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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 12): Israel's Judgment Explained (Ch 9b-10a)]]></title>
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	Following the Messiah discussion of the first 7 verses of chapter 9, God and Isaiah present four strophes explaining why Israel deserves judgment. The first of these, from verse 8 to 12, highlights self-reliance—the trust Israel placed in itself apart from God. Verse 8 tells us that the Lord sent a message. Originally, Hebrew was written with only consonants. The Masoretes inserted vowels and other notations for the sounding of the words. For example, Jehovah or Yahweh, the name for...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 11): The Dawning Light! (Ch 9a)]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	To understand Isaiah well, we must keep the flow of the book in mind. After the preface of the first five chapters, the book begins with God calling Isaiah to prophesy in chapter 6. In chapter 7 Isaiah begins his prophecy first with his son Shearjashub who’s name means “a remnant will return.” The prophecy is spoken to Judah’s king, Ahaz, who is concerned about the threatening advance of both Ephraim and Aram. Following the devastating attacks by both those nations (between verses 9...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 10): 1st Fulfillment of Immanuel Prophecy (Ch 8)]]></title>
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	We don’t know how long it is after chapter 7’s prophecy that the Lord instructs Isaiah in 8:1 to write a name on a parchment. But it can’t be long. The activity and statements of the first few verses of chapter 8 is similar to the beginning of the Immanuel prophecy in 7:14-16. Isaiah is told to write the name Mahershalalhashbaz on a parchment with an ordinary pen. Mahershalalhashbaz (or Maher for short) means “speeding to the spoil.” Two men, in verse 2, are called to witness this...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 09): Shear-jashub and Immanuel Prophecies (Ch 7)]]></title>
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	Chapter 7 begins telling us that Ahaz is on the throne. We have just left Isaiah’s call in chapter 6 that began with Uzziah’s death. However, 16 years transpire between Uzziah’s death, when his son Jotham ascends the throne, and Jotham’s death, when Ahaz begins his reign. The time lapse between call and prophecy does not need to worry us. What God has to tell us in this book simply begins 16 years after Isaiah’s call. The lapsed time is according to God’s ever-present coordination...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 08): Isaiah’s Call (Ch 6)]]></title>
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	With the end of the preface (Isaiah 1-5), we begin the book proper. However, we should not forget the message of the preface because it will come into play even before Isaiah’s call is begun. I see the book as divided into four major sections. The preface, of course, was the first. The remaining three are Rule (chs 6-37), Rescue (chs 38-55), and Resplendence (chs 56-66). The call, chapter 6, begins this section I call “Rule.” It is not that any of these sections do not contain ideas...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 07): Vineyard Allegory (Ch 5)]]></title>
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	Isaiah 5 begins with an allegory of a vineyard. The allegory is not that difficult to understand. But it is usually true that with fairly straightforward allegories, we often miss some of the nuanced fullness. Biblical interpretation certainly goes beyond a surface level read. Understanding of a passage may go beyond its general context and even its historical and cultural setting. A biblical theology approach ties the passage not only to it systematic or even obvious general...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 06): Justice and Judgment (Chs 3-4)]]></title>
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	Isaiah 3 begins with a call to the people to “Observe!” The Lord God of Hosts (read that, Sovereign Master) grabs their attention so that they will focus on his words. He is turning now from the general descriptions of the previous chapter to specifics. The support structure of their society was being eroded by their sin. God tells them that he will now completely remove that support. Through the next several verses we learn what that support is. God has in mind the leadership of the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 05): Restoration / Judgment Contrast (Ch 2)]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	Isaiah 2 begins with a superscription similar to the one starting off chapter 1. This structural detail serves a couple of purposes. First, it lets us know that chapter 1 is done. Chapter 1 stands alone as a separate section that actually provides an overview to the whole book. It describes God’s complaint, let’s us know of God’s heartache over Judah’s sin, gives us a good understanding of what Judah’s sin was (the unjust mindset resulting from not imitating God), emphasizes the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 04): Focus on Justice (Ch 1:16-31)]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	The fourth section of Isaiah 1 is contained in verses 16 through 20. These verses speak to the call of Judah. Here God calls his people not only to dutiful obedience, but to a reasoned choice of faith. The outline or structure of development in chapter 1 so far has not been haphazard. It is not mere chance movement from complaint to lament to disgust to call. The flow is very much similar to what even non-Christian psychologists understand of emotional sequence. According to Robert...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isaiah (Part 03): Lament to Disgust (Ch 1:4-15)]]></title>
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	I call verses 4 through 9 of chapter 1 God’s lament.&nbsp; In verse 4, we see God as he grieves. He begins calling out “Oh sinful nation.” In that “Oh” we find a Father brokenhearted over the waywardness of his children.&nbsp; The Hebrew is an elongated expression of two words combining the ideas of “alas” and “woe.” That note of grief carries through as God does not simply call Judah names for their evil. His descriptions tie back to the father image he began in verse 2. They are...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 38) - Rome]]></title>
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	In chapter 27 Paul had warned the centurion Julius that the sailors would try to make it to shore using the skiff. That, Paul had said, would be disastrous for them (27:31). From the one sentence Luke records, we may understand Paul’s statement to mean that God had ordained loss of all lives unless they all remained together in the boat. But Paul’s statement does not necessarily have to be understood that way. Previously in the chapter, Paul had given advice, not by angelic message,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 37) - Storm at Sea]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	In chapter 27 an abrupt change occurs from the previous chapters’ doctrinal emphasis in Paul’s defenses. Paul is finally being sent to Rome and this chapter, along with the beginning of chapter 28, gives account of his travel. Luke travels with him as evidenced by a return to the “we” format.

