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Garrett DeWeese and J.P. Moreland: Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

Garrett DeWeese and J.P. Moreland: Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

  Garrett J. DeWeese and J.P. Moreland, Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult: A Beginner’s Guide to Life’s Big Questions (InterVarsity Press, 2005), 170 pages. Over the last two centuries the confidence of Christians in the reasonableness and credibility of their faith has met significant challenges from a number of quarters. With the almost wholesale acceptance of a naturalistic account of …

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N.T. Wright: Judas and the Gospel of Jesus

N.T. Wright: Judas and the Gospel of Jesus

  Nicholas Thomas Wright, Judas and the Gospel of Jesus: Have We Missed the Truth About Christianity? (Baker, 2006), 156 pages. Wright is a lucid writer, with the gift of being able to express himself at both a popular and academic level. This book adopts the popular genre. Wright does not dismiss the Gospel of Judas. He is happy to …

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Summer 2014: Other Significant Articles

Summer 2014: Other Significant Articles

  Fred Sanders, “John Wesley on Experiencing the Trinity” Seedbed (February 10, 2014).   J. Lee Grady, “Don’t Let Super-Spiritual People Hurt Your Church” CharismaNews (July 24, 2014). Kenneth J. Archer says, “I think this is fairly accurate and worth reading.”   Matthew Schmitz, “How I Evolved on Gay Marriage: On Life’s Tightly Woven Meanings” First Things (August 2014). William …

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Arturo Azurdia: Spirit Empowered Preaching

Arturo Azurdia: Spirit Empowered Preaching

  Arturo G. Azurdia III, Spirit Empowered Preaching: Involving the Holy Spirit in your Ministry (Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 1998), 192 pages. Arturo Azurdia III graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary, California, in 1998 with a Doctor of Ministry in Preaching degree. Azurdia’s book was a requirement for his graduation. (Westminster does not usually allow students to study and write …

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Baptism in the Spirit: Is it Normal to Receive At or After Conversion?

Baptism in the Spirit: Is it Normal to Receive At or After Conversion?

  Pastor Michael Peters looks at the Baptism with the Spirit in light of the whole salvation experience.   Editorial Introduction This article is a chapter from Michael Peter’s book In Defense of Charismatics. In Defense was written as a response to John MacArthur’s book Charismatic Chaos and as a defense of charismatic beliefs and teachings. Peters wrote in the …

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Alister McGrath: Christian Theology

Alister McGrath: Christian Theology

  Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction,third edition (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2001), 616 pages. Alister E. McGrath, The Christian Theology Reader,second edition (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2001), 707 pages. Alister McGrath, the Anglican Evangelical scholar who is based in Oxford University, is a prodigious author with an encyclopedic mind. He is well placed, therefore, to produce these volumes …

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Allegiance, Truth and Power: Three crucial dimensions for Christian living

Allegiance, Truth and Power: Three crucial dimensions for Christian living

  How do experiential truth and the bondage-breaking power of the Spirit support every believer to have a right relationship with God?   Given the fact that the Bible’s primary concern is our relationship to God, a relationship that starts with commitment or allegiance to Him, where are the contextualization studies dealing with relationship? What are the culturally appropriate varieties …

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Is the Reformation Over?

Is the Reformation Over?

  Mark A. Noll and Carolyn Nystrom, Is the Reformation Over?: An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (Baker Academic, 2005), 272 pages, ISBN 0801027977. “Is the Reformation Over?” This is the question raised in a recent book by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom. In this work, the authors do not attempt a “final” or “universal” assessment of Roman Catholicism” …

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Solving a Language Puzzle: Between England and Africa

Solving a Language Puzzle: Between England and Africa

  Missionary Jim Harries presents a cogent argument for using indigenous language.   Words originating in English are often written and even pronounced in a different way than in English when in a different language. This always brings a challenge when using a foreign language. Let me give some examples to illustrate this. The biblical name Joseph is in Kiswahili …

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Discussing the Emotionally Destructive Marriage

Discussing the Emotionally Destructive Marriage

  There is no perfect marriage, we all stumble and face conflict. But how do we deal with a marriage that has become emotionally destructive? In the US today, at least one in four Christian women are in an emotionally destructive marriage. And the church, which should be the place where they find hope and support, is often not a …

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