Category: Theological issues
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Rick Warren – Answering Questions about Purpose Driven Life
Since it’s first publishing, two things have been true of Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life. First, it became a best-seller, one of the top selling books of all time, selling over 30 million copies. Second, it became a lighting rod for critics who wanted to shoot it down either because it was theologically…
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Limited-Unlimited Atonement
On Sunday our text in Ephesians took us into areas of theology that can be controversial. Words like “chosen”, “election”, and “predestination” can be a lightning rod, leaving Christian people in a heated argument. I’ve even had people ask me in a bit of a combative tone of voice, “You don’t believe in that predestination…
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The Bible is About Jesus
The current series is taking a look at the big story of the Bible from 30,000 feet, and we are finding that the entire Bible is pointing us to Jesus, who is the hero of every story and the rescuer God sends to deliver us from our slavery to sin, self, the world, and our…
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Books on the Atonement – Further Reading on the Cross of Christ
Finishing up our series on the cross in the Gospel of Mark in the morning. The atonement is the doctrine of the cross, or in other words it is answering the Biblical question, “What did Jesus accomplish on the cross.” No subject is more important or has more weight in the cosmos than the…
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Internships for the Eschaton
This quote is by Russell Moore from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on our life now as preparation for the end times. Great Quote. If the kingdom is what Jesus says it is, then that means what matters isn’t just what we neatly classify as spiritual. The natural world around us isn’t just a temporary environment.…