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How The Ancients Heard Resurrection: A Reply to David Bentley Hart

Ancient Christian readers and interpreters of Paul did not share David Bentley Hart’s understanding

Written by Brian Mattson | Saturday, August 18, 2018

Hart leaves us to wonder how he himself is able to “listen with antique ears” and to divine what the interpretive minds of Paul’s contemporaries “would have” understood. He provides no evidence for it. Missing is any exploration of “the implications, physical and metaphysical, that such words had in the age of the early church.”... Continue Reading

PCA Foundation President Announces Retirement

PCA Foundation President, Randy Stair, has informed the board of directors of the PCA Foundation of his intent to retire from his current role as of June 30, 2019.

Written by PCA Foundation | Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Randy Stair has served as President of the PCA Foundation since 1998. During his 21 years of leadership, the amount of donations to the Foundation has been over $205 million, the amount of grant distributions to ministry over $145 million and total assets have grown from $17 million to over $91 million. The staff and... Continue Reading

Philip Melanchthon and His Friendship with Luther

He was, for example, the indecisive companion Luther chided with his often misquoted “Sin boldly!”

Written by Simonetta Carr | Monday, August 13, 2018

In reality, he had a major impact on both the history and theology of the Protestant Reformations. His search for fair and middle ground caused him to be appreciated as official representative of Protestantism in several European meetings, and his proven clarity as writer of religious confessions gained him an invitation to England to compose... Continue Reading

Three People Who Through Suffering Became Extraordinary

Seeing positive outcomes of some suffering should lead us to trust that God can bring good from all suffering

Written by Randy Alcorn | Saturday, August 11, 2018

“Helen learned to speak at ten, and though listeners had trouble understanding her, she never gave up. She attended college and wrote several books, including The Story of My Life. She devoted herself to research, speaking, and raising money for organizations such as the American Foundation for the Blind.”   Seeing positive outcomes of some suffering should lead us... Continue Reading

But He Valued Women

The greatest contradiction of the Bill Hybels mess was his reputation for championing equality for women

Written by DRJ1952 | Saturday, August 11, 2018

“Bill had no contradiction in saying that he elevated the worth of women in the church. He did. The contradiction comes when the idea of recognizing the value of women is explored as a reflection of what God gives. It does not appear that Bill came from that perspective.”   On the surface the greatest... Continue Reading

Willow Creek Elders and Pastor Heather Larson Resign over Bill Hybels

Church leaders apologize to Nancy Ortberg, Nancy Beach, Vonda Dyer, and other women with accusations: “We have no reason not to believe you.”

Written by Bob Smietana | Friday, August 10, 2018

On the eve of the 2018 GLS, they admitted in a special congregational meeting that church leaders had failed to appropriately handle recent allegations of sexual misconduct against their founding pastor. Lead pastor Heather Larson announced that she was resigning immediately. The church’s elder board announced that its member would also step down in an... Continue Reading

Gottschalk

Like Augustine before him and Luther and Calvin after him, Gottschalk possessed an overriding sense of the sovereignty of God in salvation, and he brought it to bear upon his turbulent generation.

Written by Steven J. Lawson | Friday, August 10, 2018

Born at Mentz in modern Germany, Gottschalk was the son of a respected nobleman, Count Berno of Saxony. At the insistence of his father, he conceded to take a lifelong monastic vow while still a young boy. But upon reaching the age of maturity, Gottschalk sought to be released from this commitment and leave the... Continue Reading

Hybels Heir Quits Willow as New Accusations Arise Before Global Leadership Summit

Teaching pastor Steve Carter resigns after New York Times article; Global Leadership Summit had already lost 111 host sites.

Written by Bob Smietana | Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Lead pastor Heather Larson also previously issued an apology of her own. Willow Creek’s elders also admitted that Hybels was guilty of wrongdoing. “We are grieved that we let Bill’s statement stand for as long as we did that the women were lying and colluding,” the elders said. “We now believe Bill entered into areas of... Continue Reading

Sound the Alarm – Bell (a review of Rob Bell’s Premier Interview)

Christians in the UK are being fed poison by a false prophet – and far too many of us seem to drink the poison.

Written by David Robertson | Tuesday, August 7, 2018

If you listen to this interview you will see that Bell is no longer teaching the Gospel – indeed he is teaching against the Gospel and against the Bible. He has become his own one-man cult.   When you listen to an interview like this – its not enough to take the good bits (the bits... Continue Reading

His Stubborn Joy Brought Slavery Down

William Wilberforce (1759–1833)

Written by John Piper | Monday, August 6, 2018

Though Wilberforce never lost a parliamentary election from age twenty-one to seventy-four, the cause of abolishing the slave trade was defeated eleven times before its passage in 1807. And the battle for abolishing slavery itself did not gain the decisive victory until three days before he died in 1833. What were the roots of this... Continue Reading

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