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The Peace that Starts the War
Vol. 15, No. 4 • Jul/Aug 2006
“God likes to forgive, I like to sin: what a great relationship!” In that line W. Robert Godfrey nicely captures the often hidden assumption that Christ came merely to save us from sin’s guilt while leaving us under its slavery. Throughout church history, preaching and teaching have attempted to properly relate God’s saving work for […]
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Union with Christ
“God likes to forgive, I like to sin: what a great relationship!” In that line W. Robert Godfrey nicely captures the often hidden assumption that Christ came merely to save us from sin’s guilt while leaving us under its slavery. Throughout church history, preaching and teaching have attempted to properly relate God’s saving work for […]
Doubt as a Christian Virtue
Agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the skeptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else. – C. S. Lewis, “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” English professors find […]
Are We There Yet?
Introduction: What Changes? When a person becomes a Christian a strange thing happens-nothing changes! If they were struggling financially before their conversion, their financial woes are not instantly taken away. If they were previously divorced, the new believers do not awake to find themselves happily married. If they were living under an oppressive government, they […]
Ten Propositions on Faith and Salvation
“An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity” by Delbet Burkett
Delbert Burkett and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have conceived a well-constructed, thoughtful, and highly informative collegiate textbook introducing the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Burkett, no stranger to CUP imprints and the pages of New Testament Studies, as well as Novum Testamentum, is associate professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University. A […]
“Above All Earthly Pow’rs:Christ in a Postmodern World” by David F. Wells
David Wells’s latest book, Above All Earthly Pow’rs, is one that I found next to impossible to put down once I started reading it. This work truly is the culmination of his theological thought. Wells has published a book that describes the essence of postmodern thought as well as a remedy that enables the church […]
