Senses, Intellect and Spirit

By Paul Helm– In response to the charge that Christian theology, indeed the Christian religion, is nothing other than words about words about words, we have seen that our minds and our senses are to be used in a quite natural way in coming to understand our faith. The Christian message is in this sense…

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On the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament, Part 2

Ardel Caneday with Matthew Claridge– This is part 2 of a short series on the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament with Credo blogger (!) and New Testament scholar Ardel Caneday, Professor of New Testament Studies and Biblical Studies at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Previous installments in the series can be found…

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Crossway Book Giveaways

The May issue of Credo Magazine, “Chosen by Grace,” is now here! And we are giving away books too! This week here are the books we are giving away: RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith. By Michael J. Svigel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012. Here is the publisher’s description: The time has come for evangelicals to reclaim…

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May issue now here! “Chosen by Grace”

Open publication – Free publishing   To view the Magazine as a PDF [download format=”2″ id=”4″] The biblical doctrine of election is offensive. It collides with our demand for human autonomy. It removes our will from the throne. And it exposes our nakedness, revealing us to be the sinners that we truly are, undeserving of…

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Kingdom through Covenant-Interview with Peter J. Gentry, Part 2

Interview by Matthew Claridge– This is Part 2 of our interview with Stephen J. Wellum and Peter J. Gentry about their groundbreaking book, Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants. In Part 1 we talked with Wellum and you can read that interview here. In this interview we are pleased to talk with…

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Kingdom through Covenant-Interview with Stephen Wellum, Part 1

Interview by Matthew Claridge— We are delighted to have with us today (and tomorrow!) both Stephen J. Wellum, Professor of Systematic Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Peter J. Gentry, Professor of Old Testament at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In Part 1 of this interview we talk with Stephen Wellum about this…

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Unanswered Prayer

By Fred Zaspel– “Unanswered prayer” is a frustrating question virtually every Christian has faced. We know that God has promised to act in response to our prayers, but then he so often does not seem to at all. He has said he will give us the desires of our heart (Psalm 20:4-5), but so often…

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Signs of the Times: Revelation 6:1-17

By Thomas Schreiner– Revelation 6:1-17 teaches us that our God is the Lord of history. He is the final judge. Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a white…

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The Persecution of the Puritans

  The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies has now posted the audios from their most recent conference, “Religious Liberty and the Cross: 1662 and the Persecution of the Puritans.” And here they are: Dr. Michael Haykin – “Puritanism Under the Cross” (MP3) Steve Weaver – “Baptists and 1662: The Persecution of John Norcott and Hercules Collins” (MP3) Dr. Tom…

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Consternation over Ben Carson, Evolution, and Morality

By Richard Weikart– Yesterday, May 14th, almost 500 Emory University faculty and students expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker did not toe the ideological line when it came to evolutionary biology.  Yes, gasp, the renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson does not believe in evolutionary theory.  Not only that, but biology professors at Emory…

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