Orienting Principles: Four Priorities for the Imitation of Christ

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from The Imitation of Christ in the Gospel of Luke: Growing in Christlike Love for God and Neighbor (P&R), by C. D. “Jimmy” Agan III. At some point, each of us has experienced “supermarket amnesia.” We leave home with a short list of groceries we need to pick up:…

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Credo’s Cache

Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. Jesus Is Better: By Melissa Kruger – Melissa notes: “As we share our faith, may we do so with the winsome confidence that life in Jesus is so much richer, fuller,…

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The Beauty of the Incarnation

One of the great treatises on the person and work of Christ is the work entitled On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius. The entire treatise is worth a careful read as the author takes the reader carefully through a journey of understanding why the person of Christ, as fully God and fully man, was…

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New Issue is here! Check out the interviews

The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here! “Justification: The Doctrine On Which the Church Stands or Falls.” Not only do we have some very helpful articles, but interviews as well. Check out the following: 10 Questions with Tim Brister “From Skeptic to Believer: R. Michael Allen Explains What Justification Has to Do with…

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You Saw It On Credo: Socrates In the City

The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Taking this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas thought it would be valuable to create a forum that might encourage busy and successful professionals in thinking about the bigger questions in life. Thus Socrates In The City: Conversations on the Examined Life was born.…

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A Tribute to Dr. S. Lewis Johnson (Fred Zaspel)

On January 28, 2004, ten years ago today, Dr. S. Lewis Johnson passed away at age eighty-eight. He was a Biblical scholar and theologian of rare abilities, and he was a beloved friend. His influence on my own ministry would be difficult to measure. The hundreds of tapes of his preaching and teaching have gone…

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Credo’s Cache

Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity PDF: By Reformed Resources – Check out this book written by B.B. Warfield on the doctrine of the Trinity. You can purchase a PDF of the…

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Why I Am a Cessationist – Thomas Schreiner at TGC

Credo Magazine contributor, Thomas Schreiner, has written an article at The Gospel Coalition called, “Why I Am a Cessationist.” Sam Storms has written the opposite article, “Why I Am a Continuationist.” Here is an excerpt from Schreiner’s article: Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Paul says the church is “built on the foundation of the…

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Changing lives with Christ’s changeless truth

The newly formed Biblical Counseling Coalition (2011) organized around the goal of fostering collaborative relationships as well as providing relevant biblical resources that equip the body of Christ to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.  As their confessional statement continues, it says that they pursue “this purpose by organizing our thinking around one central question:…

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Barrett’s Book Notes: Evangelicalism, Book of Common Prayer, and Gospel of Matthew

James Goggin and Kyle Strobel, eds. Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013. Goggin and Strobel have pulled together an eclectic group of contributors, each writing on different (sometimes very different) traditions in regards to Christian spirituality. Fred Sanders writes on the Evangelical tradition, Greg Peters on…

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The Desperate Everyday Need For Christ

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, is always a helpful companion when thinking through various aspects of the Christian life (an excellent biography of Lloyd-Jones can be found here). He often highlights our desperate state in the clutches of sin, and the need we have of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here Lloyd-Jones is dealing with the issue of…

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