26 Feb 2019

John Calvin: Human Life Begins at Conception

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A few weeks ago I discussed the pro-life position in the DBTS chapel, including the biblical perspective of when human life begins—at conception. I found it interesting to see John Calvin promoting the view that human life begins at conception in an article he wrote against astrology: John Calvin, trans. by Mary Potter, “A Warning...
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18 Feb 2019

Love: An Emotion? A Choice?

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With Valentine’s Day just behind us, lingering questions remain about the concept of love. What is it? Is it a choice? An emotion? Some combination of the two? Or something else? My thesis today is that this perpetual debate continues because we have lost the salient categories necessary to its resolution. I first became seriously...
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14 Feb 2019

2/14/2019 DBTS Chapel: Dr. Tim Miller

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Dr. Miller preaches from Matthew 18 and challenges us that, because of God’s great grace toward us, we must extend gracious forgiveness to others. Download and subscribe to our Podcasts here
11 Feb 2019

The Overrealized Eschatology of Progressive Covenantalism

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I first came across the phrase “overrealized eschatology” in a seminary class on the exegesis of 1 Corinthians. The idea had been suggested by the commentator C. K. Barrett to describe how, in his view, the Corinthian church had mistakenly come to believe that the end times were already fulfilled. Barrett understood the apostle Paul...
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4 Feb 2019

Book Giveaway

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We have five books we’d like to giveaway this week. Here are the books:   Constantine Campbell, Advances in the Study of Greek Victor Kuligin, The Language of Salvation Sam Storms, Packer on the Christian Life John Bolt, Bavinck on the Christian Life Milton Eng and Lee Fields, eds., Devotions on the Hebrew Bible In...
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1 Feb 2019

Miracles: Then and Now (Part Four)

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[This is the final post in the series. See part one, part two, and part three] The Spiritual Gifts for the Church In the spiritual gift lists in the New Testament, some gifts were miraculously endowed and immediately exercised (e.g., healing, tongues, prophesying) and some were non-miraculously, naturally inherited and used (e.g., administrations, helps, teaching). These latter...
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29 Jan 2019

On Reading Larger Portions of the Bible

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A few weeks ago, I suggested that we should read larger portions of Scripture at a time. In this post, I want to consider a few questions pertaining to the issue: 1) why does it seem unnatural to read like this and 2) how, practically, can I read larger portions. On the one hand, reading...
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25 Jan 2019

Miracles: Then and Now (Part Three)

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[See part one, and part two] The Miracles of Jesus Christ John the Baptist (who did no miracle) was the new voice for God to Israel after the four sterile centuries between the testaments. His message concerned the Kingdom of God and the need to repent and make spiritual preparation for it (Matt 3:2). He...
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