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Do We Need to Understand the Old Testament to Interpret the New?

With every movement within American Christianity, there are strengths and weaknesses. With the recent emphasis on verse-by-verse expository preaching, the Bible has been faithfully declared in a way consistent with how it was written. This is a major strength of the expository preaching movement. If there is a weakness, it is that in some parts […]

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A Battle for Truth

Rosaria Butterfield has become well-known in evangelical circles for her amazing conversion story and current theological engagement with the LBGTQ+ worldview. Her contributions to the body of scholarship on gender and sexuality issues have been timely and clear. Her most recent book furthers the conversation by identifying specific lies that even many Christians are buying

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Another Book About Paul?A Review of 40 Questions About the Apostle Paul

Debates have raged for decades over the teachings of the apostle Paul. From John Piper and N.T Wright’s writing treatise and counter-treatise over the “New Perspective” tocomplementarians and egalitarians arguing over what Paul meant when he taught on gender roles, there has been no shortage of ink spilled. Paul has been used to justify the

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Well Done…Enter the Joy of the Lord: A Tribute on the Passing of Paul Byrd

I recently said “good-bye” to my dad until I see him again in glory. Now another formative figure in my life has entered heaven’s gates. I first met Mr. Byrd after my family moved to West Virginia from Alexandria, Virginia. My family was attending a Presbyterian church about an hour from our home, which made

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