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Why should anyone care about the little letter of James? Didn’t Martin Luther call it “a right strawy epistle” and think that it didn’t “preach Christ” enough? Answers come readily. If you care about (A) how to deal with trials and temptations, if you ever need (B) God’s wisdom, especially for the right words in…
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By A. B. Caneday My response to the question asked of me concerning James 5:16, which admittedly called for knowledge of pertinent passages within the Gospels with regard to Jesus’ teaching concerning confession and forgiveness of sin, prompted a follow-up question. I was asked to provide biblical support for my initial response. Specifically, the questioner…
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James Petigru Boyce was born on January 11, 1827 in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, Ker Boyce, was a banker and businessman. He was one of the most wealthy men in South Carolina. Boyce’s father wanted him to become a lawyer and was disappointed when he entered the ministry. When one of his father’s business…
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[Editor’s Note: This interview by James Hamilton, Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with Thomas Nettles is from 2010 and was originally posted at For His Renown.] Professor Thomas J. Nettles is one of my favorite historians. It was a joy to audit a course he taught on Baptist history,…
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By Michael A.G. Haykin The sixteenth century was one of the great eras of English Bible translation. Between 1526, when William Tyndale’s superlative rendition of the New Testament was printed, and 1611, when the King James Bible (KJB), or Authorized Bible, appeared, no less than ten English-language Bible versions were published. The translators of the…
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By Ardel Caneday Recent publication of the booklet, Must Christians Always Forgive? A Primer and Grammar on Forgiveness of Sins, prompted a reader to inquire concerning the admonition of James 5:16. James exhorts, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (ESV). The question posed does…
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Credo is Latin for “I believe.” From the creeds of the Church Fathers to the confessions of the Reformation, Christians have been faithful to confess the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Credo retrieves this classical and reformational heritage in order to create and cultivate theological renewal today. By bridging the gap between church…
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Dr. James Leo Garrett Jr. was born November 25, 1925 in Waco, TX. His father was a business teacher at Baylor University. He made his profession of faith at the age of nine and was baptized into the fellowship of Seventh and James Baptist Church. Garrett was later licensed and ordained to the ministry at…
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The Synod of Dort, or Dordrecht, met on an island in the Meuse River near Rotterdam. It began on November 13, 1618, and concluded May 9, 1619. Its purpose was to give a judgment on the theological formulations of certain pastors and theological professors. These men had been convinced of the correctness of the system…
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Yesterday we highlighted two lectures by Paul L. Maier on Luther and the Bible, given at the Dunham Bible Museum. Today we turn your attention to yet another DBM lecture, this time by Gerald Bray, titled, “Translating the Bible from William Tyndale to King James.” Gerald Bray is research professor of Divinity History and Doctrine…
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In the most recent issue of Credo Magazine, “Purgatory: An Evangelical Doctrine?”, James White has written an engaging article titled, “Purgatory: The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.” James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of more than twenty books, a professor,…
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This is a series of conversations between major theologians and Matthew Barrett on the doctrine of the Trinity. In this video, James Eglinton and Matthew Barrett discuss chapter 2 of Barrett’s book, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit (Baker, 2021). Eglinton and Barrett engage the Nicene Creed, explain why the Fathers chose certain words…
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