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A need for clarity on singleness and sex
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As I understand it, the ordination standards for the United Methodist
Church now include the following paragraph: 2. For the sake of the mission
of Jesus C...
8 hours ago
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Nabeel Qureshi: the Quran inspires radical Muslims to commit Islamic
terrorism
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Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, a former Muslim, explains which verses of the Qu’ran
are linked to Islamic terrorism in a USA Today editorial. Excerpt: As a
Muslim gro...
9 hours ago
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Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear
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[image: Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear]
God kept Pharaoh upright and pummeled him until he and his army drowned as
a stone, why? Why do we need to rea...
13 hours ago
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The Spirit of Union and Love
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The Spirit is strong in you. Grace has brought you here.
The post The Spirit of Union and Love appeared first on Seedbed.
18 hours ago
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New People’s Peace Talks – Luke 10:3-11
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We’ve uploaded a new Peace Talks podcast: a Peaceful Thoughts session on
Luke 10:3-11. What does it actually mean to offer the blessing, “Peace to
this hou...
1 day ago
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OT Anthropology. The Constituent Elements of Man. DRLE Pt.1
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Death, Resurrection and Life Everlasting – DRLE Pt.1 A. Contemporary
Criticism Against Biblical Dualistic Anthropology Our understanding of
death and after...
1 day ago
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Mark K. Olson, “Luther & Wesley on Justification by Faith Alone”
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Abstract: When John Wesley became an evangelical Christian in 1738, his new
understanding of justification by faith alone was directly influenced by
Mart...
1 day ago
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The Eucharist/Lord’s Supper - Introduction
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I am currently engaged in an extensive study of the Eucharist and liturgy.
I began this study a month ago after a number of comments were posted in
two o...
3 days ago
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A different sort of missional theology from Paul’s address to the “men of
Athens” in Acts 17
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A different sort of missional theology from Paul’s address to the “men of
Athens” in Acts 17
Andrew Perriman Sun, 05/12/2024 - 22:43
Paul is in Athens, w...
6 days ago
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Cara Bermain Poker dengan Efektif dan Strategis: Panduan Lengkap untuk
Pemula
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Bermain poker bukanlah hal yang sulit. Sebenarnya, siapa pun bisa belajar
cara bermain poker, bahkan bagi pemula sekalipun. Meskipun poker adalah
permainan...
1 week ago
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Does it Matter Whether Seminary Education is In-Person or Online?
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Ever since I became the president of the Charlotte campus of Reformed
Theological Seminary (RTS)—now more than a decade ago—I’ve been committed
to a basi...
1 week ago
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A Short Discussion of Spiritual Abuse
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I made a two-minute video discussing spiritual abuse. If you’re interested,
you can sign up for my one day workshop on spiritual abuse (May 25, 2024). ?
...
1 week ago
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Week in Review (May 4, 2024)
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Just a quick pulse through my week. In the last couple weeks, I've finished
writing a biology course, a writing course focusing on persuasion, and a
theo...
1 week ago
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Global churches, planetary assembling
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By Filipe Maia
Mark Twain receives credit for having said that “history does not re- peat
itself; it rhymes.” The historical development of The United Me...
2 weeks ago
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Why Did God Wait Until the Roman Empire to Fully Reveal Himself? (podcast)
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Accommodations and Revelations. Episode 1188 __ __ __
https://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_1188.mp3
The post Why Did God Wait Until the Roman E...
2 weeks ago
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The Gospel is NOT about YOU!
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Many times when Chiristians think about the Gospel they think about the
good news about salvation from sin, death and hell. Thought this is
certainly an im...
1 month ago
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Changes Here at My Blog
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The time has come for me to move on from the blogger platform. I have been
blogging here since December of 2005, and it has been a great run!
I am not go...
1 month ago
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The Punishment that Brought Us Peace: A Good Friday Sermon
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Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, March 29, 2024. Text:
Isaiah 53 Watch the video of the service on Wesley Chapel’s Youtube Channel
1 month ago
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Confession Is Good for the Soul
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*"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us
our...
1 month ago
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What the church has believed, taught and confessed
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Every Sunday throughout much of the church, you will hear confessions from
the Apostles’ Creed or Nicene Creed being confessed. This is one of the
standa...
2 months ago
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Q & A on The Calvinist Claim That Salvation Conditioned on Faith
Necessarily Implies Some Sort of Merited Contribution to Salvation
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Here is the question as originally posed along with a break down
interaction below: Full Question: “So, let me reason this way, If
prevenient grace is give...
3 months ago
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Islamic Jihad by M A Khan Multiple Language
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*‘Islamic Jihad’ by M A Khan available PDF for free download in Multiple
Language. Thanks to FaithFreedom*
English
Hindi
Bangla
Tamil
Malaya...
