Theology
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New Puritan Rewrite: Perkins on The Art of Prophesying
William Perkins is the newest addition to the Puritan Rewrites page. The Art of Prophesying was first written in Latin and then translated into English in 1607. It is generally counted as the foundin…
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Richard Sibbes Bruised Reed
I have just finished the next book in this series, and it is a gentle one: The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes. If you have not met Sibbes, he was a Puritan preacher in the early 1600s, known in his o…
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The Mystery of Providence, in modern English
I’ve added a new page to the site: John Flavel’s The Mystery of Providence, rewritten in plain modern English and free to read online. Flavel was a Puritan pastor in Dartmouth, Devon, in the 1600s. H…
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Calvin's Institutes in Plain English
I've been working on a modern-language translation of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin wrote the Institutes so ordinary Christians could understand what the Bible teaches. Ov…
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John Owen Book Translation
I've been working on a new modern translation of John Owen's book "Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers". The idea was to write something that would be accessible to a new Christian and useful to …
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Remembering Tim Keller
I was reminded this morning in a review of the year of the death of Tim Keller. The news of Tim's passing on May 19th this year left many in the Christian world feeling that a giant had left us. Kel…
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Can I trust the Bible?
I think this is one of the most important questions we can address because pretty much all of the other questions we will deal with come down to what does the Bible say? That means I need to know if I…
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My brilliant strategy
Sometimes I think I really am quite brilliant. I have moments when I can just see and everything just seems so obvious. Perhaps it's a function of watching too much "Mentalist". The temptation to thin…
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Focused Genesis
“Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, ‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be…
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Changed by my phone
I have had a bit of a break from blogging and Facebook because I think my phone has changed me. I don't mean I've been changed dramatically in the last few months but rather I think over years my phon…
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