Tyndale at 500: Part 6 – Shipwreck in Holland

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Tyndale’s monumental publication of the New Testament in English, 500 years ago in 1526, was accomplished through its printing in Worms, Germany. That was the beginning of the real persecution of Tyndale.

Is Pastoral “Desire” a Qualification for Ministry?

The question under consideration in this post is not whether God appoints men to the ministry (He does), but how we know it.

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The Foolish, Isolated Pastor

“And you say, ‘How I have hated discipline! And my heart spurned reproof! I have not listened to the voice of my instructors, And I have not inclined my ear to my teachers!’” (Proverbs 5:12–13, LSB)

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False Logic: The Folly of Claiming the NT Is Needed to Rightly Interpret the OT (Part 3)

The advent of Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, the birth of the Church: these were undoubtedly further revelations. But the coming of Christ was predicted in the OT, and not by means of shadowy quatrains and esoteric understandings.

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Tyndale at 500: Part 5 – “The Words of the Wise”

So many words that are simply second nature to us as English Bible readers spring from Tyndale’s pen. He forever altered our spiritual and theological vocabulary.

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Why Creation Matters, Part 15: Revelation

The Book of Revelation records Christ’s words to the Apostle John about “the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter” (Re 1.19). Four times John includes a creation reference.

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I Thought I Would Be First to Go

It was I who was more prone to impulsive risk-taking and danger. In his short, twenty-six years of life, Jalen always calculated his risks with remarkable maturity.

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Theology and the Power of Music (Part 2)

It is disappointing when a church that would never let a false teacher into their doors or stand in their pulpit, allows the influence of that deception to enter through one of the most powerful tools God has given to mankind—music.

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Tyndale at 500: Part 4 – Life as a Fugitive

Tyndale continued to face tremendous opposition from his homeland. It came in the form of voluminous writing against him by Sir Thomas More, and also through Cardinal Thomas Wolsley’s act of declaring him a heretic in 1529.

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