	Paul is not the only prisoner on the voyage. Verse 1 tells us there were others but probably not many. It would seem odd that Festus, after so short a time in Caesarea, would have very many...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 36) - Paul Before Agrippa]]></title>
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	Paul’s defense before Agrippa is the longest address of his recorded in Acts. For the third time Luke includes the record of Paul’s conversion experience. Again, we read of Paul’s progression from zealous Jewish Pharisee to preacher of the resurrection. Why all this repetition by Luke? Paul’s speech in Acts 26 provides, in the story of Paul’s attitude, conversion, and ministry, the story of the gospel. This is Luke’s point. God had established the old covenant which was being twisted...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 35) - Paul Before Festus]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	The following timeline will serve to coordinate our thinking of the events in our study in relation to some of the other events and appointments and reigns that affected the region.

	52&nbsp;&nbsp; Ananias ends term as high priest

	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember that Ananias was the one who ordered Paul to be struck during his defense before the Sanhedrin in AD 58. He was referred to as the high priest although that was only an honorary reference...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 34) - Paul Before Felix]]></title>
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	&nbsp;

	The Jews were not about to allow Paul to be forgotten. They didn’t want Felix letting him go for lace of prosecuting witnesses. Chapter 24 verse 1 tells us that Ananias and some elders arrived from Jerusalem just five days after Paul. Considering that it was at least a two-day journey, we must understand that they lost no time in hiring a Greek-speaking lawyer/orator and preparing their case before heading off to Caesarea.

	Tertullus is a Roman name, but this man may have been a Jew...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 33) - Paul Before the Sanhedrin]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Lysias, the commander in whose custody Paul remained, was not satisfied. Felix, the Roman procurator, had left him in Jerusalem to maintain order. But a mob scene within the temple involving Jews seemingly intent on killing this man, Paul, surprised the commander. Yet, after settling the violence and allowing Paul to speak to the people, Lysias still had no idea what had gotten the Jews worked into a frenzy about Paul. His regular means of extracting information through torture had been...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 32) - A Plea to the Jews]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[One additional note must be made concerning the trip to Jerusalem resulting in Paul’s arrest. We learned in 19:21 that while in Ephesus, Paul, compelled by the Spirit, planned to “go to Jerusalem, saying, ‘After I have been there, I must also see Rome.’” From our vantage point we understand that the “must” in seeing Rome would be because he’d be taken there as a prisoner. His trip to Jerusalem, then, is that which will lead to the accusations, arrest, and trials. And we are repeatedly told that...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 31) - Paul to Jerusalem]]></title>
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After Paul’s farewell to the Christians in Troas, he continues on his journey to Jerusalem. He is trying to make Jerusalem by Pentecost, which is roughly 50 days following Passover (“roughly” because technically it is 50 days following the wave offering of the 1st day of the week following the Passover). We’ve already learned in 20:6 that Paul left Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which encompasses the 7 days following Passover. So we are at least a couple of days or more into the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 30) - Where's Priscilla?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In Acts 19 we read of Demetrius, a silversmith who clearly saw that the gospel Paul preached threatened his economical, religious, and political world (19:23-27). It is interesting that this concept so clearly understood by him and the pagans of his day is beyond the grasp of 21st century America. Today in this country, many seem to think that religion should be a private manner. We are allowed by our freedoms to believe whatever we want. We’re just told that we should keep our beliefs to...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acts (Part 29) - Great is Artemis?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;
Ephesus was the magic capital of Asia Minor. Magic was thought of as the ability to control spirits to do your bidding or work to your advantage. In Acts 19:11-20, Luke begins by describing the miracles of God performed by Paul particularly in the matter of healing and exorcism. The aprons or belts or handkerchiefs that touched his skin could be carried to the sick or possessed with the effect of healing. Of course, no special magic skin cells were transferred by this activity. God was...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Emergents: The Love of God]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;The emergent Christian is difficult to define. The reason for this difficulty is that although the emergent’s conversation is heavily sprinkled with God, love, and even the Bible, the love of God is more than just emphasis among Christian doctrine; it seems to exist as almost the exclusive doctrine amid silence or questioning of all other doctrine. The exclusivity of a doctrine like love shifts focus from the lover to the object of the love. Thus, Christianity, for the emergent, becomes a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Review: He Loves Me! by Wayne Jacobsen]]></title>
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Title: He Loves Me!
Author: Wayne Jacobsen
Publisher: Windblown Media (Newbury Park, CA; (second edition) 2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9647292-5-4
Category: Christian Living
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Review Date: 2/21/11
Overall Rating: 3.0 (0 lowest – 7.0 highest)
Category Ratings (0 lowest – 5 highest)
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Dying Christian to his Soul by Alexander Pope]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/the-dying-christian-to-his-soul-by-alexander-pope/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Vital spark of heav'nly flame,

