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	<description>Jesus said, &#34;He who feeds on Me will live because of Me.&#34; John 6:57</description>
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		<title>The Restoration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the most recent sermon preached at New Covenant Presbyterian Church. The text was Acts 3:1-26 and the title, &#8220;The Restoration.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/the-restoration/</link>
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		<title>How to Degospelise the Gospel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Spurgeon in his sermon &#8220;Apostolic Exhortation,&#8221; explained the necessity of preaching Christ. Note especially what he says about the time when Peter preached Christ:
It is noteworthy that Peter, in addressing this crowd, came at once to the very essence and bowels of his message. He did not beat the bush; he did not shoot his arrow far afield, but he hit the very centre of the target. He preached not merely the gospel of good news, but Christ, the person of Christ; Christ crucified—crucified by them, Christ risen, Christ ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/how-to-degospelise-the-gospel/</link>
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		<title>The Puritan Exegesis Project: Thomas Manton on Daniel 7:13, ‘The Son of Man’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudolph Bultmann famously asked, “Is exegesis without presuppositions possible?” Many Biblical scholars since have made clean distinctions between exegesis and eisegesis, sometimes for good reason. Aichele and Phillips (Semenia vols. 69-70) contrast Bultmann’s statement with the discipline of intertextuality: they maintain that the distinction between exegesis/eisegesis is too sharp, incapacitating scholars and ministers who rely on religious texts to express meaning and identify with their authors.
In a sermon on Hebrews 11:5 Thomas Manton (1620-1677) makes a one-to-one correspondence with Enoch’s translation and Christ’s ascension. “In Adam God would give the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/the-puritan-exegesis-project-thomas-manton-on-daniel-713-%e2%80%98the-son-of-man%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Law and its Uses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There continues to be confusion about the precise relationship between the Law and the Gospel, the Law and the Covenant people, and the Law and the Mosaic Covenant. This is the case because there is confusion over the different uses of the Law, as taught in Scripture. There have been a plethora of views, even within the writings of Reformed theologians from the Reformation forward, with regard to the various uses of the Law. It is similar to the variety of views that exist  in attempts to define the marks ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/understanding-the-law-and-its-uses/</link>
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		<title>The Progressive Aloneness of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a striking progression in the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus, in which He is shown to be the One who alone can bear the wrath of God on behalf of His people. At the beginning of the Gospels He has multitudes surrounding Him. Then He narrows it down to the seventy. From that group He chooses twelve. Then He takes eleven into the Garden and pulls three aside with Him. Finally He is left alone to look into the cup that the Father has prepared for ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/the-progressive-aloneness-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>The Value of a Sheep, a Coin and a Son</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting development in the account of the lost and found parables of Luke 15. There are 1 out of 100 sheep, 1 out of 10 coins, and 1 out of two sons. Sinclair Ferguson notes:

Luke 15 contains three parables. In some ways, they are three parts of one larger parable&#8211;a single message about lost things being found, each episode told in a context of increased complexity and heightened tension. 
Scene one describes a Shepherd who has lost one of his sheep. Sheep were, and are, valuable. But ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/the-value-of-a-sheep-a-coin-and-a-son/</link>
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		<title>Vos on the Covenant of Works and Sinai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of current debates over the precise relationship between the pre-lapsarian Covenant of Works and the Mosaic Covenant, it would do us good to remember that many of the Reformed theologians of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries understood that the Law given at Sinai, with its promise of blessing and cursing in accord with its subsequent demand for perfect obedience, was  the reflection of the Covenant of Works. Because of developments in Covenant theology in the 20th Century in the writings of  Meredith Kline and John Murray, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/vos-on-the-covenant-of-works-and-sinai/</link>
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		<title>Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics: Herman of Damascus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inability to know God’s essence is not a puzzle to be solved. It is instead the motive of worship and adoration. Bavinck saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness attempting to find God without the aid of sense-mediated signs and signifiers. For them the result was agnosticism steeped in a rejection of all metaphysical inquiry. So how does a dogmatician outfox the philosopher? Remain objectively certain, or as Bavinck says: stick to your guns.
