As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“With so much of our lives revolving around media consumption, it behooves us to develop what Tony Reinke, in his new book Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age, calls ‘a theology of visual culture.’” - Christianity Today
“We’ve been telling the story for 63 years and counting, after all. We know what happened. But in God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador, historian Kathryn T. Long suggests we may not know as much as we think.” - TGC
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“What moves me,” says Sproul, “is when someone impresses upon me the glory of Christ. My father did that in spades, in all that he taught and in how he lived.” - RNS
By John A. Aloisi. Reproduced from DBSJ 21 (2016) with permission. This installment continues Consideration of Original Sin and the Justice of God and concludes. Read the series.
This is a continuation of Was It Always Idolatrous for Corinthian Christians to Eat εἰδωλόθυτα in an Idol’s Temple?
Here, I want to look at Paul’s question in 1 Cor 10:19 and the answer in 10:20.
Alvah Hovey was, at various times, both a Professor and President at the Newton Theological Institution for fifty-four years in the latter half of the 19th century. His systematic theology, entitled Manual of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, was published in 1877. In this excerpt, Hovey explains his understanding of the intermediate state.1
“What does the Bible mean when it speaks of a coming Kingdom? And how should Christians understand the Church’s relationship to that Kingdom? David Gunn discusses these questions with Andy Woods, author of The Coming Kingdom.” - GARBC
“Stanley conjectures that the modern church and Christianity are resistible because the Old Testament is mixed into Christianity and that believers sense the need to defend the Old Testament’s historicity and accuracy, which leads to alienating ‘post-Christians.’” - GARBC
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