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GFEs And Excusing Wilson’s Rhetoric

I’ll never forget seeing my first GFE in print. For journalists, few things are more humiliating. A GFE is a mistake—a misspelled name, the wrong number of attendees at a city hall meeting, a misreported batting average. But in journalism, we don’t . . . Continue reading →

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Three AI Challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly developing. It’s hard to keep up with some of the new ethical challenges Christians are facing. Especially our young people are being bombarded with all kinds of tempting new possibilities for distraction, entrapment, deceit, and apostasy. . . . Continue reading →

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Contentment For Sojourners And Exiles? The Call Of 1 Peter 1:13

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The apostle Paul that we meet in the pages of Scripture did not appear to have many things going for him. Height? Not so much. Public speaking ability? Ask the Corinthians. More importantly, Paul’s missionary life was full of suffering, by which Paul learned and passed on a lesson as he proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ and the beautiful inheritance of the saints in light: “I have learned,” he writes, “in whatever situation I am, to be content” (Phil 4:11). Continue reading →

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Two Peoples of God?

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Dispensationalism has fallen on hard times. What was the dominant eschatological view of twentieth-century Evangelicals, dispensationalism today is overshadowed by the resurgence of postmillennial eschatology and the ever-stalwart amillennial position. This article offers a brief critique of dispensationalism. My remarks about dispensationalism . . . Continue reading →

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The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 4)

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In our previous installments in this series, we have explored our culture’s discomfort with death, noting it as God’s judgment on sin, yet also observing that Scripture offers a wonderfully tender perspective. We discussed how believers, by God’s grace, escape the second . . . Continue reading →

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What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 2)

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Unfortunately, when most people think of Reformed theology, they think of the doctrine of predestination. The reasons for this have more to do with the critics of Reformed theology than with what the Reformed themselves confess. Indeed, one of the great weaknesses of the modern Reformed renaissance is that it tends to re-define Reformed theology almost entirely in terms of the doctrine of divine sovereignty. Continue reading →

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How Presbyterians Shifted On Church-State Relations

I am not suggesting that American Presbyterians of the eighteenth century would approve of the political arrangement of the twenty-first century. Surely, in many respects they would not. They assumed an overwhelmingly Protestant nation where Catholics and (more so) Jews could be . . . Continue reading →