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Do Small Group Bible Studies Help Us Understand the Bible?
Ages ago, while a young Christian in college, I attended quite a few Bible studies over the course of four years. Some were better than others. The studies invariably fell into one of two categories. In the first type, one … Continue reading
Charles Spurgeon on Christmas
Over the years I’ve seen various Reformed websites that purport to quote Charles Spurgeon’s views on Christmas. While Spurgeon’s repudiation of Christmas as an ecclesiatical holiday is oft-cited, his accompanying assertions that it is never wrong to reflect on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Spurgeon, Christmas, Church History, Reformed spirituality
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On Commentaries
In the preface to his final volume of Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John, J. C. Ryle offered the following reflections on his extensive examination of commentaries on John’s Gospels: I freely confess that, with increasing years and experience, … Continue reading
The Lost Art of Logic: Genetic Fallacies
A friend recently recommended to me a video promoting something called Family Integrated Church. In the midst of a nicely-done presentation, the video contained some logical gaffes that thoroughly soured me on the case being made. Among these was a … Continue reading
Posted in Logical Thinking
Tagged Argument, Etymological fallacy, Fallacy, Genetic fallacy, John Calvin, Logic, Reformed
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The Best Evidence of Love to Christ
“If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another helper, that he may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees … Continue reading
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Tagged J. C. Ryle, John's Gospel, Reformed, Reformed spirituality, Ryle, The Trinity
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Burger King Spirituality
Recently I stumbled across an article that I first read years ago. The piece, by John Ortberg, was entitled “Happy Meal Spirituality;” in it, he notes that the success of the McDonald’s Happy Meal reveals something important about the American … Continue reading
The Lost Art of Logic
In my sophomore college year, I took an English composition course. Our professor began by explaining that we’d spend our first week learning about errors that his writing students tended to make frequently. I was slightly puzzled when among the … Continue reading
Reformed Rock Stars, Cults of Personality, and the Multisite Church
Several years ago I attended a conference at which Rev. Iain Murray (co-founder of the Banner of Truth Trust) spoke. After the last session, I thought I’d take a moment to speak to him. Some years prior, while I was … Continue reading
Slightly Random Reflections on “Covenanters at the Hub of the Universe”
Church history is often messier than we might wish. In the course of uncovering the past, we sometimes turn up details that we’d prefer not to have found. Yet we have precedents for remembering imperfect stories. The Holy Spirit speaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Cambridge, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
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Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 3
EVENTS LEADING TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CAMBRIDGE CONGREGATION At the 1894 Spring meeting of the New York Presbytery, a petition from some members of the First Boston R.P. Church and First United Presbyterian Church of Cambridge was presented requesting … Continue reading
Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 2
[Part 1 of this series may be read at https://reformedruminations.com/2011/09/19/covenanters-at-the-hub-of-the-universe-part-1/] FIRST BOSTON BUILDS ITS OWN WORSHIP HALL After such a bitter and protracted schism, the First Boston congregation apparently felt a strong resolve to move ahead. Several years earlier, the officers … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Church History, Covenanter, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
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Covenanters At the Hub of the Universe, Part 1
In 1995, in anticipation of our congregation’s 100th anniversary, I set out to do what I thought would be a small research project on the congregation’s beginnings. It soon became evident that I couldn’t properly understand the founding of our … Continue reading
Criticism, Ignorance, and the Vandals
In my senior year of high school, my English teacher was a man we students regarded with a curious mixture of fear and admiration: Marion A. Wash. Unless you were hopelessly dense, you figured out quickly that if Mr. Wash … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Religion and Spirituality, Roger Nicole, Rome, Worldliness
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In Memoriam: Roger Nicole
In the summer of 1981, while living and working outside of Chicago, I worshipped in a small Reformed Baptist congregation in Wheaton, IL. As I prepared to leave for graduate school in Boston, one of the elders of the church … Continue reading
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Tagged Reformed spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Roger Nicole
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Love and Sound Doctrine
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. – John 15:12 In this verse our Lord returns to the old lesson which He has taught before: the great duty of love towards other Christians. … Continue reading
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Tagged J. C. Ryle, New Testament, Reformed spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Theology
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We shall thank God for every storm
On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little … Continue reading
On the Faith of Old Testament Saints
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes (Psalm 119:135) “…It is both important and interesting to mark the repetitions – always new – in this beautiful Psalm. David had just before prayed, ‘Look thou … Continue reading
On Tyranny
The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is … Continue reading
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