Musa
- Repentance
- God is like an artist
- Not just visible or invisible
- The church is your mother – discuss
- In court today
- Somebody’s been busy…
- A school of idolatry
- Preachers, take note
- Another evening out in Southgate
- Professional detachment
- Abimelech, you’re already dead
- Calling all musicians
- For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
- The new age of the Spirit
- Something to look forward to
- Faith alone
- Two female bookends
- Turn it up to 11 and rip the dial off
- Beyond simplicity
- Frame on Horton
- These Are Two Covenants (2)
- A gentleman in Geneva
- I’ll be back…
- Not Ashamed
- Getting personal
- Christians in Iran
- Emmanuel on iTunes
- Judges in one breath
- After Hours in Southgate
- Rend your heart, not your garments
- A poignant image
- No king in Israel
- The violent physician
- When I consider your heavens
- Call a spade a spade
- Matthew Henry was a hermeneutical maximalist
- Ruth – The Musical
- Faith embraces Christ
- Schism tuition
- It DOESN’T matter
- Every fourth word was Christ
- What British evangelicalism needs
- Good news for Leith
- Something new for Southgate
- The Bible is beautiful
- Heading off to university
- An argument with John
- Put bitterness to death
- Pictures of the Israelites?
- Policing the boundaries
- Listen carefully
- If the Earth were a pea
- Factionalism is heresy
- A whole lot of water
- People in glass houses…
- Calvinist drifters
- I’m a strict Muslim
- Hell hurts
- A brief introduction to baptism
- Sermon outline – Judges 5
- Sermon outline – Judges 4
- Last chance saloon
- Our Redeemer
- Everything worth knowing
- Intellectual property
- The blessing of unanswered prayer
- More Hebrew help
- The Lord abhors a rigged jury
- Hebrew weak verb cheat sheet
- Gödel’s theorem in apologetics
- It’s better to die
- A pneumatic drill without ear defenders
- Beginning with Moses
- 1 Samuel and Genesis
- Shamgar? Who he?
- Sermon outline – Judges 3:31
- Sermon outline – Judges 3:12-30
- Bad science
- Calvin-haters
- Who’s really important?
- Cynical, but sadly true
- What is an evangelical church?
- Filthy
- Out with the old
- After Hours
- Like Father, like sons
- Tragedy
- In the beginning
- Don’t forget
- Welcome home
- Sermon outlines – Judges 1-3
- Everything under his feet
- Nothing is beyond repair
- Mocking the crucified Messiah
- An outline of Ruth 2
- Sacraments are symbols
- The re-evangelisation of Europe
- Singing Psalms
- Jesus is illegal in Scotland
- Holiday church
- Killing babies
- Brief introductions to the Bible
- Chief Inspector of Schools doesn’t understand education law
- The Arminian doctrine of election
- Leave it all behind
- We are not better theologians than God
- Revealing structure
- That’s what the world thinks of this sermon
- Sacraments are means of grace
- Two kinds of election
- Chesterton would be delighted
- Right to the end
- Fit to be chosen?
- Marketplace evangelism
- Taste and see
- Can we be good without God?
- Calvinism in the spotlight
- Distraction? Nah
- Advice to a young seminarian
- Theology from a bunch of very old guys
- Covenantal climax
- Don’t grieve the Spirit
- Tablets of stone
- John Calvin on TV
- Take a look back down the mountain
- Christ the coffin-maker
- Open doors
- The Christ of the Covenants
- Death and rebirth
- The Faith of Our Fathers
- Ups and downs
- More atheism confusion
- Fish for dinner
- Tick the box
- Building God’s house
- The day of reckoning
- Everything created by God is good
- All you need
- Two political blunders
- Another reason to sing with VOLUME
- Mother of God?
- A brief reprieve from the lunacy
- These Are Two Covenants
- God’s two books
- St Barnabas Dalston
- His passion for our life
- Swimming the Channel
- No, it hasn’t
- O come, all ye sceptics
- Who’s afraid of the big bad world?