Quit, oh, quit, this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life!
&nbsp;
Hark! they whisper; Angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away.
What is this absorbs me quite,
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my Soul! can this be Death?
&nbsp;
The world recedes; it disappears;
Heav'n opens on my eyes; my ears
With...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/goblin-market-by-christina-rosetti/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Morning and evening

Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;--
All ripe together
In summer weather,--
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Job's Shoes by Dan Salter]]></title>
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From clouds, reflections of the dying sun
Glide silently through windows of my soul,
To hang their weight, when day is fully done,
Upon my heart, its passions then control.
I saw my light, like candle snuffed, depart.
Dark agony took rein in vile...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Fundamentalist Christian Literary Analysis of the Transformation Narratives in Luke-Acts]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/a-fundamentalist-christian-literary-analysis-of-the-transformation-narratives-in-luke-acts/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dissertation - Caren Silvester.docx (191,6 kB)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Apologetics: Copleston-Russell Debate (1948) - Part 2 The Religious Experience and Moral Argument]]></title>
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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
C: Let's. Well, perhaps I might say a word about religious experience, and then we can go on to moral experience. I don't regard religious experience as a strict proof of the existence of God, so the character of the discussion changes somewhat, but I think it's true to say that the best explanation of it is the existence of God. By religious experience I don't mean simply feeling good. I mean a loving, but unclear, awareness of some object which irresistibly seems to the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Apologetics: Copleston-Russell Debate (1948) - Part 1 The Argument from Contingency]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Father Frederick C. Copleston (Jesuit Catholic priest) versus Bertrand Russell (agnostic philosopher, picture right)
This debate was a Third Program broadcast of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1948. Reprinted in several sources, the following is from Bertrand Russell On God and Religion edited by Al Seckel (Prometheus Books).
A DEBATE ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Bertrand Russell [hereafter R:] and F.C. Copleston [hereafter C:]
C: As we are going to discuss the existence of God, it might...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Perspective on Paul (Part 02)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;NPP (Part 2) – Is Wright Wrong?

