Tag Archives: apologetics

New Study Tonight- Romans

Tonight we begin our look at the monumental, towering book of Romans. All are welcome to our home at 7 est, or you may join us for dinner at 6:15. We will also stream the study at Facebook, RC-Lisa Sproul. … Continue reading

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Why are we not more grateful?

When Paul seeks to communicate in the book of Romans the universal reality of sin he notes two universal sins of the unredeemed. First, they do not acknowledge God as God. Second, neither are they grateful. While we have been … Continue reading

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Identifying I.D.

The culture wars are heating up again. Such, I suppose, ought not to surprise me. Evangelical professor of sociology James Davidson Hunter published his book Culture Wars in 1992. Therein he argued that the real dividing line in modern culture … Continue reading

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Nothing New Under the Sun

It’s Groundhog Day again. For some today elicits memories of waiting to hear the long-term forecast delivered by a rodent in central Pennsylvania. For others it brings back memories of the Sisyphus-ian hardship of Bill Murray, reliving the day over … Continue reading

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A Wonderful Life?

It’s a question that has been asked for millenia, even making multiple appearances in the Bible itself. What if, or in statement form, I wish, I had never been born? Capra’s account of the life and impact of the fictional … Continue reading

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What does it mean to be “slow to speak?”

James in his epistle gives us this command, “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (1:19). Perhaps … Continue reading

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Sacred Marriage, Forgetting; Happy Stoic New Year

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Plowing in Hope

The kingdom of God is at war. The promise from the beginning was that the seed of the woman, our King, would come and crush the head of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). Jesus’ first step out of the tomb at … Continue reading

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The Scandal of the Gospel

All of us, both within and without the church, face the temptation of being legalists when dealing with others’ sins against us, and antinomians when dealing with our sins against others. We want those we have perceived to have wronged … Continue reading

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What is wrong with anonymous social media accounts?

To grasp what is wrong with them we first must ask what the benefit is. That is, why would a person want to have an anonymous account? I can think of two reasons, though of course there may be more. … Continue reading

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