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Stephen Steele

Stephen Steele

Stephen is minister of Stranraer RP Church in Scotland. He is married to Carla and they have four children. He has an MA from Queen's University Belfast where his focus was on C19th Presbyterianism.

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Christ in Scripture

Jesus in Every Book

September 19, 2023

Lists like the one below may be a means to help us follow Isaac Ambrose’s exhortation: ‘Keep still Jesus Christ in your eye, in the perusal of the Scriptures, as the end, scope and substance thereof’.

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Christ in the Old Testament

Jesus: True and Better (from Calvin to Keller)

August 15, 2023

A memorial service for the late Tim Keller is being held this afternoon. One of the things Keller will be remembered for is his Christ-centred approach to the Old Testament. He often summarised

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Westminster Confession

Reading the Confession in Context (1): 'Authentical'

July 05, 2023

Responsible preachers – and thoughtful Bible readers – are aware of the danger of taking verses out of context. A similar danger, which many of its adherents are less aware of, applies to the Westminster

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heaven

Jesus can’t wait to see you either, Tim

May 19, 2023

It’s not unusual for us to think of the believer’s desire to be with Jesus. But how often do we think of Jesus’ desire for us to be with him?

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discouragement

Serving God in Unglamorous Places

May 16, 2023

Lentil fields need defended because God's people need fed. And because once you lose them to the Philistines, it's very hard to get them back again.

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Controversy

It's Not Enough to be Right

March 21, 2023

It’s been well said that it’s possible to win the argument but lose the person. Similarly, it’s possible to be on the right side of a debate, but conduct ourselves

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Tragedy

Killed by what they thought would save them

January 28, 2023

Seventy years ago, on the last Saturday morning in January, the MV Princess Victoria left the port of Stranraer in South-West Scotland. She was heading for Ireland with 179 people on board – but

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unity

What Majoring on the Minors Will Do to You

January 17, 2023

One of my favourite books of 2022 was the republication in one volume of three works by the nineteenth century Irish Presbyterian Thomas Witherow, under the title I Will Build My Church. (For

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Westminster Confession

A Westminster Divine and an Alexandrian Codex

November 15, 2022

At the heart of the critique of modern Bible versions by some in the Reformed world is their assessment of the Greek manuscripts on which they are based.

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Textual Criticism

Textual Confidence

August 27, 2022

Has God’s word been deliberately tampered with over the years? Have verses teaching the deity of Christ been systematically removed from our Bibles? Are the differences between ancient, modern and Reformation-era Bibles

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The Moon is Always Round

January 25, 2020

How would you go about explaining to a 3-year-old that the baby sister he’s been excitedly looking forward to meeting isn’t going to be coming home? That at 39 weeks she’

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