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Four major doctrines hold the primary differences between the reformed theology of the majority of current conservative evangelicals (Reformed view) and the New Perspective on Paul (NPP). They are Gospel, Saving Faith, Justification, and Righteousness. We will look at the contrast of each.
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The Gospel, according to the Reformed view, includes the idea that God accomplished atonement for humankind through the sacrificial, vicarious, and penal...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Perspective on Paul (Part 01)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;In the very early 1500s, Martin Luther, then a Roman Catholic priest, was struggling. He was angry, confused, frustrated, and afraid. He poured his soul into working out his salvation in the goodness that God demanded, but he found that time after time he failed. It was not just the failing that disturbed him. In his failing, he viewed God ready, waiting, and almost eager to pound him with punishment for his sin. He feared God more than the Devil. The words “God’s righteousness” meant...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Baptism 2 - Response to Stuart Latimer's Christian Baptism series, sermon 2]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sermon 2 – Infant Baptism
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Response by Dan Salter:
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In his second sermon on Christian Baptism, Pastor Latimer’s argument for infant baptism hinges on two major points with which I disagree. His first point concerns paedobaptism’s symmetry with circumcision’s application to infants. Pastor Latimer read from Genesis 17 in which we find that circumcision is indeed the sign (picture) and seal (stamp of guarantee) of the Abrahamic...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Baptism 1 - Response to Stuart Latimer's Christian Baptism series, sermon 1]]></title>
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Sermon 1 – Sprinkling v. Immersion
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Response by Dan Salter:
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I must begin by stating my agreement with Pastor Latimer on the acceptance of an individual’s baptism whether by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring. I differ with Pastor Latimer, however, in that it appears the mode of baptism means somewhat more to him than it does to me. I formerly preferred immersion (while still accepting all modes) because of the picture I...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 40) - Concluding the Great Commission]]></title>
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Understanding the Great Commission is important in understanding the link to and basis for the book of Acts and so that we may embrace it properly as well for our lives. Postmillennialists (PMs) understand the commission to directly inform their eschatological outlook. PMs insist that the logic of what Jesus presents in Matthew 28:18-20 is something like this:
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Premise 1: Jesus has all authority (28:18).
Premise 2: Jesus will be with his people always (28:20b).
Premise 3; Jesus gives his...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 39) - The Great Commission]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We will return to Matthew 27 briefly to discuss the miracles that occurred immediately at the death of Christ. Verses 51 through 53 tell us that the veil in the temple marking the entrance to the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom. An earthquake violently shook the area to the extent that rocks were split apart. And some tombs were opened from which resurrected saints emerged. These miracles were intended by God and recognized and incorporated by Matthew as further evidence that Jesus...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 38) - Crucifixion]]></title>
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Tacitus mentions Pilate as being procurator over Judea. A procurator is a financial administrator. Because of his expanded judicial power and some archaeological found in Rome, most historians now believe Pilate to have been a prefect. After Herod the Great died in 4 BC, his Palestinian kingdom was divided among his sons. Herod Archelaus controlled Judea. He was a cruel and unthinking ruler whom Rome soon removed from office. The region then was made a prefecture over which a series of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 37) - Then All the Disciples Left Him and Fled]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Jesus is leaving the house of their Last Supper (Passover) and Lord’s Supper (New Covenant Communion) as he mentions to the eleven that they would all fall away that very night. Peter, in typical bold self-confidence, argues that although all others may, he never would. There may be a touch more than mere self-confidence here. Saying that he would never fall away is self-confidence; bringing up the possibility that all others may smacks of the same arrogance that Jesus spoke against on the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 36) - And It Was Night]]></title>
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Jesus has just completed his discussion with the disciples concerning the end of the age and his return. He has told them that when “the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne” (25:31) and say to his people “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (25:34). The disciples are listening intently, eyes glazed over, with the glories of that time filling their...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 35) - The Sky Will Light Up]]></title>
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Jesus has urged his disciples to flee Jerusalem when they see it surrounded by armies. And history tells us that the withdrawal of the first Roman siege in AD 66 did give Christians the opportunity to leave the city. In Matthew 24:20 Jesus tells them to pray that their flight may not be on a Sabbath. Why would Christ be concerned? Is he telling us that we should observe the Sabbath today? Jesus does not imply that Sabbath-keeping should be done today or is the reason why they should pray to...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 34) - Get Out of Town!]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The seventh and final woe of Jesus’ condemnation of the religious leaders holds a few puzzling points. Jesus recognizes the honor that the Pharisees give to past prophets in building and decorating tombs (memorials) to those prophets. But even while they do this, he notes their hypocrisy. They claim that had they been alive back in the days of these prophets, they would have listened and not done, as their forefathers, and killed these prophets. Jesus argues that by saying so, they testify...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 33) - The Seven Woes]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[No more than a breath or two separates chapter 23 from the end of chapter 22. Jesus has silenced his detractors of the religious establishment by not only answering their questions in ways with which they could not argue back but also in asking a question of his own to which they could not, in their state of unbelief, provide an answer. He turns from these false covenant keepers to his disciples and the crowd.
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But his first comment gives us pause. He tells his disciples, “The scribes and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 32) - Authority, Judgment, and Glory]]></title>
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The sequence of events so far in this final week of Jesus’ earthly life include the following:
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Sunday – Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey colt in fulfillment of prophecy, identifying him as Messiah. It is late in the day, and Jesus looks around in the temple (Mark 11:11), probably noting with sorrow the ending of the day’s sacrifice buying and selling activity. He then returns to Bethany.
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Monday morning – On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus sees a fig tree. Being hungry and with...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Matthew (Part 31) - Passion of Passover]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Jerusalem was preparing for the yearly feast of the Passover. The first Passover took place near the beginning of Israel’s history as a nation when God raised up Moses to lead them out of Egypt. Pharaoh had refused to let them go. A series of plagues was thrust on Egypt the last of which was designed to strike at the heart and will of the Egyptians, from Pharaoh on down. God told Moses he would pass through the land of Israel on a certain night and take the life of the firstborn of every...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Faith Electionism (Part 1) - FE's Satisfaction to Calvinism's and Arminian's Problems]]></title>
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Faith Electionism is the view that God elects based on the faith response to his revelatory enlightenment. I came to this conclusion based partly on what I considered the failure to satisfy in the arguments of both Calvinism and Arminianism.
