Author: rey
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Early Church On Jesus’ Deity
Right up front, some of these guys are making a good point. To read the text through the lens of later theological developments winds up ignoring what the text is actually saying. So in some sense, they are (at least … Continue reading →
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Jesus, God and the Gospel of Men
The idea reads something like this: obviously, the Church at Nicaea believed Jesus was the Son of God in terms of deity, but the authors of the Bible didn’t think in that category. They believed Jesus to be Son of … Continue reading →
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Prayer Mondays: Puritan Prayer 01
Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This is a Puritan prayer from The Valley of … Continue reading →
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Philosophy Fridays Quotable: Alvin Plantinga, Evolution, and Open-Mindedness
Consider The Grand Evolutionary Myth (GEM). According to this story, organic life somehow arose from nonliving matter by way of purely natural means and by virtue of the workings of the fundamental regularities of physics and chemistry. Once life began, … Continue reading →
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A Tiny Portion of the Legacy of David Reid
Back on January 31, 2012, 74 Year old David Reid went home to the Lord because of a skiing accident. For most people who read this site, that name doesn’t mean anything. In all honesty, I didn’t know David Reid … Continue reading →
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Quotables: Lewis On Worship
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. Technorati Tags: cs lewis
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How To Save Money Right Now
Recently at a sort-of tech-related Christian meta-blog called Digital Sojourner, I wrote a series of articles on the perfect PC Bible. In one of the posts I mentioned that you can’t just up and buy a laptop: you need to … Continue reading →
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Prayer Mondays: Lenten Prayer
Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This is a Lenten prayer. O God, who have … Continue reading →
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Quotables: Early Church on Sex and Marriage
Modern readers may imagine that until recently pastors never dared to provide sex and marriage counseling. Not so. These selections from the earliest period of the Christian pastoral tradition (pre-Nicene, before 325 a.d.), will provide glimpses of the sort of … Continue reading →