The Reformation at 500: Luther’s Stay at the Wartburg (Part 1)
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Why should we praise God—or, for that matter, even care—that Dr. Martin Luther has triumphantly “driven the devil away with ink”?1
A response to Owen Strachan's criticisms of classical theism
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“Strachan begins his program by describing the figures he takes issue with: contemporary protestants who commend Aquinas as a fruitful pedagogue….But his description of our commendation is quite inaccurate; he sets up a very tall straw man” - Samuel Parkison
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Book Summary of Jesus the Dayspring: The Sunrise and the Visitation of Israel’s Messiah
Sheffield Phoenix New Testament Monographs, 43, 2021, 204 pp.
By David H. Wenkel, PhD
Messianic expectations in the first century were varied, but rarely did they include a figure associated with the sunrise or the direction of the east. However, in Luke’s gospel (1:78) the prophetic song (the ‘Benedictus’) of the priest Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, includes a title for Jesus that means the “dayspring,” “dawn,” or “rising sun” (“the sunrise shall visit us from on high” ESV).
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“Christ in All the Scriptures“ ?
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“…please do discover in Scripture all the things concerning Christ, but do not find things concerning Christ directly in every verse of Scripture. Your credibility depends on your successful discernment of the two.” - Snoeberger
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Christ Our Passover
Christians around the world will remember and celebrate the essence of the gospel this weekend — “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3-4).
We believe that the Apostle Paul’s inspired summary statement is true, and we are certain that these events actually happened in real history, providing the basis of our salvation.
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Review - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
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“Power is not a bad thing. It is not a neutral thing, either. It is, first, in the Christian view, a good thing, a God-created thing…. Without power, there will be no glorious eternal reign of the one to whom all power on heaven and on earth will be given. Power brings good to others.” - Mark Ward
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A Review of A Short History of Christian Zionism by Donald M. Lewis
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“Lewis lacks sympathy for his subjects, but perhaps more to the point he applies a sociological lens instead of a theological one….he fails to understand the Christians who support a Jewish homeland because he fails to understand them theologically.” - DBTS
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Was Jesus of Nazareth the Greatest Singer and Musician of All Time?
I recently had someone assert to me that he believes that we must hold that Jesus and the apostles were the greatest group of musicians in the history of the world and not to do so is blasphemy. Apparently, for him, because Jesus was (and is) incarnate Deity, He had to have been the greatest singer and musician ever. He also had to have taught the apostles about music so that Jesus and the apostles had to have been uniquely excellent in their sacred music that they played and sang.
Do you believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the greatest singer and musician of all time?
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Recovering Our Sanity Through the Fear of God
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“…Michael Horton’s latest book, Recovering Our Sanity: How the Fear of God Conquers the Fears that Divide Us… argues that we can only conquer the wrong kinds of fear by embracing the right kind of fear, and that’s what he means by sanity.” - TGC
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Some Thoughts on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Well, I finally did it. I read Dostoevsky. It wasn’t a joyride, so I don’t think I’ll pick up Crime and Punishment anytime soon. After chewing through a meal like Karamazov, I’m doing dessert reading for a while (the book equivalent of Concrete Mixers from Culvers—minimally nutritious, over too soon, but yummy and chunky).
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