Theology

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What Is the Gospel?

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What Is the Gospel? FROM R.C. Sproul Oct 26, 2015 Category: Articles There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you […]

The Church is Not a Drive-Thru Restaurant

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Paul describes the unity and diversity of gifts in the body of Christ by saying: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each […]

Faithful Christians are thinking Christians

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Christianity is the thinking person’s religion. Or, it should be, at any rate. By that, I don’t mean you need to be a high-brow scholar, or have an Ivy League education. You need not be particularly gifted when it comes to formal education at all. There are plenty of highly educated people who don’t truly think, […]

Love, Lover, and Beloved

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“The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason.”(1) Thus begins Augustine’s dissertation on the Trinity, written for those whose perverse love […]

The Cracked Water Pot

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A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from […]

No, Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation

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No, Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation Even in the New Testament, talking with God is mostly unilateral. But he does answer. Rodney Reeves/ June 11, 2015 Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation

The Moral Argument for God

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The Moral Argument for God by C.S. Lewis Lewis’ Moral Argument. The most popular modern form of the moral argument was given by C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity. He not only gives the most complete form of the argument in the most persuasive way, but he also answers major objections. The moral argument of […]

Seeking the Lost

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Martin Luther, as a herald of the Reformation, exclaimed that the church must be profane. It must move out of the temple and into the world. Luther looked to the Latin roots of the word profane, which comes from pro-fanus (“outside the temple”). If Christ is not relevant outside the church, He is insignificant inside […]

What is God preparing for you?

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What God is preparing you for is greater than where you are now currently. As I wrote that line I was encouraged ; you see God is not done with you, He knows where you are and is still working with you, for your future. I remember Moses, as he ran from Egypt, a man […]