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A Truly Bad Idea

As many of you know the Obama administration is proposing a reduction in the amount of charitable giving that Americans earning $250,000 can deduct from their taxes. We are left to wonder what is the justification for such a truly…

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“The King of the Jews”

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side,…

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Have Your Kids Read

My youngest son has read four of these volumes and is looking forward to the fifth. They are excellent introductions to great lives in church history. There is also a Ten Girls series.

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Jesus in the Flesh (3)

I was prompted to write these posts because of an exchange I had with Dr. Kent Sparks of Eastern University about the nature of Christ’s humanity. You can read the post and following comment thread HERE.It seems clear from the…

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Church Planting and a good Episcopal church

Falls Church, one of the oldest churches in the country is also solidly evangelical. After having been a blessed thorn in the side of its liberal overseers Falls Church finally broke with the American Episcopal church to come under the…

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Ehrman Redux

Darrel Bock is weighing in on Bart Ehrman’s newest hit piece on Jesus and the Bible, Jesus, Interrupted. Bart Ehrman’s Jesus, Interrupted by his own admission says nothing new. It packages what scholars have been saying for two decades. Since…

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“Ancient Word, Changing Worlds” (2)

The opening words of the introduction of Ancient Word, Changing Worlds is a quote by Mark Twain that, sadly, would be voiced (perhaps more diplomatically) by many so-called evangelicals in our own day. “It is full of interest. It has…