tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19791560757364900492024-03-05T12:21:29.177+00:00Timothy TitusAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-19986192651465281312013-07-03T10:15:00.000+01:002013-07-03T10:15:08.063+01:00The reality of death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://northlondonchurch.org/userfiles/file/last_enemy_conference_programme.pdf">Programme & Talk Notes is available</a>. As are these three talks:</span></div>
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<li><a href="http://northlondonchurch.org/talks/recent-talks/talk/1-the-shadow-of-deathexploring-the-experience-of-death-mp3"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Shadow of Death: Exploring the experience of death (David Field)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://northlondonchurch.org/talks/recent-talks/talk/2-people-of-dust-the-biblical-doctrine-of-death"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People of Dust: The biblical doctrine of death (Steve Jeffery)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://northlondonchurch.org/talks/recent-talks/talk/3-yet-shall-they-live-christian-faithfulness-in-a-world-of-death"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet Shall They Live! Christian faithfulness in a world of death (Steve Hayhow)</span></a></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-48236937687158859332013-07-02T22:24:00.000+01:002013-07-03T10:15:43.853+01:00Classical, Christian & Cool? <div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-1449674511903342162013-06-14T13:04:00.000+01:002013-06-14T13:04:00.187+01:00Radio 4 Minutes<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-35799021108346118922013-06-14T09:14:00.001+01:002013-06-14T11:22:26.175+01:00Gospel perspective adjustment<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's a perspective on life not often heard (I expect) in the Scottish Parliament:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Let me entreat you to be far from the thoughts of leaving this land. I see it, and find it, that the Lord hath covered the whole land with a cloud in his anger; but though I have been tempted to the like, <b>I had rather be in Scotland beside angry Jesus Christ, knowing He mindeth no evil to us, than in any Eden or garden on the earth.” </b>[Samuel Rutherford]</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More strong words from a Scot who was entranced by the person, the works and the promises of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-21514540732379565132013-05-30T16:14:00.001+01:002013-05-31T12:11:25.640+01:00Prior to 25 weeks here is how you do it ... <div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-10809798500374086542013-05-29T16:58:00.002+01:002013-06-01T15:49:35.409+01:00Lions Down Under<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Looks like this must have been <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBwDqypUk4">a load of fun to film</a>:<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="290" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Trvj6K6E-lE?rel=0" width="460"></iframe></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-74941296837564714752013-05-29T14:15:00.000+01:002013-05-29T14:16:23.883+01:00How could they do that to a baby?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is what people are saying after a newborn baby boy in China seems to have been flushed down a public toilet. 'How could the parents do that to a baby?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But we should know exactly how they can do that to a baby. We are doing worse, not in extremely rare cases, but to a fifth of babies here in the UK:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1967, the Abortion Act came into force, resulting in a huge surge in the number of abortions performed in the UK. The ratio of abortions to life births increased from 1 in 46 in 1966 to 1 in 3.8 in 2010. That's right, for every four children that make it as far as the delivery room, one was deliberately killed in the womb. Next time see a handful of kids playing in the park, spare a thought for the one who never got the chance. [this comes from Steve Jeffrey's blog post: <a href="http://northlondonchurch.org/ministers-blog/post/the-truth-about-life-expectancy">The Truth about Life Expectancy</a>]</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And all off this hot on the heels of the conviction of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/kermit-gosnell-found-guilty-murder">Dr Kermit Gosnell</a> in the States. The moral high ground is not geographically located in the 'West' on this one. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-4746501680070487492013-05-24T14:23:00.002+01:002013-05-24T14:24:48.483+01:00A Case Study in Conformism<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brendan O'Neill writes perceptively in <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13518/">this article</a> about the intellectual and rhetorical landscape of the last decade's so called 'debate' over same-sex marriage. You might say he writes bravely even. And that, really, is his point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the course of his piece he quotes <a href="http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2058/article_detail.asp">Christopher Caldwell's paper 'Gay Rites</a>':</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ‘Public opinion does not change this fast in free societies. Either opinion is not changing as fast as it appears to be, or society is not as free.’