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Jesus and History

Craig Blomberg, one of our most important New Testament scholars, has written an excellent article entitled “Jesus of Nazareth: How Historians Can Know Him and Why It Matters.” The article was posted by The Gospel Coalition. If you would like…

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Measuring Up

This was posted over at Pure Church. I so identify with these words that I had to post them. This is an excerpt are from Don Carson’s excellent book Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor (pp. 92-93). “So many aspects of…

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T4G Highlights

God willing, in a few weeks the MEBC pastoral staff will pack up and go to Together For The Gospel. Here are some highlights from the 2006 conference. What a blessed time that was!

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Soul Winning for Dummies

I found this posted over at Paleoevangelical. Mark Dever read this same passage at the Gospel Growth conference in October. It’s from C.S. Lovett’s little book “Soul Winning Made Easy.” It represents so much of what was wrong in evangelism…

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Eldredge and The Voice of God

Tim Challies offers this helpful review of John Eldredge’s new book.If you would like to learn more about the biblical teachings regarding God’s guidance check out:Discovering God’s Will by Sinclair FergusonFinding The Will of God by Bruce Waltke

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Ordination

The ordination service for Kris McGee was a blessed time. It was great to hear more about the church plant in Kansas City. I was also moved by the words of Kris’ brother John. Thanks to all those who made…

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Take and Read

Excellent introductions to Christian theology and living: I love these books because of their biblical faithfulness and readability. You do not need a seminary degree to fully appreciate and benefit from these wonderful books. I would encourage you to add…

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Jesus’ Tomb?

Thomas Madden wrote a terrific response on National Review Online to last year’s outrageous and now almost fully discredited “documentary” which aired on The Discovery Channel. If you recall there was much buzz about the supposed discovery of Jesus’ ossuary…

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Scientific Ethics?

In a field where the notion of God has been completely removed there is little room left for questions of right and wrong. Ethics become entirely utilitarian: if it can be done then it is good.Check out this story from…