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War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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on the role of the Creeds
Council of Nicea (325)/Creed of Nicea 
The first ecumenical council, convened by the emporor Constantine and attended by 318 bishops....
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Extra-Curricular Activities 05/26/12
Peter Leithart - Too catholic to be Catholic
Scot McKnight - Youth Trips: Helping that Hurts?
Justin Taylor – D.A. Carson, What’s Up with Me...
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A Theology of Luke and Acts - A Pastoral Review
Darrell Bock’s highly anticipated A Theology of Luke and Acts isn’t in stores (yet!), but a few early review copies have gone out and ...
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Wednesday Giveaway - An A-to-Z Guide to Biblical Prophecy and the End Times
What is the Abomination of Desolation? 
How have different Christians understood the Millennium? 
Who or what do the beasts in ...
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Loving God, Others, and Ourselves (Monday with Mounce 145)
I received two questions a while back and I thought I would answer them.
The first was that the comment that there is no imperative in the G...
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Extra-Curricular Activities 05/19/12
Justin Taylor - Alan Jacobs on How to Read a Book 
Reformation 21 - An Interview with Dr. Packer 
Kevin DeYoung - Inerrancy Mean...
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Wednesday Giveaway - "Grasping God's Word" 3rd Edition
Scott Duvall and Daniel Hays’ classic work on hermeneutics, Grasping God’s Word, is now being released in a revised third edition, and this ...
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Longman and Dillard on the book of Samuel in the Septuagint and Masoretic Text
How different is the book of Samuel in the Septuagint compared to the Masoretic Text? Turns out, they are quite different indeed – and Louis...
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Spiritual “Gifts” or “Things” - 1 Cor 12:1 (Monday with Mounce 144)
Usually adjectives used substantivally (i.e., as nouns) are pretty easy to figure out. Between the meaning of the adjective and the context ...
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Extra-Curricular Activities 05/12/12
Michael Bird - Book Notice: Journeys of Faith 
Scot McKnight - Bonhoeffer on Telling the Truth
James K.A. Smith - An Engagement with &...
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The Ruthless Monk reviews "Think Christianly"
Recently Leslie Keeney shared a very thoughtful review of Jonathan Morrow's Think Christianly at her blog, The Ruthles...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Bringing Jesus to the Desert
Through the third to sixth centuries – as Christianity struggled with its new role as a legal (and soon official) religion, and the mix of o...
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Why do Evangelicals Swim the Tiber?
Recently Wheaton College hosted a discussion about Evangelicals converting to Roman Catholicism. The sessions featured authors of Jour...
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“Law” or “the Law” - Rom 6:15 (Monday with Mounce 143)
We all know that Greek uses ὁ differently than English uses “the.” In fact, I am hesitant to even talk about the Greek definite article, sin...
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Extra-Curricular Activities 05/05/12
15 Spectacular European Libraries (or, my dream vacation)
Michael Bird - Evangelical Confessionalism and Academic Freedom
Mariam Kamell Appo...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Hebrew for the Rest of Us
Last week we gave away Greek for the Rest of Us, and this week you have a chance to win the companion volume, Hebrew for the Rest of Us by L...
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