- Slow and steady
- Pass the band-aids, I’ve got gangrene
- Cartoon sex for kids
- Real science, real faith
- Incarnation, not condescension
- Unsurprising
- Baked noodles
- Diagrams of Jesus
- Diversity without division, unity without confusion
- The failure of the United Nations
- Turn it upside-down
- Hudson Taylor
- That in his death all might die
- Rusty bike syndrome
- Greater privilege
- Tread carefully
- A real test of character
- Open air evangelism
- Two American Pastors
- A few thoughts on Lent
- The triumph of grace
- Mark on Mark
- Feeling hungry?
- Walk humbly
- Two adulterers and a rapist
- A slightly bigger splash
- Written on whose heart?
- That’s nice
- Trinity Church York
- Like a tree with many branches
- Children are being nationalised
- Faith and works
- One and a half cheers
- It’s the singing
- Bible guides – Mark 8:22-9:1
- God makes me strong
- One sin
- Knocking stuff all over the floor
- Defining the image
- Just one a day
- Get on your knees with the old guy
- Moving house
- A husband of but one wife and all that stuff
- Change of conference date
- What’s the point?
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 12:1-13
- Your King
- Setting the ball rolling
- Besieged
- The Jesus Comic
- The Lord sees our faith
- By jove! I’m being humble!
- Rebuilding the walls
- Lifted
- Making friends with Samson
- He may be an heretic…
- Let’s face the music and dance
- Changes to the ESV
- A doomed experiment
- Causing offence
- He doesn’t grow faint
- Let love be our guide
- Sometimes you’ve got to say something
- Breeding licenses
- Streams in the Negeb
- The message of Christmas
- The sober philosopher
- Cheating
- Perfectly happy
- That’s beautiful
- Red letter Bible
- The splendour of the three
- A deafening silence
- Three and one
- A greater reward
- God unchanging
- The right kind of frustration
- Unconfessed lies
- ‘Nature is God.’ Discuss.
- Behold the Lord?
- Pictures of Jesus
- A full and frank exchange
- Hungry
- Notes on Noah
- Sola Scriptura
- Let God bear witness
- Building up
- Before you begin…
- Guidance
- Evangelism inspiration
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 11:4-7
- Unspectacular godliness
- He opens his most hallowed lips
- Did Plato read Moses?
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 10:26-39
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 10:19-25
- Helping Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 10:1-18
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 9:11-28
- Teach us to pray
- The domineering pastor
- Bye bye, Mummy
- The cross-shaped life
- Three lettuces
- Hebrews 10:19-25
- More thoughts on sacrifice
- Another good book on Hebrews
- Logical fallacies (3)
- Slaughtered lambs and leaky radiators
- Logical fallacies (2)
- This looks good
- Logical fallacies (1)
- Science and Christianity
- Logic and theology
- It couldn’t happen again
- Any and every situation
- Unmissable
- Asking the right questions
- The great reversal
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 9:1-10
- Anyone seen that altar?
- I’d rather be a slave
- Squeaky brakes
- Presuppositional apologetics doesn’t work
- Bible guides – Mark 8:1-21
- What’s new about the new covenant?
- Hebrews 7:20-28
- That’s better
- Only by faith
- Setting the wheels in motion
- Growing pains
- X-ray questions
- Seeing through new eyes
- Edwards on justification by faith alone
- Hebrews 7:11-19
- Practical preterism (2)
- Bible Guides – Mark 7:24-37
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 7:4-10
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 7:1-3
- Dealing with disagreements
- Practical preterism (1)
- What is preterism?
- Hebrews 7:1-3
- Lots of hefty dollops
- Just a handful
- Theocentric sin
- Who’s going out?
- Melchizedek
- The Bible and the Qur’an
- Matthew and Kirsty
- Bible guides – Mark 7:1-23
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 6:9-20
- Roberts on Bavinck on Calvin
- From the horse’s mouth
- Happy birthday, John
- Gold dust from Esther
- Don’t listen like THAT
- Pump up the volume
- Crank it up, John
- Resuscitating Paley
- No rational explanation…?