7 months ago
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Growth into Great Things (Augustine)
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There’s an Augustine quote, widely available on all of the “Swell
Quotations” websites, that just seems too good to be true. Here it is:
“Really great th...
8 months ago
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What Matters Most Podcast Sister Damien Marie Savino
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Please listen to this episode of What Matters Most with Sister Damien
Marie Savino of Aquinas College. We have a conversation about creation and
nature,...
1 year ago
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An Exchange on "A Critique of Limited Atonement" by David Allen in
Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique
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Several weeks ago, I posted a mini-review of Calvinism: A Biblical and
Theological Critique on my Facebook feed. I gave it favorable remarks
specifically h...
1 year ago
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Common enemy: a hollow slogan for solidarity in Myanmar
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...how to divide power between the NUG and the ethnic states, and protect
sub-minorities within minority states?
The post Common enemy: a hollow slogan f...
1 year ago
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Monday quote
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The vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008). “Live Not by Lies.” 1974.
1 year ago
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How Convenient! Part 2: Zayd, Saowda & Rayhana
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Muhammad's quest to marry Zaynab involved multiple prophecies and touched
many lives. Here we learn about his special relationship with Zayd, his
not-so-...
1 year ago
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Is Provisionism Semipelagian? Part 2: Centering
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At the end of my last post, I concluded that while Provisionism is
certainly closer to Semi-pelagianism than Arminianism is, there are certain
factors th...
1 year ago
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A final farewell
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This site has not be maintained since 2013 but has been kept intact for
archival purposes. MethodistThinker.com will shut down permanently on Jan.
16, 2021.
3 years ago
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Paul didn’t teach unconditional election. Here’s why.
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God’s act of election shows up multiple times in 1 & 2 Thessalonians.
Calvinist interpreters tend to read these passages as evidence for their
doctrine of ...
4 years ago
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In memorandum
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As many of you now know, my father Larry Hurtado has passed away on the
25th of November 2019. I will keep his blog online as it is a testament to
his work...
4 years ago
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Consistent, Conservative, Orthodox, Evangelical, Protestant, Christocentric
Under the heading of this personal space I have six adjectives identifying
the...
4 years ago
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Richardson Hosts Free Kindle Book Giveaway at Amazon from April 18th-22nd
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It is a blessing to be able to return to The Center for Theological Studies
(CTS) to make yet another announcement.
I have partnered with Amazon to offe...
5 years ago
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Finishing Well
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*The Lord of the Rings* trilogy tells the tale of nine companions who set
off for Mordor with the goal of destroying the Dark Lord Sauron’s ring.
Frodo, th...
5 years ago
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A Response to “5 Myths About Calvinism”
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Calvinistic scholar, Dr. Greg Forester, just released an article titled
“Five Myths about Calvinism” through Crossway and I would like to provide a
critiqu...
5 years ago
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Richard Bauckham on Matthew’s Use of Luke
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Over at Alan Garrow’s blog, he has a statement from Richard Bauckham on how
he changed his mind about the Synoptic Problem and came to believe that
Matthew...
5 years ago
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Angels– Part Eight
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Because the NT has less to say about angels than the OT and
intertestamental Jewish literature, Heiser’s treatment of the subject is
briefer (pp. 116-62), ...
5 years ago
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Again with “Good God” and Calvinism
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Again with “Good God” and Calvinism Throughout the years of this blog (and
before and outside of it) I have wrestled with people objecting most
strenuously...
5 years ago
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Hymn of the day
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Praise the Lord who reigns above And keeps His court below; Praise the holy
God of love And all His greatness show; Praise Him for His noble deeds;
Praise ...
6 years ago
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Interview with Andrew Loke on Christology
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‘Christology’ is a subject widely discussed by academic historians and
Christian theologians around the world. In Malaysia, it has recently gained
tractio...
6 years ago
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Book Review: Grace for All
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John D. Wagner assembled inputs from a wide ranges of authors to put
together Grace for All: The Arminian Dynamics of Salvation. The book
starts off wit...
8 years ago
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Selling Fetal Body Parts is NOT the Primary Moral Issue
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The post Selling Fetal Body Parts is NOT the Primary Moral Issue appeared
first on Parchment and Pen Blog.
8 years ago
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my last Patheos post…
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Hi everyone, Here is the link to today’s post at my new website. It’s about
following Jesus. And speaking of following, this is my last post here
at Patheo...
8 years ago
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James White comments on a sermon by James McCarthy, author of "John Calvin
Goes to Berkeley"
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James McCarthy: “…frankly, God doesn’t love you strictly because of
yourself; He loves you because of His Son. Didn’t the Lord Jesus teach
that...what di...
9 years ago
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Prophets and Pragmatism
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What if we judged the prophets of the Bible based on their results? Most
would be considered miserable failures. The Prophets The general story goes
like t...
11 years ago
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