Month August 2008

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Al Mohler on the Saddleback Forum

Check out this helpful post from Al Mohler on Saturday evening’s civil forum at Saddleback. “With the press pushing the event as a “new face” for American evangelicals, I was not overly hopeful. Given the hype, I was positively unhopeful.…

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Take and Read

Some books never lose their relevance. Here is one that could have been written yesterday: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen. You can get this classic now for just $6.50. It is a book I highly recommend. During the…

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Christians Should Be Like That

I just saw on the internet that Shawn Johnson, the American female gymnist, finally won her gold medal, on the balance beam.  For me, the highlight of the Olympics was not Michael Phelps, great as that was.  I thought the…

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New Links

Check out some of the new links in the “Bible and Theology” section of this blog. Among the new links are:Best CommentariesNew Testament GatewayReligion Online

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Kudos to Saddleback

I must confess that I watched the Saddleback forum with Senators McCain and Obama rather reluctantly. I am not a fan of most politicians and televised “debates” are usually not debates at all. But the Saddleback forum was different. Rather…

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Extinguishing Hell?

Check out this article by Al Mohler on the diminishing belief in hell among evangelicals. “Undoubtedly, much of this can be traced to currents in the larger culture, where non-judgmentalism, a therapeutic view of life, and a thoroughly modern view…

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Abortions in U.S. have declined

At Saturday evening’s Saddleback forum Senator Obama asserted that under George Bush abortions in the U.S. have not declined. Actually, abortions in the U.S. are at their lowest rate in decades. Check out this story from U.S. News and World…

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Mary of Bethany

In the third in a series of articles in which we examine Jesus’ encounters with various individuals, we take a look at the conversation of Jesus with Mary of Bethany in Mark 14:1-9. Jesus was on his way to Calvary.…