</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mmmm. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-74750913429570104942013-04-29T11:41:00.002+01:002013-04-29T11:41:41.179+01:00Counterfeit Gods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-24765442404981874112013-04-29T10:23:00.002+01:002013-04-29T10:23:25.306+01:00Demons defeated<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nice animation of Mark 5:1-20. I'll be using this at eXcel on Wednesday. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-46747401848224825942013-04-27T11:12:00.002+01:002013-04-27T11:12:45.351+01:00Science Fiction<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was reading about idols as <i>objects of mockery</i> this morning in Jeremiah 10:15. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then this video shows up on my youtube page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Huh! The idol of history (amongst others) gets what is coming!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-18003017655586770822013-04-24T10:28:00.000+01:002013-04-24T10:28:04.305+01:00Joseph Poulton Interview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Joseph on <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-04-23/purrrrfect-long-running-musical-comes-to-yorkshire/?action_object_map=%5B367222690050180%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.recommends%22%5D&fb_action_ids=10151545085115138&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline%2F">ITV Calendar</a>! Nice advert for CATS!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-7528923118131430402013-03-28T10:16:00.003+00:002013-03-28T10:16:59.862+00:00reMARKable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-15860756662078609242013-03-27T12:21:00.001+00:002013-03-28T08:12:49.159+00:00Magical! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you haven't seen it already, go and see <a href="http://www.catsthemusical.com/">CATS</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is on tour at the moment. And a</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">t it's </span><a href="http://www.grandtheatre.info/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Grand</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> till the weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr Mistoffelees is especially Magical! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nice one <a href="http://northernballet.com/index.php?q=academy/alumni/talking-joseph-poulton">Joseph Poulton</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or is anyone hearing this who is relying upon his or her baptism? I do not care whether you were baptized as an infant or whether you were grown-ip - it make not the slightest difference, if you are relying upon it.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you think that the act of baptism is the thing that saves you and puts you right, whatever you may be doing with your life, you are in the identical position of the Jews. As they relied on circumcision you are relying upon baptism, whether it is sprinkling or immersion, or anything else you make like - mode, again, it does not matter.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyone who relies upon it, and upon it alone, is in the position of the Jew who was relying upon circumcision. [see Romans 2:25-29]</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(p156 </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0851515452/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0851515452&linkCode=as2&tag=timoth-21" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Romans: 1 to 3: 20 - The Righteous Judgement of God An Exposition of Chapters 2 - D.M Lloyd-Jones</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=timoth-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0851515452" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> )</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-54543863497906094522013-03-19T16:21:00.000+00:002013-03-20T09:14:55.325+00:00helping parents not to parent<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The view seems to be that it’s just about all right for women to give birth, but after that can we please separate them from their young as soon as possible, for the sake of the economy?</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Peter Hitchens at his spicy best giving the 'narrative' of how men have again stuffed up women, but this time with the help of women (feminism). <a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/03/we-fuss-over-mothers-then-tell-them-to-dump-their-children-in-baby-farms-and-go-back-to-work.html">Read the article here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dave Thomas is to thank for putting me onto it in his own piece responding to the recently proposed £1200 'gift' to working mums (it is <a href="http://whateveriscommendable.com/2013/03/19/1200-a-year-for-your-childs-mind/">here</a> and well worth a read). </span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-19034138991650083912013-03-19T10:24:00.000+00:002013-03-19T10:24:30.341+00:00Does God care what we eat?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.4thought.tv/themes/does-god-really-care-what-we-eat/emma-scrivener?cntsrc=sn_4thoughttv_facebook">Emma Scrivener on 4thought. </a></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-7929286478412556682013-03-19T09:46:00.000+00:002013-03-19T10:41:10.080+00:00Singing with saplings<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This morning's car journey was huge fun. I just massively enjoyed singing along to <i><a href="http://music.songsforsaplings.com/album/questions-with-answers-vol-1-god-and-creation">Songs for Saplings Vol 1</a></i> (we got through 7 songs in a 20 min journey). