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I was watching a movie set in WWII a while back. An American soldier, after arriving in Berlin broke into a German home, unknowing to him, of a Nazi officer who was off serving in the war. The GI picked up off a nearby table a photograph of the Nazi officer in his uniform. The [...]

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Every good book describing a healthy church covers at least Acts 2:42-47 and this one is no different.
Here in Chapter 1 John Stott covers what he calls the essential marks of a living church hence the title Essentials.
On the outset he describes a 3 – fold commitment.

We are committed to the church
We are committed to [...]

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Every now and again I find a site that is worth sharing.
This site is headed up by Tony Garland Th.M, Th.D. and features university/seminary level information from himself and others for self-study.
The neat thing about this site is the in depth nature of the tools and resources. The free 2 Volume commentary on Revelation, lessons [...]

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I saw this on the news this morning – the oldest known compiled Bible over 1600 years old. For you scholarly types this is a pretty cool website with the image of the text with translation.
The key reminder is to remember that there are older fragments and manuscripts that well pre-date the Codex-Sinaiticus. The liberal [...]

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I drafted a series for the new believers we had that would explain the foundations of the faith. These outlines became core cirriculum in our discipleship groups. Recently I was contacted for the electronic copy of those outlines and rolled them up into a single pdf which is free for downloading here
http://faithandinches.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bbd_outline_book.pdf
They are written from [...]

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There is a lot of confusion about Biblical Contemplation. Some are tossing the baby out with the bath water.
This teaching, of mine, is from taken from Psalm 119:9-16 and was given on a Sunday morning in early 2007 after I learned about a movement known as the Emergent Church and the concern we were heading [...]

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I know most Christians are aware of Spiritual Warfare, but the disconnect is really evident though when we get into talking about the realities of demonism, witchcraft or simply the active efforts and manifestations of all that opposes the Kingdom of God if we really want to call it what it ultimately is. It is [...]

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With some of my recent involvement in another blog discussion around doctrine and theology, I thought this would be a good time for me to post a handout from a doctrine course I wrote for new believers some years ago. I apologize for the format the WP editor has some limitations and I’m too lazy [...]

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