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
If you don’t believe that humility is an issue within the church in the United States, simply troll through some blogs or message boards. Harsh and nasty words abound, even in defense of good theology. Snarkiness can be the rule of the day. It is almost as if because we believe ourselves to be right
Pastor Tim Keller has been a fairly prolific author over the last number of years, contributing some very solid and readable books to the body of work being put out by evangelical Christians. In his newest book, Keller tackles the bugaboo of many Christians- their prayer life. It is a pretty well-known that Christians in
