Science and Scripture, Dr. Jerry Nelson, www.soundliving.org Most Bible students make a distinction between “general” revelation (a knowledge of God found in what he has created) and “special” revelation (a knowledge of God found supremely in his Son and recorded in Scripture). R.C. Sproul makes an important distinction between the true knowledge of God revealed in […]
The Ten Commandments Enduring Elements of Public Worship (part 3) In the past few weeks I have prefaced articles about the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer with this reminder: Thomas Aquinas said we must know: What to believe (The Apostles’ Creed) What to pray for (The Lord’s Prayer) How to live (The Ten Commandments) […]
What happened to the public reading of God’s Word? A visit to many “evangelical” churches will confirm how few give serious attention to this biblically mandated part of corporate worship. Maybe some would suggest that in a highly literate culture where most have access to printed Bibles, public reading of the Scriptures is not as […]
Bible and Theology Audit Over the next few weeks we will provide questions from an audit originally prepared by the Ligonier Study Center. There will be Old Testament questions, New Testament questions and theology questions. The purpose of this closed-Bible exam is to give you an idea of the breadth and depth of your knowledge […]
Bible and Theology Audit Over the next few weeks we will provide questions from an audit originally prepared by the Ligonier Study Center. There will be Old Testament questions, New Testament questions and theology questions. The purpose of this closed-Bible exam is to give you an idea of the breadth and depth of your knowledge of […]
Bible and Theology Audit Over the next few weeks we will provide questions from an audit originally prepared by the Ligonier Study Center. There will be Old Testament questions, New Testament questions and theology questions. The purpose of this closed-Bible exam is to give you an idea of the breadth and depth of your knowledge of […]
“Justice Applied” Good Friday April 18,2014 Dr. Jerry Nelson I am about to write three statements that I intend to be unnerving, unsettling, hopefully even shocking. Can you imagine inviting Mother Theresa to go to a pornographic movie with you? Can you imagine forcing a woman who had recently and sadly miscarried to assist in […]
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Science and Scripture, Dr. Jerry Nelson, www.soundliving.org Most Bible students make a distinction between “general” revelation (a knowledge of God found in what he has created) and “special” revelation (a knowledge of God found supremely in his Son and recorded in Scripture). R.C. Sproul makes an important distinction between the true knowledge of God revealed in […]
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How can God have anything to do with the likes of me (or you)? Do you know yourself so well you sometimes doubt your relationship with God? Is assurance of our relationship with God possible? In Zechariah 3 we read: “…Joshua the high priest (was) standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan (was) […]
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“The basis of God’s forgiveness of me is the substitutionary death of Jesus. The basis of my forgiveness of my brother who sins against me is that same substitutionary death of Jesus. Who am I to suggest that the death of Jesus is insufficient to pay for my brother’s sin against sinful me, when at […]
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I am a pragmatist and thus cremation of the dead has seemed to me to be the sensible way to avoid the cost and sometimes macabre aspects of funerals. My mother, though well-schooled in the reality of decay and the theology of resurrection, said she wanted to be buried, not cremated, because she wanted Jesus […]
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