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Borrowing Brains: Favorite Missionary Biographies
I’m taking my own medicine. I recently urged the members of TCBC to expose themselves to missions in a variety of creative ways, one of which was reading missionary biographies. I confess that b… more →
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P.D. James and the Mystery of Mysteries & History
wrote 2 weeks ago: I was reading the Maclean’s from a couple of weeks ago and came across an article about P.D. J … more →
Return to Winter Writing
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wrote 3 weeks ago: View outside my window For lack of a better apology, I’m Back. The big renovations are done an … more →
Borrowing Brains: Favorite Missionary Biographies
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wrote 4 months ago: I’m taking my own medicine. I recently urged the members of TCBC to expose themselves to missi … more →
Awash in History
wrote 5 months ago: As we strip our second floor back to the brick wall in our spare time and I strip the township … more →
Appropriate Gratitude for John Calvin
wrote 5 months ago: I’m grateful for the ministry of John Calvin, who was born 500 years ago today. I’ve esp … more →
What I'm Reading: John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine & Doxology
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wrote 5 months ago: My exposure to John Calvin’s life and ministry has essentially been limited to very regular (a … more →
Introducing The Puritans Society
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wrote 5 months ago: My friend Andrew Henderson has invited me to participate in reading theological classics with him at … more →
Reno at Renaissance
wrote 6 months ago: I am up to my ankles in old plaster – well to be truthful, my husband is at the moment. We … more →
Garage sales in Hensall
wrote 7 months ago: The streets of Hensall, Ontario were thronged with the bargain-chasers and the curious yesterday mor … more →
History Roadshow
wrote 7 months ago: According to the Seaforth Expositor, in 1882, James Boynton left Bluevale to walk a rope across Niag … more →
Ben Is on a Crusade...
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wrote 11 months ago: …and he’s making a lot of sense. The crusades are a blight from church history, not some … more →
John Wycliffe: A Fascinating Case Study of a Political Churchman
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m studying several biographies of John Wycliffe (link) in preparation for a lecture on his l … more →
Borrowing Brains: Biography on Wycliffe
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m doing some studying on the life and ministry of John Wycliffe. Can anyone recommend partic … more →
Gilber Tennent PDF
wrote 1 year ago: You can download a pdf of the recently posted study “The Life and Ministry of Gilbert Tennent … more →
Lessons for Today from the Life of Gilbert Tennent (4 of 4)
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wrote 1 year ago: We too need to balance heart religion and uncompromising orthodoxy. We must beware of the extreme po … more →
Gilbert Tennent's Contributions to the First Great Awakening (3 of 4)
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wrote 1 year ago: Though Gilbert Tennent is outshined by such men as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, his contr … more →
Gilbert Tennent's Theological and Ministerial Distinctives (2 of 4)
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wrote 1 year ago: It is sometimes easiest to classify a man’s positions by considering his friends and foes. Tennent h … more →
Gilbert Tennent's Personal and Ministerial Life (1 of 4)
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wrote 1 year ago: In his own day Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was a renowned pastor and leader of the first Great Awake … more →
The Life and Ministry of Gilbert Tennent (Preview)
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wrote 1 year ago: Over the next several days I’m going to post the text from a lecture I delivered six years ago … more →