Calvinism’s problems
(1) (Geisler’s argument) God’s relationship with his creation cannot be a pure love relationship if God must coerce the creature’s love. God intended with creation to establish a perfect and everlasting love...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Church Constitution - New Covenant Chapel]]></title>
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Constitution
New Covenant Chapel
Greenville, SC
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Preamble
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Recognizing God’s grace by which we live here and eternally and desiring to glorify God through relationship with him and with others of biblical and Christian faith, in praise of our great God, Lord Christ, and Holy Spirit, we establish this constitution for the framework of operation of our church. &#160;
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Article I – Name, Location, and Purpose
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Section 1: Name
This organization shall be...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 32) - Chapters 21-22: The End and the Beginning]]></title>
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The first 8 verses of chapter 21 belong to the vision that John began with chapter 20. So far in this vision we have seen Satan bound (when Christ accomplished redemption), the people of God receive freedom to reign in life with Christ through this age, Satan released at the end of this age to gather the godless in rebellion, and God’s just judgment over all evil. As chapter 21 opens, a change occurs. God restores all of creation. Just as we were made new creatures, heaven and earth are...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 31) - Chapter 20: The 1000 Years]]></title>
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Three major eschatological views take their names from this chapter. Postmillennialism understands the 1000 years mentioned here to be a figurative time period just prior to Christ’s return. Through the time in which we now live, the world is changed from darkness to light. Christianity increases to the point in which the world’s population is predominantly Christian. Christian values and activity dominate, and that golden age of lion and lamb languishing together is brought in. Christ...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 30) - Chapters 18-19: Judgment of the Prostitute]]></title>
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Another angel comes to John at the beginning of Revelation 18 to provide him with the detail of the great prostitute’s judgment. The prostitute was described in the previous chapter as the “great city.” We had already learned in Revelation 11 that the great city was also connected with Sodom, Egypt, and Jerusalem. In Revelation 18 the great city is connected with Babylon. With these multiple references we should be able to realize that the prostitute does not refer to one city or one...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 29) - Chapter 16: Final Judgment]]></title>
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Two points in Revelation stabilize us in understanding the timing of the incidents in the book. The first comes in chapter 5. The call issues forth for the one who is worthy to open the scroll. For a moment, no one responds. God himself holds the scroll in his right hand, but does not open it. But then Christ appears as a lamb that was slain to take the scroll and open it. From this we understand the scroll to contain the plan of God for the redeemed. Christ was the only one able to open it...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 28) – Chapter 15: Preparation for the End]]></title>
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We now approach not only the end of chapter 14 but the end of this section of Revelation. In the broad outline of the book (see chart in Part 23), chapters 12 through 14 provide the spiritual history of this age. Although chapter 12 begins with the Woman’s struggle against the Dragon during the time of the old covenant, the focus for this section is on the Dragon’s attack through this age (chapter 13) and the security for those who follow the Lamb (chapter 14). The last 7 verses of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 10) - First Corinthians 14]]></title>
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What we know as Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians was actually not the first time he wrote to them. First Corinthians 5:9 refers to a previous letter from Paul. And it is apparent from Paul’s discussion of things he has heard (1:11; 5:1; 16:15-18) and from a letter he also received from them (7:1) that most of this letter is in response to those matters reported to him either from travelers or through the letter from the Corinth church.
One thing that is apparent from all the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 09) - First Timothy 2]]></title>
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We will start our discussion of 1 Timothy 2 by reading the specific verses in question—verses 8 through 15 (Paul is speaking): “I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 08) - Ephesians 5]]></title>
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The book of Ephesians is divided evenly into two parts. In the first three chapters, Paul discusses our position in Christ, and in the second three, we learn how to live based on that position. Chapter 5—located in the heart of the second section on learning how to live—emphasizes the love that should characterize our lives. Paul begins urging us to imitate God and conduct our lives in love “as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.” This phrase seems simple to grasp. Our love...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 27) – Chapter 14: Angelic Messages]]></title>
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We need to back up for one more clarification in regard to absolutism in application. Remember, absolutism in application means that we apply the absolute attribute of a specific principle in the Word of God to an outworked application that we develop. This is something we should not do. We have no authority to require all Christians to operate according to application conclusions that we have derived from a Scriptural principle. God gives to all of us his principles (and some specific...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 07) - Head-coverings]]></title>
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	To be perfectly clear regarding authority, I want to add to our discussion the questionable doctrine of the eternal subordination of the Son – that doctrine which most patriarchal complementarians (PCs) insist upon. According to this doctrine, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all equal in essence (or being) but are different in role or function. And part of the function in which they differ is that the Father holds supreme authority while the Son (and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 06) - Headship]]></title>
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In our last summary, we began the discussion of the choice for the 12 apostles especially related to gender and nationality. The patriarchal complementarian (PC) viewpoint is that only men were chosen to be apostles because the apostles represented church leadership. Further, defining the role of the apostles, James Borland states in chapter 4 of Grudem/Piper’s book Recovering Biblical Manhood &amp; Womanhood, “Apostleship was to involve leadership, rulership, and the reception of...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 05) - The Gospels]]></title>
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As we move from review of the old covenant into the Gospels, we find a startling contrast in the recognition and activity of women from what the old covenant society had projected. Several notable firsts in the advent of Christ and His mission involve women. A woman was the first to hear the announcement of the Messiah’s pending birth. A woman was the first to request and receive a miracle (the changing of water to wine). A woman was the first to hear individually the declaration from...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 04) - Old Covenant Elements]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/biblical-egalitarianism-part-04-old-covenant-elements/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our discussion so far has taken us through the creation accounts where we found, rather than a hierarchical authority, a unity or oneness between husband and wife in both their image-bearing and relationship. We have discussed the entrance of sin into the world and its devastating effects on the relationship ideals set forth in creation (i.e., perfection of humanity’s dominion over the rest of creation, perfection of husband/wife relationship, and perfection of humanity’s relationship with...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 03) - Sin-Curse Effects after the Fall]]></title>
