Wheaton Professor Finds a Fashionable Solidarity

Posted on Monday, December 14, 2015 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

The priviledges of selective solidarity...

A political science professor at Wheaton College is proudly donning a hijab during the Christmas season to demonstrate her “solidarity with Muslims.” One expects to see such nonsense at secular universities. But at the “Christian Harvard”?

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The Word before All Words - Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Jesus as the Word

This is certainly a season to think about the birth of Christ. This week we’ll

focus in on who Jesus is—not a little baby in a barn, but the God of Creation.

Scripture: John 1:1-4

Each year in the weeks or months before Christmas I look over the list of what I have preached about on previous Christmases to see if there are any significant texts I have overlooked and to pick a new set of topics. And when I did that this year I made an interesting discovery. I discovered that in all my years of preaching I have never preached a Christmas message from the opening chapter of John’s gospel, the chapter that begins: “In the beginning was the Word” (v. 1).

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Posted 12/14/15 by Donald Barnhouse

Near the Kingsport Press in Tennessee a southbound bus makes a scheduled midday stop of twenty minutes so that passengers may freshen up and get a bite to eat. One driver said, as he brought his bus to a stop: "Folks, we'll be stopping here for twenty minutes. This line makes it a strict policy never to recommend an eating place by name, but if anybody wants me while we're here, I'll be eating a wonderful T-bone steak with french fries at Tony's first-class, spotlessly clean diner directly across the street."

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The New Testaments Use of the Old Testament Podcast

by Jonathan Master • December 13, 2015
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This week on Theology on the Go, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Greg Beale, who is currently a professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.    He has also served been on the faculty of Grove City College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Wheaton College.  He also served as the president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004.  On this installment of Theology on the Go, Dr. Beale talks with Jonathan about the important topic of the New Testament's use of the Old Testament.

This week on Theology on the Go, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Greg Beale, who is currently a professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.    He has also served been on the faculty of Grove City College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Wheaton College.  He also served as the president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004.  On this installment of Theology on the Go, Dr.

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The Extra-Ordinary

by Matthew Holst • December 11, 2015

The Word, sacraments, prayer and discipline are often called the ordinary means of grace. They are the ordinary or usual means that God uses to grow us in both the knowledge and grace of Christ our Lord. As we, by faith, put ourselves under them, God blesses us. His Spirit works faith, repentance, assurance, joy--whatever is needful in us--to his own glory and our strengthening. It is in the word, sacraments and prayer, that we come face to face with the holy God of heaven and earth, the appalling wretchedness of our own sin and the glorious grace of God in Christ Jesus.

What makes the church special? I don’t mean what makes a church special, there may be many answers to that question. What makes the church, the church of Jesus Christ truly special? The answer is simple: The church is the only place on the face of the earth where God reveals his glorious splendor and grace in a manner that no other institution or experience can hope to do so.

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Five Reasons Why Eschatology is Particularly Pastoral

by Jeffrey Stivason • December 11, 2015
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Sometimes the language of Scripture seems strange.  We don't quite understand it all.  However, a little patience will often produce some good exegetical fruit.  Take eschatology for example.  This is a word which can mean "last."  But it can and often does mean more. 

Sometimes the language of Scripture seems strange.  We don't quite understand it all.  However, a little patience will often produce some good exegetical fruit.  Take eschatology for example.  This is a word which can mean "last."  But it can and often does mean more.  For instance, it can and does mean "ultimate things."  Eschatology is about ultimate things. Let me give you an example.

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Common Grace - Part 5

By James Boice

Theme: When Bad People Misuse Good Things

This week’s lessons teach the doctrine of common grace, and how it should lead people to the praise of God and, through saving grace, to faith in Jesus Christ.

Scripture: Isaiah 26:10

This brings us to the final text I want to consider in this study of common grace. It is Isaiah 26:10:

Though grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil
and regard not the majesty of the Lord.

This brings us to the final text I want to consider in this study of common grace. It is Isaiah 26:10:

Though grace is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil
and regard not the majesty of the Lord.

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Haste, Post, Haste!

Posted 12/11/15 by Donald Barnhouse

Not many people who use the word "posthaste" realize that the word goes back to the time of Henry VIII. During the reign of "bluff King Hal," postmasters and relays of horses for carrying messages were established at the principal towns in England. The postmasters endorsed each letter with the exact time each missive was delivered to them. The messengers were sometimes rather irresponsible people who delayed to play games with acquaintances in inns or to waste time in some other way. On this account a very drastic law was put into effect - every dispatch carrier should "ride for his life"; this had a literal meaning, for the penalty for delaying en route was hanging.

Haste, Post, Haste!

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Who'll be there?

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Which authors will be present at the book signing?

I see there is a book signing in Moscow, Idaho, today and tomorrow.  I wonder, which of the authors will be there to put their John Hancocks on the title page?  Greg Bahnsen and Ellen G.

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Neglected Grace

by Mark Johnston • December 10, 2015
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‘Grace’ is one of the most treasured words in the vocabulary of Reformed Christianity. For many, the defining contours of this framework for understanding the Bible are called ‘the doctrines of grace’. But like so many Bible words, it is often both undervalued and underappreciated – not least by those who like to use it most.

‘Grace’ is one of the most treasured words in the vocabulary of Reformed Christianity. For many, the defining contours of this framework for understanding the Bible are called ‘the doctrines of grace’. But like so many Bible words, it is often both undervalued and underappreciated – not least by those who like to use it most.

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