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		<title>Courage and Chivalry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is courage?  I suppose that is a good question for modern-day Americans to ask. Indeed, I do not think we generally know the answer, or at least not very well.  G.K. Chesterton, however, drew a parallel between courage and the european idea of chivalry which I found fascinating. He wrote: No quality has ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1579&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Doctor&#8217;s Medicine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one know he or she is a Christian? Many who believe that the gospel is true, and would say Jesus died and rose again for the sins of the world, often still have a most difficult time believing this gospel is true for them personally. So they labor under a painful conscience and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1575&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gospels as Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gospels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we read the Gospels? If we expect to be bored by reading the gospels then it is likely we have never learned how to read them aright. The following is a short explanation as to why the Gospels should be approached with the expectation that they can, and will, excite our imaginations and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1568&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preaching from the Gospels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Carson, in the introduction to his commentary on the Gospel of John, offers this helpful assessment of preaching and gospel narratives: The challenge of preaching from the Gospels is, in part, the challenge of preaching from narrative. The best of Western seminaries and theological colleges reinforce the cultural bent toward the abstract, and fill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1566&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priestly Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we to pray in the name of Jesus? Edward Fisher offers a helpful explanation well worth your time to read: It is true indeed, Christ, as a public person, representing all believers, appears before God his Father; and willeth according to both his natures, and desires as he is a man, that God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1554&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marrow of Modern Divinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Covenant Theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading through The Marrow of Modern Divinity and have found it wonderfully helpful! Let&#8217;s face it, covenant theology isn&#8217;t exactly the easiest thing to figure out. There are always those nagging questions. E.g.: Was Israel really in some sort of &#8216;covenant of works&#8217;? What is the exact difference between the &#8216;law&#8217; and the &#8216;gospel&#8217;? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress in Sanctification</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we make progress in Christian sanctification? Is there anything we can do? How do we fight against sin and strive toward obedience? Gerhard Forde&#8217;s words are helpful: But is there not such a thing as growth in sanctification, progress in the Christian life? No doubt there is a sense in which we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Triperspectivalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Water is Thicker than Blood, Tim has posted a must-read section on the importance of clarity with words and in doctrine. Today, the Zeitgeist is one of unclarity, free love, and theological paradox. Whether it be tri-perspectival views that can incorporate two contradictory statements in a moving dialectic, or it be men who despise those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1533&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>à Brakel and à Kempis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever ready any of Thomas à Kempis&#8217;s The Imitation of Christ, perhaps you have wondered how it relates to one&#8217;s Reformed piety? I remember the book came highly recommend to me by a fellow Presbyterian as one of the most impacting books I should read to better understand the Christian faith. I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1528&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Scholastic Orthodoxy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important before entering upon any discussion or debate that one proposes clear and concise definitions of terms. Failure in this area, however, seems quite common today. One wonders whether many of the current debates facing Reformed circles are not precipitated by this very kind of imprecision.  And yet this is merely another area [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brendenlink.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6754413&amp;post=1516&amp;subd=brendenlink&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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