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The Emerging Church, Willow Creek, and confusing patterns

This week evidently Willow Creek had a conference that invited Brian McClaren to be a part.  Willow Creek recently stated that they wanted to move toward a better discipleship model and from the press report from the conference they continue to see the need for that.  Unfortunately it looks like their doctrinal stance is still unclear [...]

Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

i was going through this in devotions this morning.  What does it mean?  Context helps us here:
In Deuteronomy 14 the broad context is what does it mean to take the Lord’s name (be a part of His people) and not do that in vain.  Both in Deuteronomy 14 and Exo. 23 the immediate context is [...]

Another School Year…Another Time to Praise God

We’re wrapping another school year this month and it’s a good time to review what God has done this year. It’s been exciting as a pastor to see things happening “behind the scenes” that only God can do.  
God has been working in our church with people trusting in Christ including children, adults, internationals and [...]

Deuteronomy and the OT

It’s amazing how Deuteronomy affects the rest of the Old Testament. 
Deuteronomy 11:22-25
For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and [...]

Conferences

This week we have two conferences going on.  The first is more famous: Together for the Gospel 2008 in Louisville, KY.  You can get audio here.  The one by Thabiti Anyabwile looks particularly good as well as John Piper’s.

The second is less famous but was still a blessing.  The annual Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches [...]

Debate on New Testament texts

Here’s a quote from a report of the debate between Daniel Wallace and Bart Ehrman (author of Misquoting Jesus) I found interesting:
Perhaps the most provocative part of Wallace’s lecture was his comparison of what Ehrman claimed was true about New Testament transmission with the transmission of sacred texts in another religion: Islam. Wallace gave three [...]

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