- Nobody knows
- Calvin on the radio
- Mind-broadening
- Keep your nose out
- God’s undertaker
- Covenant signs
- What’s in a name?
- Short-sighted
- Dashed hopes
- Bible guides – Mark 6:30-56
- Broken and poured
- Objections to preterism
- U-turn
- Caesar just overstepped the mark
- Books on Hebrews
- Sermon outline – Ascension
- Security
- Bible guides – Mark 6:1-29
- 100 Hebrew translation exercises
- He ascended on high
- Eating Jesus?
- Bible guides – Mark 5:21-43
- Imitate this
- The lovely law
- Bible guides – Mark 4:35-5:20
- Sermon outline – Blessed assurance
- Bible guides – Mark 4:1-34
- A new angle
- Blessed assurance?
- Reasons for godliness
- Stop feeling sorry for yourself
- Those who live by the sword…
- Salvation through judgment
- One bread
- Bible guides – Mark 3:7-35
- Bible guides – Mark 2:13-3:6
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 2:5-18
- Forgiveness
- No one ever drifted into maturity
- Free will
- Bible guides – Mark 1:40-2:12
- Out of nowhere
- What a turnaround
- Bible guides – Mark 1:21-39
- Bible guides – Mark 1:1-20
- Eat and worship
- A respectable profession
- Freedom
- You can’t unburn charred wood
- Hey – you missed a bit!
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 1:5-2:4
- An extraordinary man
- Praise God for unanswered prayer
- Nothing hurts like hell
- A finished work of art
- Marrying a foreign woman
- The most beautiful story in the world
- Spread it around
- The Master Storyteller
- The Art of Biblical Narrative
- Un-believable
- What’s going on?
- Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
- Stop trying to save the world
- Jesus for Jews
- Sermon outline – Hebrews 1:1-4
- Hebrews 1:1-4
- Big brother
- Their chains will be refashioned as crowns
- Sheep for the slaughter
- Sermon outline – Psalm 22:22-31
- Everything matters
- The inadequacy of law
- Living by faith
- A man of few words
- Drink it in
- As for me and my house…
- A spiritual banquet
- Just trying to please all the right people
- ‘I am so sorry…’
- Study guide to Mahaney
- Try telling that to your cow
- How many times must I forgive my brother?
- A sneaking suspicion
- Legalism
- This present darkness
- Better than I deserve
- Who d’you think you’re looking at?
- Pastoral objectivity
- Living the Cross-Centered Life
- A chiasm in Psalm 22?
- Plenty of room for optimism
- God never lets go
- Not like their fathers
- The example of the cross
- The victory of the cross
- The deliverance of the cross
- Mission impossible
- Strange animals
- Pragmatism is traditionalism
- Returning to reality
- Just plain ignorant
- Lessons learned
- Thickest of all
- A table in the wilderness
- Somewhere better
- Right to the edge
- Realpolitik screws you up
- Jonah 4
- Reform begins at (someone else’s) home
- The old boys’ network
- Stupidity on stilts
- A prophet with a death wish
- Three Peters
- Satisfaction
- Wrong motives
- The March of Folly
- Wings of refuge
- Jonah 3
- Swallow hard
- The prophet resigns
- A change of clothes
- Building God’s City
- A trophy of grace
- Excuses, excuses…
- You’ll never walk alone
- The two Johns
- Just what we do
- Loving our enemies
- Jonah 2
- God is good
- Heirs of John Owen, arise
- Stop kidding yourself
- A neat way out of a sticky situation
- The perils of liturgy
- Another book on Jonah
- Evidence for the resurrection
- Disciple what?
- Ambitious parents
- What do YOU know about suffering?
- Books on Jonah
- Anxiety and humility
- The unsleeping enemy
- This shouldn’t be tempting
- What was he thinking?
- Humility: True Greatness
- That ain’t forgiveness
- Wise fools
- How are things going with you?
- That’s where the government does WHAT?
- In his own little way