Rediscovering Joy: Addressing a Critical Need in Today’s Church
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“something has happened in the last several years. The joy quotient for most people, even followers of Jesus, has taken a dive.” - Challies
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“something has happened in the last several years. The joy quotient for most people, even followers of Jesus, has taken a dive.” - Challies
“…today, an increasing number of schools are defunding, closing, or repurposing their libraries under the banner of ‘progress’ … and under the false assumption that libraries are just rooms full of books which can be found online or stored in a cheaper or more convenient location.” - L&L
“Based on two decades of interviewing skeptics and Christian apologists, Brierley offers an autobiographical account of continued faith in the face of the strongest arguments against Christianity.” - TGC
“Caleb Morell’s A Light on the Hill takes the long view. This history of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., reminds us that the work is no less God’s work when we’re arguing about pandemic church closures, prohibition, or integration.” - Acton
The virgin birth of Christ has always been proclaimed as a doctrine to be believed by the church. It is heralded as a historical event which must be accepted as a fundamental or core truth of the Christian faith. For example, The Apostles’ Creed states:
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary…
Similar statements appear in The Nicene Creed, The Chalcedonian Creed, and The Athanasian Creed.
“Ortlund consistently makes a convincing case, carefully defining what is at stake, showing a conversance with the magisterial documents under critique, drawing from non-Protestant scholarship and arguing for modest, minimalist claims that are difficult to refute.” - London Lyceum
“With the many illiberalisms duking it out in the public square, from both left and right, a new book puts forth what should be a clear winner: a decidedly conservative defense of ordered liberty” - Dan Darling
“…though Pagel’s ideas are presented as the latest in critical scholarship, they’re the same tired claims that have been trotted out since the nineteenth century, if not earlier. Even worse, the author fails to mention that the arguments against biblical accuracy and the historicity of Jesus have been repudiated time and again, by multiple generations of Biblical scholars.” - Breakpoint
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