Merkle, Benjamin L. and Robert L. Plummer. Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2017. 176 pages. Softcover. ISBN: 9780801093203. $21.99 When I started seminary, I was eager to jump directly into the study of the Greek language. I anticipated that it would give me the secret […]
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[S]hall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? Ezra 9:14Â (ESV) The spiritual and emotional intimacy of marriage can be wonderful or dreadful, depending upon the partner.
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Children are unusually prone to fear. From fear of the dark to night terrors; from separation anxiety to monsters under the bed, our children fear many things. And this has been an unusually fearful year. Children have watched their parents don masks to guard against an invisible threat; open doors with elbows and wash hands
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Translated by J. I. Packer and O. R. Johnson Fleming H. Revell, 2004, pgs. 320. Summary: At the behest of the Pope and the Catholic party, Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) wrote a little book called Diatribe de Libero Arbitrio defending a semi-Pelagian to Pelagian view of the will (cf. Pelagius, Roman Commentary review) in 1524. According to Erasmus the fallen human
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18 When [the King] takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to
We tend to only hear about larger churches and pastors of larger churches. But we should not despise small churches. Actually they can be beautiful. A beautiful church There are two dominant pictures of the church in the NT. These are the picture of a church as a family, and a local church as the
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