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Charles Spurgeon on Free Will and Predestination

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Charles Churchill

There has been some discussion of late here at The Preacher regarding free will and predestination, so I thought I would post a rather lengthy quote by Spurgeon on the subject. In this instance Spurgeon does not speculate on the … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Sunday: A fragment of Easter

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Charles Churchill

I wrote this about fifteen years ago, shortly after reading that Edgar Allen Poe occasionally wrote the middle of his poems first and then worked backwards and forwards from that central thought. Sadly, his technique did not work for me. … Continue reading →

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Making Jehovah into a Lovesick Girl

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Charles Churchill

It’s Friday and the Almighty is spending the evening at home. He’s met someone you see, someone named Chad, and, well, He likes him oh so much. So, sprawled across his infinite pink bedspread, He is waiting by the phone, … Continue reading →

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Is There Truth Outside of Christianity?

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Jamie Kiley is wrestling with a worthwhile question, namely, “What does Paul mean when he says that ‘everything belongs to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God’?” Her question was prompted by the book Velvet Elvis … Continue reading →

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Soulwinning, Methodology, and Going in unto Hagar

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Abraham had a problem. God had made a promise to him, and to the best of Abraham’s understanding, God had not delivered. Plus, the way things looked, God was not planning on delivering any time soon. And it was starting … Continue reading →

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Are You a Man of Athens?

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Read this and then anwer: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) (Acts 17:21) Sounds like the blogosphere. Sounds like youth culture. … Continue reading →

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The Mundane Deception

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Charles Churchill

If you listen to commercials or read print ads, you’ve probably run into the word “mundane” a few hundred times or more. You may have even used it from time to time in everyday conversations. And why shouldn’t you? It’s … Continue reading →

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Protecting your family

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Charles Churchill

There are certain Bible verses that stay in the forefront of my thoughts. They are typically verses with strong imagery, with straightforward application, the sort of verse that you can see in action around you practically anywhere you look. I … Continue reading →

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A World Without Hypothetical Situations

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Charles Churchill

I don’t have time to give this the treatment it deserves, but for those of us who hold to the Reformed position, this deserves some serious thought. Perhaps you’ve heard the old bon mot, imagine a world without hypothetical situations. … Continue reading →

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Al Mohler, Ann Coulter, John Edwards, and the word “faggot”

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Apparently Ann Coulter recently called John Edwards a faggot and Al Mohler has written a piece distancing himself from her actions. And while I agree with Mohler in general, here’s where I start to lose the thread of his argument: … Continue reading →

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