More Than Doing: Categories for Applying God’s Word
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What Am I Supposed to Do with This?
“Why is our time in God’s Word not as life-transformative as it should be?”
What Does Untainted Leadership Look Like?
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“Adam became a leader, or a steward, because God made him one. God is still the One who gives leadership to people ‘since there is no authority except from God’ (Romans 13:1). Leadership before it was tainted consisted of watching over and working.” - Eric Geiger
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Mere Misattribution? Why We Misquote C.S. Lewis
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“Other false Lewis quotes can even make him appear to put forth theologically disputable claims, like this quote, referenced by big-name leaders and cycled with regularity: ‘You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.’” - Christianity Today
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Kept through Faith: Eternal Security in 1 Peter 1:1-9
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“”Eternal security is one secondary issue—an issue which sincere followers of Christ debate—that has presented significant challenges for many congregants in the pews.” - P&D
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A Word About Proof-Texts
When one is associating a belief with the text of Scripture it is never wise to choose texts from obscure, debated or overly figurative portions of the Bible. Why go to a vision of Zechariah when you can go to an epistle of Paul for the same doctrine?
When tying a doctrine concerning the Church to Scripture we find good men like F. Turretin running to the song of Solomon. Surely it is unwise to appeal to the Song of Solomon, since the assumption that the Song is actually speaking about the Church is a decided long shot.
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Preserving Our Identity as Makers
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“Welsh poet David Jones lamented decades ago the sacrifice of our divinely inspired vocation as artists and makers to machines. The advent of AI threatens to hasten this decline.” - Acton
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What Is Glorification?
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“The Bible tells us that the end of our sanctification will be our glorification, when all vestigial remnants of sin will be removed from our character. We will be pure. No more doubt. No more fear. No more error. No more pain.” - R.C. Sproul
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Augustine’s “Confessions” Unpacked – Book Review
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“Interlacing representative, essential, mostly brief passages from Confessions with a breezy but incisive ongoing commentary… Dr. Kreeft navigates us through the mind of a man who, in changing his own world, helped lay the foundations for our own.” - Imaginative Conservative
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Blessing and Cursing
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“the concept of blessing lies at the very heart of the gospel. The Apostle Paul highlights this in his letter to the Christian believers in Galatia…. ‘In you shall all the nations be blessed’ (Gal. 3:8).” - Ligonier
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Biblical Faith Seeks Scientific Understanding
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Collin Hansen talks with Hans Madueme, author of Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences. - TGC
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