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Beale and Trueman on Biblical Inerrancy

Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting these videos of the Q & A with Drs. Greg Beale and Carl Trueman from the 2011 Clarus Conference:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xO-WIy0Ljs&w=460&h=342][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0v-YPLqVw&w=460&h=342][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvf-bvLquE&w=460&h=342][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6m3fikqoM&w=460&h=342][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCknjrmsaP4&w=460&h=342]

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The “Prosperity Gospel” is not the Gospel

It is appropriate that a prosperity gospel be born in the hedonistic, self-centered, get-rich-quick milieu of modern American society. We are, by nature, pagan. Either our religion will transform us or we will transform our religion to suit our sympathies.…

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Keller and Carson on the Elephant Room

Tim Keller and D.A. Carson have written a helpful article on the Elephant Room controversy. I would encourage you to take the time to read it. If you are not used to reading about biblical interpretation, their second point (“Biblicism…

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Would Augustine invite Muhammad?

A few months before Elephant Room 2 Thabiti Anyabwile wrote an excellent article outlining his concerns over James MacDonald’s invitation to prosperity preacher T.D. Jakes. Sadly, his counsel, and that of many others was rejected. Pastor Anyabwile wrote: This kind…

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Elders, Pastors, and Protection

From Mike McKinley: Last Spring, Thabiti shared some statistics about pastors compiled by the Schaeffer Institute. These numbers emerged from research done from 1989-2006, and my guess is that things have gotten worse, not better, since then. The one that…

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Tim Tebow shows discernment

Tim Tebow had been scheduled to speak at an event in Ohio led by mega-church pastor Rod Parsley. Parsley, an advocate of prosperity teaching will be sharing the stage with notorious word/faith prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland. Tebow canceled his plans…