I love references to Revelation 21:1, the sea-less future. Here Scotty Smith weaves together a prayer of praise and trust as a result of meditating on that picture. As Smith points out, a sea-less future does not mean we’ll never get our toes wet in the renewed creation. Then I saw a new heaven and …

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Some of you will think this is the coolest thing ever. It strikes me pastors would be statistically over-represented against the general population if their interest in making one of these was surveyed. One afternoon, about ten years ago, I attended a general information afternoon to introduce members of the clergy to military chaplaincy. At …

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Douglas Wilson provides the funeral homily for his mother, Elizabeth Catherine Dodds (Bessie) Wilson. (1919-2010) What Abraham Saw When Abraham looked into the future, he saw the day of the Lord Jesus. When he saw it, he rejoiced and was glad (John 8:56). When Abraham looked into the future he saw a city, whose maker …

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The visit of the bishop of Rome to Scotland drew lots of comment around the blogopshere. Presbyterians generally look back to our Confession of Faith from 1646, with its identification of Pope of Rome as the antichrist, and feel we’ve got the market on papal protesting all sewn up. This papal protestor trumps the Presbyterians …

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