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The desire of this note is to appeal to those who hold to cessationist doctrine; who believe the miraculous gifts of the Spirit are not operational in the Church today. My hope is that this does not come off as an attack, but as an appeal or open letter. Perhaps, opening your heart for further evaluation of continuationism. I’ve noticed in my discussion with those who hold to cessationist doctrines a few words that typically draw criticism, one particular word being, “experience.” Now, my theology indeed is affected by experience but this in no way ought to devalue it, if,...

Good evening everyone.Statism continues to run amok in Washington.The O administration is set to soon unveil a Big Bank Bank Bailout...more debt onto debt for as far as we can see.But a ray of hope: there are hints that some Dems as well as the Rs in the Senate have qualms about the Depression & Huge Deficit Act of 2009 which passed the House last week.So we shall see.Meanwhile we can have a lottery: how many Executive Orders will the new president sign THIS week??

Let me say in advance that this post is a bit stronger rhetorically than most of the posts that have appeared on this blog thusfar. I have mulled over these thoughts for several days now, and edited them extensively several times before at last deciding to post them, and I alone take responsibility for whatever offense they may give some. To be perfectly honest, though, after watching a good bit of sheerly negative naysaying about the nature and prospects of Reformed Catholicism being bandied about some Roman Catholic venues, I?ve had enough. I wish to issue not merely a rallying-cry...

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-1843) [The following sermon preached on the afternoon of March 12, 1843, was the author's last in St. Peter's. "It was observed, both then and on other occasions," says Andrew Bonar, "that he spoke with peculiar strength upon the sovereignty of God." The following evening McCheyne's illness commenced and on Saturday, March 25, he went to the Saviour whose glory he lived to proclaim.] "What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches...