Republishing older articles

Many of the older articles on this site are PDFs or static HTML pages. Over the next few months, in order to update my site, I’ll be publishing these older articles as blog posts, at a frequency of one post every few days.

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Forget the Channel: a name for this site

I’ve been thinking about naming this site for a while. The new name, Forget the Channel, is taken from the final verse of the hymn ‘May the Mind of Christ my Saviour’ by Kate Barclay Wilkinson (apparently written before 1913, published in 1925):

May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.

The idea is that the site is designed to contribute to the vital task of seeing people come to a saving trust in Jesus Christ. If it furthers that end, it’s achieved its aim. If all it does is make people appreciate Lionel Windsor more, then it’s failed.

The name was suggested by my very beautiful wife, Bronwyn. It’s actually a song we sang while standing together at the Mid Year Conference for Campus Bible Study (University of New South Wales) in 1997, less than a week before I asked her out. We remember the song, because I had to ask Bronwyn what the words ‘forget the channel’ meant, and she patiently explained it to me. We were married eleven months later.

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What is a tree for?

On the Sola Panel: What is a tree for?

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Investing in bookshops

On the Sola Panel: Investing in bookshops

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Stranger evangelism

On the Sola Panel: Stranger evangelism

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The healthy teaching pyramid

On the Sola Panel: The healthy teaching pyramid

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Conversion, regeneration and getting things done

On the Sola Panel: Conversion, regeneration and getting things done

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Bible Resistance

On the Sola Panel: Bible Resistance

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The second commandment

On the Sola Panel: The second commandment

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The enemy of the best

On the Sola Panel: The enemy of the best

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