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You know, over the last couple of weeks I have not been able to shake off one phrase and that phrase is ‘Means Of Grace’.  This phrase traditionally means prayer, The Word, Communion and Baptism.  However, what has been playing on my mind is the realisation that these things, in particular prayer, The Word and  Communion are the “MEANS” God uses to pour His grace in to our lives.  If I am running

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I have just read an excellent entry over at Adrian Warnock’s Blog.  Tim Keller has been with them recently and shared some thoughts on preaching that are profound, simple to understand yet very challenging.  Check out the full thing here Tim also mentions to check out an article he did in the Christianity Today magazine called “The Gospel In All It’s Forms”  again, definitely worth a read!

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Hi folks, yes it has been a while since my last post, however, I am hoping to pick this back up again now!  My 1st post back is to highlight 5 reasons to study theology.  Hope you find these interesting, I found them via Tim Challies’ Blog.   You’re a theologian already… Why do you need to study theology?  Because theology isn’t something only a Professor of Theology has–we all

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Check out this link to some info on a church in the states that started with a small group of people who started out to study theology together using grudem's systematic theology, and now to date, 800 members have been  and done the same thing!Wow, Plains Evangelical has  started something great me thinks!  just 785 members to go!Koinonia: Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology read by 800 members of

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As Cited by Bob Kauflin at the recent Desiring God Conference:    When man's natural musical ability is whetted and polished to the extent that it becomes an art, then do we note with great surprise the great and perfect wisdom of God in music, which is, after all, His product and His gift; we marvel when we hear music in which one voice sings a simple melody, while three, four, or five other

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Hi folks,I saw this interesting quote on evangelism over at between Two Worlds blog and thought it was worth sharing:...Even if we acknowledge that there will be ‘gospel’ things happening all over the place in church, it is also important to say that evangelism is not the purpose of Christian assemblies. It is certainly not their focus. In the New Testament, churches are characteristically the

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Here is an excellent quote from David Pawlison that I found over on Between Two Worlds.David is addressing the issues of overly personal application of the scriptures, I especially like his idea of God raising Kings & Queens not puppets - Awesome!Between Two Worlds: iMonk interviews David Powlison on “Reading the Bible For Personal Application”But there’s no magic answer to protect us from

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Church Matters: The 9Marks BlogOur sin must be extremely horrible. Nothing reveals the gravity of sin like the cross. For ultimately what sent Christ there was neither the greed of Judas, nor the envy of the priests, not the vacillating cowardice of Pilate, but our own greed, envy, cowardice, and other sins, and Christ’s resolve in love and mercy to bear their judgment and so put them away. It is

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Here is a great quote from an interview with J.I. Packer where he addresses the unfortunate tendency we all have to write off as irrelevant those of a different generation to the one we occupy, check it out:Shane Rosenthal: What do youthink about a niche marketing approach that has by virtue of thedifferent worship styles--teen pop, alternative, and adultboomer--created generational segregation?J

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I seen an excellent quote over at on earth as in heaven blog. It lets us see what Theology done rightly actually does for us, I hope that all of us involved with Digging Deeper at PEC experience this!Christian theology is specifically charged with the task of making problematic our relationship with God, of presenting God to ourselves and others in such a way as to be confronted with a person

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Here is a book for your wanted list:Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen WorldCertainly looks like a must read.

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I read a very insightful and challenging post today over at the resurgence blog.It was that elder statesman of evangelicalism JI Packer. Driscoll had asked him what things young Christian leaders need to be solid on to be good leaders for the next 50 years, he gave the following answer:Regeneration God-Centered Theology Godliness Begins at HomeTrinityCheck out the whole article here: where he

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Hi folks,check this out! Listen to the whole of the new Third Day albumn even before itis released.JesusfreakHideout.com Listening Party!Jim

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I read this over on Justin Taylor's Blog recently, it is some great advice from retired Pastors. Who best to teach us about pastoring than those who have endured till the end! For those of you in some sort of pastoral work, I hope this does your soul good:Successful pastoral ministry requires not only theologicalability, biblical fidelity, and a good personality; it requires hardwork! Pastors

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I just thought I would give you guys a ointer to some excellent online biblical training courses. The guys input to this site are of an excellent standard of the likes of John Piper, Bryan Chapel. I have recently started the preaching course and I have to say that it is of the highest standard, considering it is free!If you would like to do some good sound theological studies at home with the

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Hi folks,I was recently preaching at my home church on Ruth Chapter 3. Wow! What a chapter, amazing examples all thru it, from Boaz the Kinsman-redeemer being a type of Christ, to the beautiful way the book of Ruth shows us that God is in Control of all things. The most challenging thing for me was how Ruth and Boaz at the threshing floor, with so many decisions to make, will they act correctly

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Hi folks,I just thought you might be interested to know, who it is that is reading this blog with you, I was surprised to find that most of them are from the states!! Welcome to all our American brothers and sisters!It has been a real blessing to see how the internet brings people together, like I have always thought, the internet is not a bad thing or even a good thing, it is a tool that can be

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I came accross this great post by Justin Taylor over at Between Two WorldsIt is a quotes from JC RYLE about the importance of the Word in our lives and our daily use of it!Here are some highlights and the full thing can be read here:You live in a world where your soul is in constant danger. Enemies areround you on every side. Your own heart is deceitful. Bad examples arenumerous. Satan is always

