Three Phases of Spiritual Formation
I wrote this piece a few years ago and it still comes up from time to time. One of those times came last
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Charge to Class of 2016
Here is my charge to the RTS Washington class of 2016 on the occasion of its commencement May . It is adapted from
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Lovely Wisdom and Three Types of Fools
I preached from Prov 6:1-9 this past Sunday at the wonderful Christ the King Anglican Church in Alexandria, Va. The sermon title was “Sons,
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Calvin the Exegete
In Richard Muller’s helpful article entitled “Calvin’s Exegesis of Old Testament Prophecies” he summarizes the great Reformer’s approach and in doing so touches
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From Deep to Deep: Water in Psalm 42
I have considered Psalm 42 (“As a deer pants for water brooks…”) among my favorite psalms for some time. The highly intimate prayer speaks
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Where the Morning Lies
This poem by Emily Dickinson is about a child’s question that is really a human question, a Sunday-morning congregation’s question. It struck me
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Tim Keller on Preaching in a Secularized Environment
While the nature and extent of secularization has been questioned of late (see this post on Peter Berger’s recent shift in thought), there
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