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Truly these CD's are one colossal blessing ... fun and formative. Child friendly but in no way childish. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In days of unsteady economics an investment truly worth making (digital download is $5 per album! So not even an investment - A BARGAIN!). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="100" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3701891733/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" style="display: block; height: 100px; position: relative; width: 400px;" width="400"><a href="http://music.songsforsaplings.com/track/who-is-god">Who Is God? by Dana Dirksen</a></iframe>
<a href="http://whateveriscommendable.com/2012/02/21/songs-for-saplings/"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dave Thomas has helpfully blogged about the whole series. </span></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-9802307832419269342013-03-18T14:43:00.003+00:002013-03-18T14:43:51.188+00:00grace all the way back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God himself, in many different ways, prepares for his gracious work in human hearts. He aroused in Zacchaeus the desire to see Jesus (Luke 19:3), produced distress in the crowd that listened to Peter (Acts 2:37), caused Paul to fall to the ground (Acts 9:4), disconcerted the jailer at Philippi (Acts 16:27), and so directs the lives of all his children even before and up to the hour of their rebirth.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even if on their part they have not yet received the benefits of reconciliation and justification and have not yet been born again and given faith, yet they are already the objects of his eternal love, and he himself already leads them by his grace to the Spirit, who alone can regenerate and comfort them.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All things, accordingly, are connect by divine prearrangement to their subsequent 'enlistment' and calling in the church. Conception and birth, family and lineage and people and land, upbringing and education, development of heart and mind, preservation from hideous sins, above all from blaspheming the Holy Spirit, or perhaps abandonment to all sorts of wickedness, disasters and judgment, blessings and benefits, the preaching of law and gospel, distress about sin and fear of judgment, development of conscience and the felt need for salvation: all this is grace preparing people for rebirth by the Holy Spirit and for the role that they as believers will later play in the church.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">True: there is only one way to heaven, but many are the leadings of God both before and on that journey, and the grace of the Holy Spirit is abundant and free. Jeremiah, John the Baptist, and Timothy were brought into the kingdom differently from either Manasseh or Paul, and each performed a different task in the service of God. Pietism and Methodism tend to ignore these leadings, limit God's grace, and want to convert and mold everyone according to a single model. but Reformed theology respects the free sovereignty of God and marvels at the riches of his grace. (p40 <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0801026571/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0801026571&linkCode=as2&tag=timoth-21">Reformed Dogmatics: vol. 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=timoth-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0801026571" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)</span></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13533720554884043032noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979156075736490049.post-78755171004293017102013-03-13T09:07:00.000+00:002013-03-13T09:07:03.047+00:00good people resist grace<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When he (Paul) spoke of the Gentiles being 'without excuse' (Romans 1:20), there was no dialogue with them; they were silent, as if acknowledging the justice of their condemnation. It is the moral man, not the corrupt Gentile, who is disposed to argue, and to resist the unsparing and unqualified judgment that he is in the same predicament as the other, and in the same need of the grace of the gospel.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is significant, too, that this form of argument continues right to the end of the section, at Romans 3:20. The respectable, moral or religious man is much more difficult to convince of his need of grace than the other, and it is long before Paul an arrive at his verdict that 'the whole world' (including the good pagan and the religious Jew as well as the corrupt Gentile) is 'accountable to God' and guilty in His sight (3:19). (p35 <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0948643021/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0948643021&linkCode=as2&tag=timoth-21">Power of God: Exposition of Paul's Letter to the Romans</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=timoth-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0948643021" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It really kicks off </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at 3:57 with Peter Hitchens' introduction. It is meandering. And long. And frustrating as debates can be. But it is very good. And don't whatever you do miss the last 15 mins.</span></div>
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