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“Jesus, why are you being so insensitive? Why don’t you care more about the people? Don’t you realize that the people you just chased out of the Temple are good guys?” In our day, we wouldn’t be surprised if this was in . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of July 7–13. Continue reading →
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English professors often assume that students can read the novels and poetry assigned for their courses. However, like many of our colleagues, we have come to question that assumption. To gain some insight, we conducted a reading test from January to April . . . Continue reading →
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In this episode Pastor Mike Abendroth looks at Luke chapter 7 and what it teaches us about the assurance of faith. Continue reading →
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Common “wine” is instituted, of indifferent color, undiluted with water because it is called simply the “fruit of the vine” (Mt. 26:29; Mk. 14:25). Thus the Romanists here without reason urge the mixture of water with the wine, which although according to . . . Continue reading →
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V. Christ used bread because with the divine blessing it is of all the elements the most efficacious for nourishing and strengthening the body; the most common, the most familiar and to be found everywhere, easily prepared and the most pleasant. However, . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of June 30–July 6. Continue reading →
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Bob Godfrey, Chris Gordon, And Chris Larson discuss the 2025 State Of Theology Report Continue reading →
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Taking a step back and considering trends more broadly perhaps suggests missional pragmatism is behind some of the disuse or change. In a desire to be relevant or more easily understood, the catechism used and taught is changed to something newer, or . . . Continue reading →
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It got me thinking about church. How many times does it happen that a visitor has a really unfriendly experience their first-time at church? You could have the best “meal” on offer in the city, the best preaching of God’s Word, but . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of June 23–29. Continue reading →
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The translation of the Greek word μονογενής in the New Testament is a subject of debate. The term appears nine times, with four occurrences referring to ordinary “only children,” and the other five occurrences in Christological contexts, all in the Johannine literature. These Christological . . . Continue reading →
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Wafting over the airwaves of the local Christian radio station came the predictable chord progressions of every modern worship song known to humanity. I had turned on the radio to quell the boys’ incessant bickering currently testing my patience, and after a . . . Continue reading →
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Want of a due apprehension of the truth herein hath caused many, especially those of the Church of Rome, to follow after vain imaginations about the state of the souls of the faithful, departed under the Old Testament. Generally, they shut them . . . Continue reading →
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Those of the church of Rome do hence fancy a limbus, a subterraneous receptacle of souls, wherein they say the spirits of believers under the old testament were detained until after the resurrection of Christ, so as that they without us were . . . Continue reading →
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These were the top five posts for the week of June 16–22. Continue reading →
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It is generally supposed by expositors that it is heaven itself which is hereby intended. Hence some of the ancients, the schoolmen, and sundry expositors of the Roman church, have concluded that no believers under the old testament, none of the ancient . . . Continue reading →
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And he was their forerunner also. For although I have no apprehension of the “limbus patrum” fancied by the Papists, yet I think the fathers that died under the old testament had a nearer admission into the presence of God upon the . . . Continue reading →
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In this episode, Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan tackle the pervasive issue of controversy within Christian circles. They discuss the rise of ‘hot take theology’ mentalities, exemplified by figures like Joel Webbon, and the dangers of mistaking attention-seeking for . . . Continue reading →
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The Baptists, especially those of the time of the Reformation, do not hold the common doctrine on this subject. The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, . . . Continue reading →