Karl Barth said that “back to,” is not a good slogan for dogmatics. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/herman-bavinck%e2%80%99s-reformed-dogmatics-herman-of-damascus/</link>
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		<title>John Piper on Abortion and Eugenics</title>
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/john-piper-on-abortion-and-eugenics/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Sermon Preparation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have frequently heard men express reservations about listening to other men&#8217;s sermons on a particular passage upon which they are preparing to preach. While I understand the desire to do one&#8217;s own work and to wrestle with the text before God, I find it hard to believe that the same individuals would not read commentaries or written sermons on the passage they will preach. Why then is there a reservation in regard to listening to sermons? It might be an overly scrupulous desire to be careful not to plagerize, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/thoughts-on-sermon-preparation/</link>
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		<title>The Growing and Living Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the audio from the last Sunday morning worship service at New Covenant Presbyterian Church. The text was Acts 2:40-47 and the title was &#8220;The Growing and Living Church.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/the-growing-and-living-church/</link>
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		<title>Everyone In Christ Will Be Married Forever!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are in Christ Jesus, by grace through faith, you will be married forever.  And Jesus will be married too.  He will not remain single forever.
Jonathan Edwards wrote:
The end [goal] of the creation of God was to provide a spouse for His Son Jesus Christ that might enjoy Him and on whom He might pour forth His love.  And the end of all things in providence are to make way for the exceeding expressions of Christ’s love to His spouse and for her exceeding close and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/everyone-in-christ-will-be-married-forever/</link>
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		<title>Crushing Idols, the Brook Kidron and the Cross of Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting and important representation that runs through the Old Testament, concerning the process by which idols were removed from God&#8217;s people. Israel&#8217;s history was marked with idolatry. From the moment they were redeemed out of Egypt, Israel worshiped other gods. Standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, where they were to wait for God&#8217;s Law, Israel made a golden calf to worship in the name of Yahweh. When Moses came down the mountain he burned the idol, crushed it to fine dust, and poured it into a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/crushing-idols-the-brook-kidron-and-the-cross-of-christ/</link>
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		<title>Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics: Where There’s a Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Bavinck led us onto the negative path to knowing God. Even in the modern age, John Lloyd has humorously noted that we can’t see anything that matters.  We know little about the world and we know even less about God. In Bavinck’s day the doctrine of God’s incomprehensibility tended to agnosticism (Hegel) or a theology equal to anthropology (Fichte). What is gained by the ‘recovery’ of God’s incomprehensibility? Peace that passes understanding? Inexpressible joy? Bavinck can’t wait to find out.
Theology since scholasticism lost the impact of God’s ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/herman-bavinck%e2%80%99s-reformed-dogmatics-where-there%e2%80%99s-a-will/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Sowell and the Intellectuals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like Thomas Sowell. He is not a Christian. I wish he was. He does not use the Bible as the basis for his logically consistent ethical argument; but he has a great mind and a great sense of the inconsistency of the liberal worldview. He is a prolific writer and outstanding economist. His book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics is extremely helpful, as is his Quest for Cosmic Justice. Most recently he has written The Housing Boom and Bust and Intellectuals and Society. Tim Challies has a review of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/thomas-sowell-and-the-intellectuals/</link>
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		<title>New Book on the Atonement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Gabriel Fluhrer has recently finished editing a series of lectures given by J.I. Packer, James Boice, R.C. Sproul, John Gerstner, Sinclair Ferguson, John R. Dewitt and Alistair Begg on the atonement. You can order a copy here. I am sure this will be a very beneficial volume for anyone wanting to grow deeper in their knowledge of the Gospel.
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/new-book-on-the-atonement/</link>
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		<title>Hear These Words (Acts 2:14-39)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is the video from the Sunday Morning worship service at New Covenant Presbyterian Church. The text was Acts 2:14-39 and the title is &#8220;Hear These Words.&#8221;

Hear These Words (Acts 2:14-39) from Nicholas T. Batzig
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/hear-these-words-acts-214-39/</link>
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		<title>Church Planting Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Hauk, a reporter with Bryan County Now&#8211;a division of the Savannah Morning News, was kind enough to interview me today with regard to the work involved with planting New Covenant Presbyterian Church. Chelsea asked a really great question at the end of the interview. You can listen here.
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		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/church-planting-interview/</link>
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		<title>Two New Books on &#8220;Two Kingdoms&#8221; Theology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There has been a fair bit of discussion about the so-called &#8220;two kingdoms&#8221; doctrine in Reformed circles of late.  Two books have recently been released that get at the topic from a (theologically informed) historical vantage point.  The first is by University of Chattanooga history professor William J. Wright and is entitled Martin Luther&#8217;s Understanding of God&#8217;s Two Kingdoms:  A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism and can be found here.  Professor Wright seeks to untangle Luther&#8217;s doctrine from its associations with Christian passivity in the face of Hitler ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/two-new-books-on-two-kingdoms-theology/</link>
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		<title>Enjoying the Son of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John 10:36-38 Do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, &#8216;You are blaspheming,&#8217; because I said, &#8216;I am the Son of God&#8217;? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
Romans 1:4-7 And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.feedingonchrist.com/enjoying-the-son-of-god/</link>
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