The pastor as a hearer The words of James in the first chapter of his letter and his counsel to hearers are familiar indeed: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at …
Introduction A brief word of caution to our understandable desire for life to get back on track after the COVID-19 pandemic: Has the “new normal” we all talked about quickly become something from which we want to wake up entirely? Weren’t there problems with the “old normal?” The weaknesses in the economy and business world, …
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13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (ESV) In his famous book of poems, Lays of Ancient Rome, the English author Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) recorded the legend of Horatius. Faced with an Etruscan army about to destroy Rome, Horatius, and his …
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series featuring outstanding excerpts from student papers at the BibleMesh Institute, which offers affordable online training for local churches, schools, and ministries. The author’s name has been withheld for privacy and security purposes. He is a missionary in Northeast Asia. Sometimes in life the Lord calls us …
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. Certain doctrines of Reformed theology, and their associated sub-doctrines, are brought into the limelight more than others. For example, there is a rich endowment of Protestant works on the doctrine of justification.[1] One cannot say the same, however, of the sub-doctrine …
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Who or what is in the womb of a pregnant mother? Answers to that question have ranged historically from a fully-formed miniature human being—called a homunculus—to a blob of tissue. A 2002 book shows us how twenty-first-century medical imaging technology has given us a clear window to the womb. Photographer Alexander Tsiaras and author Barry Werth …