Month July 2010

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God’s Knowing and Man’s Knowing

In reading posts at Biologos I have been struck by the biblical scholars who seem to suggest that their apprehension of truth is of higher authority than what is revealed in God’s Word. In other words, when something in the…

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Summer Reading (with the children)

The Church History ABCs by Stephen Nichols & Ned Bustard (Crossway, 2010)   Delightfully produced, hilariously illustrated, the Church History ABCs captures the imagination by introducing children to 26 characters from church history, from Augustine to Zwingli. Bunyan was asked…

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July 27: Acts 14

Every time I’ve ever read this text, I’ve thought how well it describes ministry. In particular, we have here two wrong responses to ministers and their ministry of the Word.  First, people respond wrongly to ministers when they idolize them.…

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July 26: Acts 13

When I was working on my first post-graduate theological degree, we were given the assignment of studying the sermons in Acts and discovering the core of the apostolic Gospel. One of the longer sermons in the book of Acts is…

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Biblical Manhood

Jonathan Leeman has posted a review of Richard Phillips newest book – The Masculine Mandate. Every once in a while, you read a book which seems so basic and solid you wonder why no one has already written it. Greg…

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Ted’s Dangerous Adventure

Just when you think Ted Haggard may have gone away, he reappears. This time he explains to the Wall Street Journal that he “over-repented” for his sins of employing a homosexual prostitute and use of methamphetamine. Biblically speaking, Haggard is…

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Return of the King

According to the Wall Street Journal, Ted Haggard is back.  As Tiger Woods needs to golf and Michael Vick needs to play football (or, from a British perspective `stand around posing in spandex tights, giving high fives and doing little…

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Return of the King

According to the Wall Street Journal, Ted Haggard is back.  As Tiger Woods needs to golf and Michael Vick needs to play football (or, from a British perspective `stand around posing in spandex tights, giving high fives and doing little…

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Teaching Our Children the Bible

Crossway has just released an impressive five volume survey of the entire Bible by Starr Meade. It is designed to be used by parents or teachers to train middle and high school young people to know the Scriptures. Starr Meade…