Posted Friday, Jan 06, 2012 Joe Bartemus in Category Church History
Well, it is that time again. I am going to Southern Seminary in Louisville next week for a full, intensive week of study. The topic is church history. I have had to read and write a lot in preparation—actually I am still reading and will be until Monday morning—you ...
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Posted Friday, Nov 04, 2011 Joe Bartemus in Category Church History
We move into the first week of November and it feels like the year is flying. Actually it is soon to be over. November 1 follows October 31—what a profound deduction. In our culture (at least in my neighborhood), we celebrated a notorious and very active holiday (whatever ...
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Tags: church history, reformation
Posted Friday, Mar 11, 2011 Dustin Crowe in Category Church History
Think11 proved to be a great weekend as we gathered together and heard the gospel explained. Dr. Carson unpacked the tragedies and glories of the cross and resurrection, reminding us how bleak our predicament was outside of Christ and how amazing God’s provision was in Christ. ...
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Tags: revival
Posted Friday, Jan 21, 2011 Mark Vroegop in Category Church History
It never ceases to amaze me how much the past sounds like the present. In helpful ways church history provides an informative backdrop, especially when it comes to controversial issues.
A few examples:
Hymns were rejected at first as a poor substitute for Psalter songs (singing the ...
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Tags: experience meetings, small groups, william williams, martyn lloyd-jones
Posted Monday, Nov 01, 2010 Don Helton in Category Church History
October 31 is a date that usually conjures up images of costumed children scurrying about leaf-covered sidewalks as they collect candy from neighbors, but there is a much grander reason to get excited about the last day of this colorful month.
October 31 is Reformation Sunday. It commemorates the ...
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Posted Thursday, Oct 21, 2010 Jeff Ballard in Category Church History
In his own day, John Calvin (1509 – 1564) had great admirers and bitter enemies with very few in between. On one hand, his detractors in Geneva named their dogs after him, and a popular jingle of the day went like this: “Better to be with Beza in hell than with Calvin in ...
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Tags: john calvin, reformation, glory of god
Posted Friday, Oct 08, 2010 Dustin Crowe in Category Church History
Martin Luther once wrote, “We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see further than they….we take their choice thoughts, buried by the age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life.”[1] In the modern ...
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