“Can God be proven? Yes.”
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“Faith and reason have been divorced, and we Christians sometimes swallow that pill without realizing it. But it doesn’t have to be that way.” - Credo
OT Prophecy and NT Prophecy: Essential Continuity
This article (part 4 in the series) posted at Sharper Iron in 2019.
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Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary is giving away books
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“Due to the generosity of a friend of the seminary, we now have ten copies of Dr. McFadden’s book that we’re going to give away to the first ten people who send their names and addresses to [email protected].” - DBTS Blog
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What Counts Is the New Creation
Read the rest of the series on the Book of Galatians. This article covers Galatians 6:12-18.
Paul has little new to stay—he’s shot his bolt, so to speak.1 All that remains is to press a few reminders and offer his informed assessment of the Judaizer’s motives.
See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand! (Galatians 6:11).
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Book Review: ‘World Religions in Seven Sentences’ by Douglas Groothuis
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Groothius “means to do his best to explain what these religions actually believe and why, and then to interpret them on the basis of his own Christian convictions.” - Challies
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Are we ever responsible for other people's sins? How the Bible talks about corporate responsibility and repentance
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“Do we share some responsibility for the sins committed by those who were part of the same immediate family? What about the same religious family? Or what if the perpetrators in the past shared our same skin color? In short, how should we think of corporate responsibility?” - Kevin DeYoung
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Jesus’ Temple Remarks
Read the series.
My Father’s house
Jesus’ childhood narrative in Luke 3:41-51 records the only words spoken by Jesus while a youth. His family joined the caravan for an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. When they could not find Jesus in the caravan, they searched, finally returning to the temple courts in Jerusalem, where Yeshua was in dialog with the learned rabbis.
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Video: Why the doctrine of the assumption of Mary is indefensible
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“In this video, Credo Fellow Gavin Ortlund expresses the Protestant concern about the bodily assumption of Mary and responds to 6 common defenses of this dogma” - Credo
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Mark Snoeberger on evangelical confusion about “being saved”
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“…the devastating result is an invitation not only for unbelievers to ‘come as you are’ or ‘just as I am’—but for believers to do the same—and to feel comfortable staying that way.” - DBTS Blog
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Canonical Prophecy vs Congregational Prophecy: Wayne Grudem’s Argument
This article (part 3 in the series) posted at Sharper Iron in 2019. It is reposted here with original comments included. Read the series.
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