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I read the following on a Blog I read often, it is John Bunyan's Marks of a person who has trusted in Christ for Salvation or is in the process of. May God let this be true of all of us!Do these things characterize your life?1. Are you burdened with your sin, recognizing it as an exceedingly bitter thing?2. Do you run from your sin as you would a deadly serpent?3. Do you recognize and flee from

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Some good books have just been released that are all worth your consideration for some summertime reading. I have seen all 3 recommended by CJ mahaney and lots of others out there on the internet, please have look over the chapter titles below and perhaps invest in 1 or all 3 for some summer reading:What Is a Healthy Church Member?There is a desperate need for more books written by

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Hi folks, I thought I would post this quote from John piper which I have taken from an interview he did with Adrian Warnock over on Adrian's Blog. May God make this a reality in all our lives! whether you are satisfied in God really makes a difference about whether you can glorify God . . . If you are not passionate about God you won’t glorify him as much. If you are more passionate about

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Hi folks,I read this interesting thought from John piper recently about presonal evangelisim, please read and be fired up to get to know the people around you every day. It certainly has challenged me and I hope will do likewise for you.(Author: John Piper)I'm working on a book on the new birth. The final chapter is designed to give encouragements for personal evangelism. I just added a quote by

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Here is a great article from the 9marks site about false Gospel that we all could be placing our faith in and as such be missing the mark with our faith! In their book How People Change, Tim Lane and Paul David Tripp lay out seven counterfeit gospels. Formalism. “I participate in the regular meetings and ministries of the church, so I feel like my life is under control. I’m always in church, but

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I recently came across an excellent little article by JC Ryle all about what he considered of utmost importance for the preacher - Keeping it simple. I have found this article deeply challenging as I start out in my preaching experience and thought it would be worthwhile sharing with all you other preachers out there and those that listen to preachers each Sunday!Some quotes from the article

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Hi, as many of you will know, we are working our way through the 6 steps to talking about Jesus course in our Wednesday night meetings and this last Wednesday we look at how we connect with those around us and in a way that is relevant to them. I thought it might be useful to share these 6 steps to being culturally relevant that I read recently on another Blog, and I certainly agree with them in

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I was recently given a book to read called Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds, all I can say is thank you Bob Cochrane! It is a fantastic read and is challenging me on many levels!I thought I would share a little of who this EM Bounds was and some quotes from one of his books 'Power Through Prayer'.Life of EM BoundsBounds was born in Shelby County, rural Missouri. Although apprenticed as an

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Hi folks,another great online aid to bible study for all you folks that have access to the net on a regular basis. The memory program now also includes Bethlehem Baptist Church's Fighter Verses (John Piper's Church).How does it work? Well you basically sign up to the service, decide what program of verses you want to learn or design your own program, and hey presto, you get an email testing

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well as you may well want to know, the word on the street is that a pet pig is only useful as an emergency bacon roll, although 2 people did vote they were cute, I am sure one must have been Jon Gemmel!!JC

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These 10 questions come from a pastor called Don Whitney who has a great series of questions for all different occassions. I thought it might be good to start the year off pondering these things of God. I will probably continue to blog some of the other great lists of Questions Don has on his website. A pdf of these questions can be downloaded from here.------------------------------Once, when

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Find details of the great sale going on over at soul survivor, some great worship CD's for as little as £2.50!!!Details below, link at bottom:January SaleThe Soul Survivor Shop January Sale is here. We always offer you all our resources for less than the Recommended Retail Price and give you free postage and packaging if you live in the UK. In our sale we are offering between 25% and 75% off the

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Well back to work today, and back on the blog. I hope you all had a great Christmas and have a very blessed New year!I came accross this website today which is very interesting.Here in their own words is what the site is all about:ChristianVolunteering.org matches volunteers to volunteer opportunities and helps organizations recruit volunteers through online volunteer matching. In many ways

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I seen these following quotes from Lloyd-Jones' book "Preaching & Preachers" on Adrian Warnock's Blog. I found the thought by Lloyd-Jones very helpful and Challenging. It is all too true of us reformed types that we can be too intellectually based and miss the truth of the fact, that if we catch a real glimpse of the glory of Christ or in some way, by the help of the Holy Spirit understand more

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I recently read a very interesting article in one of the 9marks newsletter archives, it was all about what a missional church might look like. I will inlcude some highlights below, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts.JC"But the real crisis is spiritual and theological, stemming from the church’s failure to understand the postmodern context in which it now dwells. If the church wants to

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For all you church planters and church leaders who are determined to take a thoroughly sound Gospel, in a thoroughly contemporary way, to a thoroughly changing culture, here is a useful list of books that has been doing the rounds on the net. I have marked with an asterix ones I feel are particularly useful and have added a few of my own to the end.No Place for Truth by David WellsGod in the

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Here is one for all you bible college students or those in to serious bible study:Zack Hubert has now launched the ResurgenceGreek Project (www.regreek.com), "a free online Greek tool for those that don't have the software for your own personal Greek study."For more info on Resurgence visit the site here - I highly recommend it!

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You can download a PDF of the X-Ray questions for yourself here.These questions are by a guy called David Powlison, who, until very recently I had never heard of! However, after reading a blog by piper on how challenging and helpful David's work had been in his own life. Shortly after that, these x-ray questions were all over the blogosphere! I have to say, if you take these questions and work

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Hello and welcome!this is a new blog that will hopefully help tell the story of God's work at Plains, Airdrie Scotland. In particular through Plains Evangelical Church.I will also be looking to collate thoughts and discussions on how the Church relates to culture in this post-modern world of ours, with an obvious emphasise on the culture I find myself in.And finally I will no doubt bore you to

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