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Barry York

Barry York

Sinner by Nature - Saved by Grace. Husband of Miriam - Grateful for Privilege. Father of Six - Blessed by God. President of RPTS - Serve with Thankfulness. Author - Hitting the Marks.

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3GT Episode 52: Food Fads & Diabolical Diets

September 12, 2017

Kyle the husband was served white rice and he wants to know why. Aaron the science teacher rants about scientific food studies. Barry the absent-minded struggles to remember videos and movies. It'

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C.J. Williams

Post Tenebras Lux: Celebrating 500 Years of Luther's Influence

September 11, 2017

The Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary [http://rpts.edu/]in cooperation with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals [http://www.alliancenet.org] annually hosts the Westminster Conference that kicks off the school year in early

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Browse Worthy: The Nashville Statement

September 07, 2017

[Nashville Statement](http://Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) | Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood issued a declaration consisting of fourteen articles addressing the gender and

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3GT Episode 51: Heretic! Heretic!

September 05, 2017

From a question that arose during family worship, the prof turns the pastor and parishioner's attention to II Peter 2 and asks how to identify a heretic. For it is a

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Andrew Carnegie

Like Scarecrows in Cucumber Fields

September 04, 2017

That's how Jeremiah mocked the idols of his day. After describing the vanity of people constructing gods from wood, silver, and gold, then setting them up and fastening them so they

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Psalter Project

Psalter Project: The Lord is My Shepherd

September 01, 2017

Our friends at Psalter Project [https://psalterproject.com/]have a new production of Psalm 23.  As they say: > 'The Lord is my Shepherd' captures the heart of Psalter Project'

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David Powlison

Browse Worthy: David Powlison on the Sexually Broken

August 31, 2017

The_Crossway _ [https://www.crossway.org/]blog site recently published a series of four articles highlighting truths found in David Powlison's new bookMaking All Things New: Restoring Joy to the Sexually

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3GT Episode 50: The Noble Martyrs

August 29, 2017

Yes, they made it to 50 (and maybe even a little beyond like the prof)! The guys reflect a bit on their experience with 3GT and hope they can at least double the

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Anne of Green Gables

Kindred Spirits

August 28, 2017

Anyone familiar with Anne of Green Gables will immediately think of Anne's search for true friendship when they hear the term "kindred spirits." This poor orphan finally finding heart

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A Love Greater than Family

August 25, 2017

Psalm 87:2 gives expression to a sentiment of God that is worthy of Christian reflection: > The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.” In

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3GT Episode 49: Taking His Name in Vain

August 22, 2017

What does it mean to take the Lord's name in vain? Our inquiring parishioner wants to know! The 3GTers tackle another commandment, this time the third one. Why is God'

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Devil

The Devil's Glasses

August 21, 2017

No, this post is not about looking at the eclipse. Rather, someone once illustrated temptation in this way. When you are being tempted, the devil sets on your nose a pair of false

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Summer Days, Unread Books, and Butterfly Wings

August 14, 2017

On vacation near Lake Michigan again, here's a memory from ten years ago from my old blog. When I am on vacation, I have one idea of how I like to

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Rural Ministry

3GT Episode 48: Small Town Ministry

August 10, 2017

You got it - we've finally given Kyle his own episode! After we have fun learning more about Winchester, Kansas, we dig into his recent article in _Tabletalk _on rural ministry.

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Browse Worthy: The Slippery Slope

August 07, 2017

Some helpful articles have appeared recently discussing how ministers, churches, and denominations can start the downhill slide down into theological liberalism that destroys evangelical faith, personal holiness, and ecclesiastical integrity. The following posts

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Church Discipline

3GT Episode 47: The Mark of Church Discipline

August 01, 2017

Seriously, is one of the top three attributes of a true church, in addition to preaching and the sacraments, really discipline? How can this be? What about other attributes such as love or

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Motherly Grief

July 31, 2017

The following piece is the sad companion to one I wrote a number of years ago entitled "Fatherly Grief [https://gentlereformation.com/2010/05/17/fatherly-grief/]". Lying next to me, I

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3GT Episode 46: Reforming Women

July 25, 2017

No, the guys are not plotting about how they can try to change their wives. They know better than that! Rather, they look at the growing trend of women studying, discussing, and promoting

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Abuse

What's a Hurting Wife To Do?

July 24, 2017

Following Rebecca VanDoodewaard's article "A High View of Marriage Includes Divorce [https://gentlereformation.com/2017/07/20/a-high-view-of-marriage-includes-divorce/]" here on Gentle Reformation, and with the internet abuzz with Australian

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Divorce

A High View of Marriage Includes Divorce

July 20, 2017

The following article is a guest post by Rebecca VanDoodewaard, author of Uprooted: A Guide for Homesick Christians [http://www.heritagebooks.org/products/uprooted-a-guide-for-homesick-christians-vandoodeward.html] and Your Future 'Other Half': It

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3GT Episode 45: Does ESV = ESS?

July 18, 2017

Grab your English Standard Version (ESV) Bible, look up John 14:10 and 16:13, then compare it with another version. Notice the difference? That's what the prof asks Aaron and

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Australia's Most Beautiful Site

July 18, 2017

Recently I returned from Australia. What a tremendous time I had seeing the land down under! A visit to the Healesville Sanctuary [https://www.zoo.org.au/healesville], a natural zoo set in

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preaching

3GT Episode 44: Flippin' the Pulpit?

July 12, 2017

Last episode the 3GTers talked about flipping the classroom. But the pulpit? With all the technology that makes available famous preachers' sermons, why not just stay home and listen to them rather

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3GT Episode 43: Flippin' with Aaron

July 03, 2017

In this episode we interview one of our own as we talk with Aaron about "flipping the classroom." As an author and popular speaker on the flipped classroom, Aaron describes this

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Athanasius

A Psalm Singer's Sigh

June 29, 2017

Singing the psalms can make you sigh for a number of reasons. The psalms actually encourage us to do so at times. "O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing

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