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Read MoreWhy Are We Striving To Make Abortion Unthinkable? :: abortion, guest :: A Reformed, Christian Blog
Great post during the right to life week: Why Are We Striving To Make Abortion Unthinkable? :: abortion, guest :: A Reformed, Christian Blog.
Read MoreWhat is the Gospel?
Greg Gilbert looks carefully at how we define the gospel: part 1, part 2, part 3. I think it’s very helpful. Here’s a summary: I think we can get at an answer to all those questions by realizing that the Gospel of the Cross (that is, the narrow sense of “gospel”) is not just any part of the Gospel of the Kingdom (that is, the broad sense of “gospel”).* Rather, the gospel of the cross is the gateway, the fountainhead, even the seed, so to speak, of the gospel of the kingdom. Read the whole NT, and you quickly realize that its univocal message is that a person cannot get...
Read MoreBetween Two Worlds: Mahaney: Don't Waste Your Humor
Between Two Worlds: Mahaney: Don’t Waste Your Humor. Having listened to parts of this message, it’s well worth listening to.
Read MoreCelebrate!
God wants us to show our love by rejoicing in Him. Deuteronomy 12:1-19 shows God’s priority on this. In the New Testament, the temple becomes the church (not the location but the people). Our rejoicing becomes not just for God’s blessing on what we attempt but in all things. Notice: John 4:24; 1 Cor. 6:18-20; 1 Cor. 10:31; 1 Thess. 5:16-18; Rom 8:28; James 1:2 Eph 2:20; 1 Peter 4:10-11; 2 John 4ff.; Matt...
Read MoreMore info on boiling a kid in his mother's milk
Taken from Dr. Constable’s notes on Deuteronomy: “The ceremonial custom of boiling a kid in its mother’s milk is known from the ancient Canaanite tablets found at Ugarit [i.e., the Ras Shamra Tablets]. Such a rite was superstitiously observed by the Canaanites, hoping that through magical acts they could increase fertility and productivity (14:21; Ex. 23:19; 34:26).” 161 “. . . various Canaanite cults regularly engaged in the practices of seething a kid in its mother’s milk as a fertility rite of sympathetic magic intended to coerce the deity...
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