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I call them mindset ruts—those unthinking perspectives we subconsciously apply to life that lock our interpretations into some pattern for no really good, logical, supportable reason. They can be dangerous things for Christians because they tend to skew our perception of truth. Take, for example, the comments on race of some eminent conservative Christian theologians of 150 years ago.
Robert Dabney was a Southern Presbyterian theologian who just happened to write a fine Systematic...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 02) - The Fall and its Consequences]]></title>
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Among those who debate the issue, a few labels have come to identify the sides. Those who do not believe the Bible limits the roles of women have been mistakenly (although sometimes derisively) called Feminists. Those who believe the Bible limits women have been called Hierarchalists. The label Hierarchilists gave way to Patriarchalists, just as Feminists became Egalitarians. Both sides were uncomfortable with what they were called. The Patriachalists, employing some organizational as...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Biblical Egalitarianism (Part 01) - The Creation Accounts]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/biblical-egalitarianism-part-1-the-creation-accounts/</link>
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Why a study about women? In many conservative Christian circles, the mere mention of considering women in ministry beyond traditional roles may be met with disapproval. “The Bible is clear,” they declare with memorized “proof” verse. Even merely reviewing the issue may receive a charge of teetering on the brink of heresy.
But surely this must be an overreaction, isn’t it? We are not discussing biblical inspiration, the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, the atonement, the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 11) – Keep the Faith]]></title>
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The author of Hebrews wrote this letter to Roman Jews who were struggling. They were shallow Christians who were veering back toward the Judaism that they had formerly left in order to embrace Christ. The author argued that Christ is better than the priestly system of the old covenant. They also learned that Christ and the New Covenant is superior to the old covenant in that Christ effected what the old covenant only pictured. The trap for the Roman Jews was that they were looking for...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 10) – Faith]]></title>
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Chapter 11 is the most well known portion of the book of Hebrews. Some have referred to it as the Faith Hall of Fame. Some people also have viewed the first verse as a definition of faith. Advancing either of those two ideas, however, does not appear to be the author’s intent.
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The first verse does look like a definition. It starts out “Faith is….” But let’s remember the audience and the author’s argument so far. The author is writing to Jews—Jews who, we learned at the end of chapter...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 09) – The Consciousness of Sin]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/hebrews-part-9-the-consciousness-of-sin/</link>
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Ever since explaining the order of Melchizedek at the beginning of chapter 7, the author has unveiled more and more detail in the comparison of the old Hebrew form to that of Christ’s high priestly ministry. Chapter 7 showed how Christ’s priesthood was superior. Chapter 8 revealed the better covenant. Chapter 9 lauded the blood of Christ’s sacrifice over that of the old system. Chapter 10 continues peeling the onion, but with a subtle change. The subtleness is noted in the very first line:...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 08) – Covenant and Testament]]></title>
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When discussing chapter 7, we skimmed over one thought to which we will now return for a moment. In the first few verses of that chapter, the author recounts almost all we know of Melchizedek from the Old Testament. The portion not specified has to do with the very first act of Melchizedek as he comes on the scene in Genesis 14.
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Abraham has just returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the other kings who had attacked Sodom and taken captive its king, people, and possessions...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 07) – The Order of Melchizedek]]></title>
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In chapters 5 and 6 of Hebrews, we learned that Jesus was a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. That statement, quoted in 5:6 from Psalm 110:4 and repeated in 5:10, and 6:20, begs the question concerning what exactly the order of Melchizedek is. Perhaps the author not only anticipated the question but actually repeatedly made the statement hoping that we would ask. The explanation, provided at the opening of chapter 7, provides the foundation of the author’s argument concerning the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 06) – Impossible to Repent]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/hebrews-part-6-impossible-to-repent/</link>
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In Hebrews 5:11, the heart of the author begins to come through. And it is in this verse that we begin to see the dual purpose of this letter. So many scholars have found it difficult (and even impossible, considering the current lack of consensus) to organize the book effectively. I think part of that difficulty is because of the dual emphasis that weaves in and out of the discussion. The emphases are these: (1) Jesus, the Son, provides, through his high priesthood (which is different from...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 05) – Jesus, the Appointed High Priest ]]></title>
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Verse 14 of chapter 4 seems rather abrupt in turning our attention to the thought of Christ as high priest. The suddenness, however, may be striking to only us 21st century Christians. Remember that one of the reasons we believe that the recipients of this epistle were Jewish Christians is because of the familiarity presumed concerning Jewish religious culture and heritage. The focus of this chapter and the previous one has been on entering the rest of God. We have already discussed that...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 04) – Better than the Prophets ]]></title>
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The author of Hebrews has emphasized the Sonship of Christ as the reason for his superiority to angels. In patrimony, position, and privilege, Christ is better precisely because he is Son. That means that the discussion does not dwell on Christ’s superiority in his deity. Of course, he is God, and God, of course, is supreme. The discussion rather promotes a view of Christ in his humanity—thus, the role he takes as Son. In his humanity Christ was obedient in fulfilling all the covenant...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 03) – Better than the Angels]]></title>
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Hebrews 1 begins with the contrast of God’s revelation in the past through the prophets but now through Christ. This puts us in mind of John 1:1 in which Christ is presented as the Word. The revealing Word, Christ, surpasses the Law and prophets in making manifest the righteousness of God (Romans 3:21-22). In the old covenant we actually see God’s revelation through prophets (direct revelation), priests (in the symbolism of their religious activities), and angels (in their ministrations...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 26) – Chapter 14: Time to Reap]]></title>
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Before we leave the last couple of discussions concerning relationships and church, I want to make sure we understand how the principles and thought process should work to develop our decisions. Revelation 13 showed us that Satan attacks by deception. Against the unsaved, he mimics God to divert worship. Against the saved, he twists truth to harm our relationship with God. For example, Douglas Wilson is an evangelical pastor in Idaho. He has written several books and is quite outspoken...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hebrews (Part 02) – Jesus, the Son]]></title>
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In our last study, we concluded that the epistle to the Hebrews was written in the late AD 60s to the Jewish Christians in Rome. By this time, the Christian community of Rome had probably been in existence for 30 to 40 years. The emperor Claudius had expelled the Jews from Rome in AD 49, but it was not too many years afterwards that they were allowed to return. In the interim, however, Gentile Christians had solidified leadership positions. With the return of the Jews, tensions probably...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 15) - Chapters 13b-15: Life with Love and Reason]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Romans 13:8-14 provides us not only with a conclusion to chapters 12 and 13, but also the armament with which to tackle Romans 14. The section is divided into two paragraphs, each offering one prong of our two-pronged approach. The first prong reiterates the benefit of love.

