Re PTC Mission 2010 again, one of the candidates compiled statistics for the week. Door Knocking Out of 878 doors we knocked on, 555 were not home (63%), 240 said no thanks (74% of those who were home), and 83 conversations were held. In other words, about 1 in 10 spoke to us. Of the [...]
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College Mission (part 3)
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Mission week (part 2)
July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
If anyone was interested in knowing more about PTC’s 2010 mission, here is a summary done by one of the candidates, Phil Court: Mission to Hume. Here is a picture, too (but I have omitted the photos showing the Sunday evening youth event). For the doorknocking and busstopping, we did the old questionnaire routinue: ‘My [...]
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The End of the World
March 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The wonderful Epistle of Barnabas from around 100 A.D. says that there are seven days of world history. One day is as a thousand years with the Lord. So there are 6000 years until the return of Christ. In Bishop Ussher’s chronology, the world commenced on the evening of September 20, 4004 B.C. Barnabas’s six [...]
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Calvin on Prayer
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments
In the original five points of Calvinism from 1536 (see another post yet to made to this blog-website), prayer was one of the five points. You can’t be a Calvinist without prayer! Here is an article published in Australian Presbyterian in December 2009. The theme for that edition of AP was the Lord’s Prayer. My article is [...]
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The Religious Life of Theological Students – B. B. Warfield (abridged)
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Benjamin Warfield delivered an address at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1911 on the topic, ‘The Religious Life of Theological Students’. An abridged from of this was published in the Western Reformed Seminary Journal (8/2, 2001, 23-27). Yes, an already short document was reduced to just a few pages. I’ve made a few extra changes, added [...]
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