It’s hard to go a day without hearing something about Critical Race Theory (CRT). From school board meetings to church leaders to seminaries, everyone is talking about whether or not CRT is being taught in their world. One of the craziest aspects of this whole debate is the apparent lack of ability for anyone to […]
R.C. Sproul was one of God’s gifts to the church. Stephen Nicols’ recent biography R.C.Sproul: A Life, goes into great detail on the life of Sproul, and the contributions he made to the life of the church. Nichols’ biography is well-written, and spends a large amount of time in delving into those forces that shaped
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A Christmas Carol is mandatory viewing for our family around Christmas time. We love its many iterations, from the Muppets to Jim Carrey to several of the live-action versions. There’s something about Dicken’s classic story that fits with Christmas. It fits because A Christmas Carol is what Christmas is truly about: redemption. Scrooge is a
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by Patrick Schreiner How does the theology of the Book of Acts tie together? Is it all about the advance of the Gospel from Jerusalem, to Samaria and Judea, and then to the world? In The Mission of the Triune God, Patrick Schreiner is going to make the case that the purpose of Acts is
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Don Sunukjian continues a nice little series on “Biblical Preaching for the Contemporary Church” with a little book on preaching Philippians (Weaver, 2014). The book is short (113 pages) and written at a very popular level (this fits within the goals of the series). I found the author’s insights into the various texts of Philippians
