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Around the Horn (December 7)

Pain Needs Interpreting "Pain itself – though very unpleasant – doesn’t tell us much. It hurts. It’s uncomfortable. It’s upsetting. We don’t want it. Often, we just want it to go away! But good spiritual

Andrew Fuller Friday: On Truth and Holiness

Truth is that which furnishes the motive for every exercise of true holiness.—If once we are enabled to behold its glory, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, it changes us into

Around the Horn (November 30)

Bible people don’t want to say more or less than the Bible does "I think many of us are very quick to baptise and sanctify our applications, assuming the form of what we do is necessarily what

Around the Horn (November 16)

In the Middle of the Greatest Story "Sometimes it’s hard to imagine you’re actually in the right story, like maybe you stumbled into someone else’s story. Have you ever felt that way- that the story

Andrew Fuller Friday: Some Thoughts on Open Communion

In answer to your question, “Do not the bounds of Scriptural communion extend to all who are real Christians, except their practice is immoral, or they have embraced dangerous heresies?” There are three different grounds

Around the Horn (November 9)

Grow in Contentment Through Worship “ 'In every circumstance, I have learned to be content.' The implication of the word “learned” is that it was not always like this for Paul. He grew in contentment

Andrew Fuller Friday: On the Influence of Baptism

That Christian baptism is properly administered only by immersion, and to those who make a credible profession of faith in Christ, it is no part of our present design to prove. Addressing you, we shall

Andrew Fuller Friday: On Original Holiness

The principal objections that are made to the foregoing statement of things are taken from—the nature of original holiness, as it existed in our first parents—the Divine decrees—particular redemption—the covenant of works—the inability of man—the

Around the Horn (October 26)

The Resilient Leader "I learned lessons in leadership from playing rugby. One of them was that fitness in sport is about recovery rate. Fitness is not just how fast you run and how hard you