Logos refocuses, leans into its history of Bible study tools
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“Having sunset its church management products marketed under the Faithlife brand, including Equip, Live Stream, Giving and Sites, Logos will now move into the spotlight as the company’s primary public-facing brand encompassing the Logos Bible Study App, Proclaim, Lexham Press and other products.” - RNS
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Dueling Midrash: Satan vs. Jesus in the Temptation in the Wilderness (Part 1)
Read the series.
(Matt. 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-13)
Most Christians do not think of Jesus’ wilderness temptation as including extensive debate between two rabbis who were arguing over midrash (appropriate interpretation). The debate between Jesus and Satan could well have been an extensive debate; perhaps many Bible passages were hurled back and forth with only a few summary examples mentioned.
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Book Review – Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
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“In Keltner’s words the goal of making our ‘sense of self recede’ is quite counter-cultural. For decades, the dominant ideas in psychology… have been that the self is the highest priority and that self-expression, self-discovery, and self-actualization… are the keys to the meaning of life” - Breakpoint
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400 years ago, philosopher Blaise Pascal was one of the first to grapple with the role of faith in an age of science and reason
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“Whatever one’s religious beliefs, Pascal teaches that all individuals have to make a choice between faith in some reality beyond themselves or a life without belief. But a life without belief is also a choice, and in Pascal’s view, a bad bet.” - The Conversation
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Book Review – Discovering Dispensationalism
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“What is unique about Discovering Dispensationalism is that the contributors seek to highlight key dispensational principles that can be found in nearly every era of church history.” - DBTS Blog
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Shamanism, Percussion, and First Corinthians 6:12
The online Encyclopedia Britannica provides the following information about shamanism and percussion:
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The Meaning of Music
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“beauty is an objective reality, grounded in the nature and work of God Himself…. Even those who reject the idea of universal truths and are cynical about our ability to truly know anything cannot help but wrestle with the pull of beauty.” - Breakpoint
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Podcast: The Problem of Evil
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Jacob Elwart interviews Ben Edwards on the problem of evil. - DBTS Podcast
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Coming Soon: Christianity and Liberalism, 100th Anniversary Edition
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“Ligonier’s one-hundredth anniversary edition of [J. Gresham Machen’s] classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, shows a new generation that God’s message of salvation is timeless.” - Ligonier
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