Love, remember, is the uncoerced desire for the benefit of another that outweighs all other desires, including those for self. This desire for the benefit of others is the New Covenant answer to the legalism of the old...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 14) - Chapters 12-13: Presenting our Bodies]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-14-chapters-12-13-presenting-our-bodies/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Romans 12 opens with a call to present our bodies sacrificially to God. But that call is based on what Paul has discussed before. Paul’s argument is that since God has accomplished salvation and applies it through faith (Romans 1-8) and since God’s sovereignty controls all creation to accomplish His prioritized will so that Jews and Gentiles will be joined as one body in Christ through faith (Romans 9-11) and since God is rich in wisdom and knowledge, sovereignly directing all things from,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 13) - Chapters 9-11: God's Covenant People]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-13-chapters-9-11-gods-covenant-people/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[We learn from the last part of Romans 9 that God will keep a remnant of Israel although He cries out in Hosea that they (the nation) are no longer His people. Understanding the reason for the dismissal of the nation and the election of a remnant is not only the focus and climax of the Romans letter in chapters 9 through 11, but it is the very conjoining bridge of the old covenant and the new.

The old covenant, made with Abraham and his offspring (specifically through Isaac and Jacob) was...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 12) - Chapter 9: God's Sovereign Election]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-12-chapter-9-gods-sovereign-election/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Election, the choosing by God of those to whom redemption will be applied, occurred before the world began. This election involves the “middle knowledge” of God (knowledge of potentiality, as opposed to necessary knowledge—truths not dependent on God’s will—and free knowledge—truths dependent on God’s will). God created for His glory based on establishing relationship with His creatures. He did not just create Adam and Eve for this relationship. He created all people—knowing all of us in this...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 11) - Chapter 9: Calvinism]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-11-chapter-9-calvinism/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The last post covered three of four key concepts that frame our discussion of God’s application of Christ’s accomplished redemption. Those three and our concluding thoughts about them are as follows:

