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November 14, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics. Hopefully a very brief introduction to these important Christian texts will motivate today’s believers, as St. Augustine was called to in his dramatic conversion to Christianity, to “take up and read” (Latin: Tolle lege) these classic books.
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Reading
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Books
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Christian Literature
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Book Reviews
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November 7, 2017
I had a thoughtful student respectfully take issue with me over the topic of whether sound or instrumental music (music without lyrics) could be classified as moral. Here are his comments:
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Critical Thinking
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Life of the Mind
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Logic
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Christian Life
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October 31, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in theology, philosophy, and apologetics. My hope is that these brief introductions to important Christian texts will motivate today’s believers to, as St. Augustine put it, “take up and read” (Latin: Tolle lege) these classic books.
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People of Faith
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People
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Christian Literature
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Reading
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Famous Christians
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Books
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Book Reviews
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October 24, 2017
Several years ago I received an email from a pastor who was going through some difficult times. He had battled a life-threatening illness, experienced troubling problems at his church, and yet worst of all, his daughter had begun having serious doubts about the truth of the Christian faith.
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Faith
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Good Questions
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God's Existence
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God
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Christian Life
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October 17, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics.
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Books
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Reading
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Book Reviews
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Christian Literature
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October 10, 2017
Jesus’s resurrection is at the very heart of historic Christianity. In fact, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is both a central doctrinal belief of the faith and the primary evidence for the truth of the religion itself. Given the importance of Easter for Christians, it is appropriate for us to consider 12 evidences for the resurrection of Jesus.
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October 3, 2017
Over the course of more than 30 years of work in the field of Christian apologetics, there have been a number of times that I felt drained and in definite need of spiritual renewal. Sometimes in ministry you are so busy trying to help others that you fail to give appropriate attention to your own needs.
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September 26, 2017
A very brief introduction to these important Christian texts will motivate today’s believers, as St. Augustine was called to in his dramatic conversion to Christianity, to “take up and read” (Latin: Tolle lege) these classic books.
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September 19, 2017
Many people viewfaith and reason as being at odds with one another. For example, some differentiate faith from reason by asserting that faith merely involves hoping something is true, whereas reason involves affirming something to be true based upon justifying evidence.
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September 12, 2017
This week’s book, Luther’s Small Catechism, was written by the man known as the father of the Protestant Reformation. More than merely a Lutheran text, however, Martin Luther’s brief theological work reflects a timeless—and in many ways a universal—classic of historic Christian education.
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September 5, 2017
This week’s book, Luther’s Small Catechism, was written by the man known as the father of the Protestant Reformation. More than merely a Lutheran text, however, Martin Luther’s brief theological work reflects a timeless—and in many ways a universal—classic of historic Christian education.
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August 29, 2017
Is the Christian faith a reasonable religion?
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August 22, 2017
Know the Truth: A Handbook of Christian Belief, is by Christian theologian Bruce Milne and is one of the finest handbooks available on the study of Christian doctrine.
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August 15, 2017
In logic, an “argument” is not a spat or a fight that you might have with your spouse or with a sibling.
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August 8, 2017
This week’s book, Handbook of Basic Bible Texts, is by Christian theologian John Jefferson Davis and is the most helpful work I’ve used in my research and study of Scripture and theology.
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August 1, 2017
The study of logic doesn’t actually teach a person to think—people do that intuitively and instinctively. Rather, instruction in logic teaches a person to think in an ordered and, thus, careful manner.
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