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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Grace Is Profoundly Existential, Beginning With the Church
“Grace is a profoundly existential matter” (157).
That’s the verdict in Carl Trueman’s new book Grace Alone, a tour de force through the bib...
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McKnight Outlines Ancient & Pauline Views of Sexuality, Offers a Way Forward— An Excerpt from "A Fellowship of Differents"
Scot McKnight has done it again.
He did it with Bible study and hermeneutics in The Blue Parakeet; discipleship in One Life; and personal e...
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What's The Church's Biggest Challenge? A Fellowship of "Differents"
“Be ye separate.” (2 Cor 6:17, KJV)
That text served as the foundation to the first sermon Scot McKnight preached as a teenager. It also ser...
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Extracurricular Activities 10.25.14—J.I. Packer's Conversion, A Softer Calvinism, & The Parish's Death
Justin Taylor Reflects on J. I. Packer's Conversion — 70 Years Ago
On Sunday, October 22, 1944—seventy years ago today—it is doubtful that a...
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Wednesday Giveaway - Journeys of Faith
I’m quite excited to have the chance to give away a new release this week, Journeys of Faith.
Journeys of Faith tells the stories of Evangel...
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Here we go again (Monday With Mounce 102)
I heard some really discouraging and sobering news the other day, and I wanted to take a break from Greek instruction to share ...
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What is a Christian?
Early in One.Life Scot McKnight shares some of his own journey.
Early in his life he learned that a Christian was someone who had experie...
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Half the Church - Are we missing out on the gifts of women?
In your typical evangelical Church this past Sunday more than half of those present were women, and not just because of the Super Bowl.
Eac...
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Christianity Today features the Lausanne Congress
 
John Kennedy at Christianity Today has written a fascinating article about the organizing of Cape Town 2010
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Darrell Bock: Hopes for Cape Town 2010
Lausanne-Capetown 2010. October 15-26, 2010
It does not happen very often. This is the third time. The others were in 1974 (Lausanne) and ...
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Internet Campuses and Virtual Community - Sound Ecclesiology?
There has been a bit of talk regarding internet campuses, virtual community and such from on different blogs. Here are some of the conversa...
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FREE book giveaway: SimChurch
Attend a service online, get a free book
Attend a service online, get a free book
SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World by Douglas Estes (PhD, University of Nottingham, UK) explores the idea: The meeting place ...
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Virtual Community as Real Community: A respone to Shane Hipps by Douglas Estes
Last month on the Out of Ur blog, Shane Hipps shared in an impromptu interview at NPC what he believes to be severe problems with labeling o...
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