1. Sovereignty – God’s absolute control, accomplishing His prioritized will.

2. Death – Separation from God, requiring God’s intervention for saving faith.

3. Faith (Saving) – Assent to Christ, which is God’s basis for application of accomplished redemption.

The fourth key concept is Love....]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 10) - Chapter 9: Key Concepts]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-10-chapter-9-key-concepts/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Four key concepts exist that frame our discussion of the application of God’s redemption. These four include sovereignty, death, faith, and love.

Sovereignty
As discussed previously, the problem of evil can be presented using three premises.
Premise 1: If God is all powerful, He could prevent evil.
Premise 2: If God is all good, He would prevent evil.
Premise 3: Evil exists
These premises yield the following possible conclusions.
Conclusion 1: God is not all powerful
Conclusion 2: God is not...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 09) - Chapter 9: Sovereignty]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-9-chapter-9-sovereignty/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The problem of evil has plagued Christian thinkers for centuries. Atheists use it to attack the existence of God. Theists grapple with it in trying to understand the balance between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility. Some Christians “resolve” the problem with a shrug of the shoulders and an exhortation to trust God. And where God is silent, we should take a lesson from God’s response to Job—trust the almighty, omniscient Creator. However, the multitude of commands to read, study, and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 08) - Chapter 8]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-8-chapter-8/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The first two verses of Romans 8 actually conclude the thought of Romans 7. In chapter 7, Paul has lamented the fact that although we died in/with Christ (Romans 6:3)—which means we are both dead to sin (6:2) and dead to the law (7:4)—he still finds that “the evil [he does] not want is what [he keeps] on doing” (7:19). But he concludes nevertheless in 8:1-2 that there is no condemnation any longer for this sin in the flesh because we no longer are under the law of sin and death (the law that if...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 07) - Chapter 7]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-07-chapter-7/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Romans 7 begins with an analogy. Paul has just argued in Romans 6 that those who belong to God, although not under the Law, are nevertheless servants of Christ and righteousness. Paul's analogy in the first 6 verses of chapter 7 is meant to drive the point home. But there may be some confusion as we look into it.

Paul starts with an illustration. He says that a woman is bound to her husband by the law. If the husband dies, the woman is free to marry another. Okay, in the example, then, figure...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Romans (Part 06b) - Covenant Theology]]></title>
         <link>http://www.truthwhys.com/news/romans-part-06b-covenant-theology/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[I wanted to talk about Covenant Theology before continuing in Romans so as to establish a framework for some of the things we had focused on in the first six chapters as well as for upcoming discussions in the middle chapters of Romans.

My definition of a biblical covenant is this: an absolute relational bond of faithfulness initiated, defined, and administered by God, involving obligations and benefits. This differs somewhat from traditional covenant definitions. For example, O. Palmer...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 25) – Chapter 13: The Beasts]]></title>
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As we left chapter 12 of Revelation, the Dragon had become furious because his attempts at destroying the Woman had been foiled. He charges off to make war on the Woman’s offspring—the covenant people of God of this age. Some people may think that we distorted the imagery here just a bit. How could the Dragon be unsuccessful against the Woman, be upset, and therefore be driven to try attacking her offspring when the Woman and the offspring supposedly both represent the covenant people of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 24) – Chapter 12: The Woman and her Offspring]]></title>
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Perhaps the reason that there is some disagreement about the identity of the woman in Revelation 12 is because she appears in the chapter both before and after Christ’s earthly ministry. Christ comes from the woman, surely showing her to be Israel. Yet, following Christ’s ascension she continues to flourish, safe from the Dragon’s attack—unlike Israel whose crush in AD 70 left her floundering for centuries. I believe the most consistent way to view the woman is as the covenant people of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Revelation (Part 23) – Chapter 12: The Woman and the Dragon]]></title>
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So far we have covered 11 of Revelation’s 12 chapters. At this point we may do well to review some of the elements in the first half to recognize their significance in the structure of the book. From our study of chapters 2 and 3 we learned about the messages of Christ to the 7 churches. Each of these messages had a focus or emphasis.
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Letter to Ephesus – Love in Relationship
Letter to Smyrna – Endure Trials from Without
Letter to Pergamum – Keep Pure Within
Letter to...]]></description>
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