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"Now-a-days, if a man is very reverent towards the word of God, and very desirous to obey the Lord's commands in everything, people say, "He is very precise," and they shun him; or, with still more acrimony, they say, "He is very bigoted: he is not a man of liberal spirit;" and so they cast out his...
Scandalous by D.A. Carson Discovering God in the Stories of the Bible by Phil Ryken Wired for Intimacy by William Struthers The Masculine Mandate by Richard Phillips
"Throughout the history of the church the greatest preachers have been those who have recognized that they have no authority in themselves, and have seen their task as being to explain the words of Scripture and apply them clearly to the lives of their hearers. Their preaching has drawn its power...
From an address by John Piper: In April, 1831, Charles Simeon was 71 years old. He had been the pastor of Trinity Church, Cambridge, England, for 49 years. He was asked one afternoon by his friend, Joseph Gurney, how he had surmounted persecution and outlasted all the great prejudice against him in...
It has been said, "It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. NOW opens it's mouth and once again removes all doubt. In a report from the LA Times the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is offended by the Focus on the Family Super...
I have had my fill of Brian McLaren. I have read his books up through "Generous Orthodoxy" which is neither orthodox or generous. But I am glad that others are still reading him with a clear eye so that those who have drunk from the bitter stream of error can know that there still is a voice for...
From a contribution by Andreas Kostenberger in Faith Comes By Hearing : Five Observations About the Gospel: 1. Divine, not human: The gospel is God’s saving message to a world living in darkness and a humanity lost in its sin. The gospel is not a human message, nor was its conception a function of...
Actor Brian Cox teaches young Theo some Hamlet...
Much of the Bible is polemical in nature because in the Scriptures God is routinely refuting errors. We see this as early as Genesis which operates in part as a polemic against pagan creation myths. The prophets often functioned as polemicists, in some cases even mocking pagans and their gods. This...