Before You Go: Readings for Your Weekend (August 14, 2015)

By Evan Knies Editor's Note: Each Friday we want to point you to some of the articles and happenings from around the web that caught our eye. If you haven't checked these out already, make sure you give them a glance over the weekend! Owen Strachan discusses the issues surrounding Hillsong and homosexuality. He also …

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Book Briefs: “Can These Bones Live?” by Bill Henard

By Evan Knies Bill Henard serves as senior pastor of Porter Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, in addition to his ministry as a professor of evangelism at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. At SBTS he teaches courses on church revitalization. He can be contacted for church consulting through his website, http://www.billhenard.com. …

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Walking Among the TULIPs: Reformed Theology in the Gospel of John (Part Two)

By Colton Corter Total Depravity (3) Are men sinners because they sin or do they sin because they are at their hearts, actual sinners? This question is answered in John 8:34-38. Jesus tells us that whoever practices sin is a slave to sin (v.34). This “practicing” is a consistent pattern of habitual sin, that which …

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Thanksgiving and Christian Living (Part Three): A Textual Study in Colossians

By David Brown In Part III, Paul gives thanks to God for including the Gentile believers into His Kingdom. Read Colossians 1:12-14. "One of the problems we have in religious life is the tendency to see ourselves as superior to those outside of the faith.This attitude of superiority often causes us to hesitate in reaching …

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