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Carlton Wynne

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A Story That Ends Badly

The popular description of the biblical gospel as “the story of Jesus” and the attendant call to “make God’s story part of your story” now appears to have its own…

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What Goes Up Must Have Come Down

Recent online debates over the proper pastoral use of biblical commands in the lives of believers have left me a bit bewildered. Apparently, some would see these commands merely as…

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Speaking of Preaching…

Last Sunday each of our slated morning and evening preachers had originally chosen the same text for his sermon–the song of Simeon in Luke 2. I know because I was…

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Union Mania!

As a supplement to Paul Levy’s notice about Dr. Letham’s book on union with Christ, readers of Ref21 might be interested in the audio of a fall conference held recently…

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Modern Debate Over Ancient Texts

[Editor’s Note: This is the first post Rev. Wynne wrote in response to Dr. Evans, which was inadvertently removed last week. We repost it here in its entirety.] Dr. Evans…

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ANE in an AC World

I want to thank Dr. Evans for his extended and thoughtful response to my recent post on Scripture and the ancient Near East. In that post, I expressed my concern…

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Home Repair and Hermeneutics (Part 3)

In a previous post (and here), I noted how sophisticated, Reformed evangelicals are both disclaiming the arrogance of Enlightenment rationalism and skirting the bottomless pit of postmodern relativism, contending that total…

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Home Repair and Hermeneutics (Part 2)

In a recent post, I noted just how easy it is to pick up hermeneutical tools that are ill-suited for handling Scripture, if indeed Scripture is the Spirit-breathed, self-attesting Word…

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Home Repair and Hermeneutics

It will be no surprise to students of church history that God has often used theological challenges, even attacks on biblical truth, from both inside and outside the church, to…

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Praying in the Whirlwind

Lately I’ve been sleeping less to get more done, and therefore feel drained in the doing; so I sleep more and get less done, but worry that I need to…