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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Christians and Science
There is a lot of talk today about the difference between science and religion, about the gulf between the Christian and the scientist, the chasm that separates faith from fact. There is a tone to the rhetoric that suggests that … Continue reading
Is There Truth Outside of Christianity?
Jamie Kiley is wrestling with a worthwhile question, namely, “What does Paul mean when he says that ‘everything belongs to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God’?” Her question was prompted by the book Velvet Elvis … Continue reading
Tagged Faith, God, Holy Scripture, Jehovah, Jesus, Knowledge, Postmodernism, Skepticism
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Blog of the Week (3/27 to 4/3)
Featured Blog: This week’s Blog of the Week is none other than the fantastic, the frequently updated, the “now with Edges” (but no knobby things) Bittersweet Life. Shocking? Not really. If you’ve been around this site for long, if you’ve … Continue reading
Tagged Blog of the Week, News
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Soulwinning, Methodology, and Going in unto Hagar
Abraham had a problem. God had made a promise to him, and to the best of Abraham’s understanding, God had not delivered. Plus, the way things looked, God was not planning on delivering any time soon. And it was starting … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Children, Church, Evangelism, Faith, God, History, Holy Scripture, Jehovah, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture, Sin, Theology, Witnessing
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Are You a Man of Athens?
Read this and then anwer: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) (Acts 17:21) Sounds like the blogosphere. Sounds like youth culture. … Continue reading
Tagged Church, God, History, News, Postmodernism
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The Mundane Deception
If you listen to commercials or read print ads, you’ve probably run into the word “mundane” a few hundred times or more. You may have even used it from time to time in everyday conversations. And why shouldn’t you? It’s … Continue reading
New Book on the Way: The Expository Genius of John Calvin
Yesterday, after hearing about it at Challies.com, I ordered The Expository Genius of John Calvin a book by Steven Lawson in his A Long Line of Godly Men series. Calvin is one of those people who have been much maligned … Continue reading
Blog of the Week (3/18 to 3/24)
Featured Blog: This week’s featured blog (see how smoothly and naturally I pretend that Blog of the Week has been a long-running feature here at The Preacher) is none other than Scott Brown’s website, scottbrownonline.com. Scott is an elder at … Continue reading
Tagged Blog of the Week, News, Reformed
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Protecting your family
There are certain Bible verses that stay in the forefront of my thoughts. They are typically verses with strong imagery, with straightforward application, the sort of verse that you can see in action around you practically anywhere you look. I … Continue reading
Posted in Fathers, Mothers
Tagged Children, Daughters, Death, God, Holy Scripture, Knowledge, Life in general, Responsibility, Sheltering, Sin, Sons
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A World Without Hypothetical Situations
I don’t have time to give this the treatment it deserves, but for those of us who hold to the Reformed position, this deserves some serious thought. Perhaps you’ve heard the old bon mot, imagine a world without hypothetical situations. … Continue reading