The Pastor As A Scholar - Don Carson from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.
This is a superbly useful talk for all young Christian intellectuals, straight from a world class scholar. God grant us the grace to practice these 10 suggestions.
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The big picture. The fields of theology and biblical studies have for some time now lived in a unique relationship to one another. Anyone who professes or studies the historic Christian faith must admit the mutual dependency these two fields share. You cannot read the Bible without coming to some conclusion about what its authors believed about God (theology). Likewise,
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I was recently posed this question by a mentor: "Does the illiteracy of the church render a truth irrelevant or the church irrelevant?"
The Gospel transcends time. Its relevance penetrates the soul and in its beautiful irony it puts all other ideologies to shame. And yet God chose the church as his agent of truth. 1 Timothy 3:15 honors us while
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posted by Andrew Dragos filed under Bible
In Matthew 23 Jesus is recorded as confronting the religious authorities of his day. The assumptions and practices of the Pharisees were deplorable enough to warrant this rather ruthless denunciation by Jesus in a series known as the 7 woes. Here I gathered their conclusions into forms that might offer a fresh way of understanding his teaching.
You are a gatekeeper
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