Amazon YA Best Book of the Month "Rapture Practice"
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“Hartzler’s coming-of-age memoir is funny, laugh-out-loud funny at times, and his slide into ‘sin’ is fraught with a combination of thrill and guilt…” Omnivoracious
What is the "New Perspective on Paul"? A Basic Explanation (Part 3)
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In the various presentations of the New Perspective on Paul or NPP, the centrality of the call upon sinners to repent and believe in the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ, and the promise of forgiveness and eternal life with God when they do is seriously compromised. Think about these words from the end of John 3: “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (Jn. 3:36).
The solemnity of these words strikes everyone who reads them. The difference between everlasting life and abiding wrath is belief in the Son. What is it that must be believed? The answer to that question is the reason why John wrote his Gospel. After recounting the crucifixion and resurrection John focuses upon Thomas’s doubt and the Lord’s answer to that doubt. Jesus stresses belief in Him in that context. Then John adds his summary:
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Review of "The Multiplying Church"
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Discerning Reader reviews the last in a series of books by Bob Roberts, Jr., published by Zondervan.
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Book Review - Deep and Wide by Andy Stanley (Part 2)
Continued from Part 1
Rules of Engagement
Toward the end of the book, Andy Stanley gets into the subject of preaching and engaging people and finally how a church can become “Deep and Wide.”
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