The Cripplegate’s Top Five Books We Read in 2018
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“I asked the other regular writers on the Cripplegate if there was a book that stood out that they read in 2018 and here is our answer.” - Cripplegate
Life Is Not ‘Meaningless’ in Ecclesiastes
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“Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End is by David Gibson, minister of Trinity Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s a poignant and powerful exposition of the message of Ecclesiastes.” - TGC
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Calvin's Second Use of the Law
John Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, famously set out what he saw as the three uses of the law. By the term “law,” Calvin explains, “[b]y the Law, I understand not only the Ten Commandments, which contain a complete rule of life, but the whole system of religion delivered by the hand of Moses.”1 Here, in this excerpt,2 Calvin explains the second of these:
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Baptism for the dead
The subject of baptism for the dead has led to some very strange doctrine. The text under consideration is I Corinthians 15:29
1Co 15:29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
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