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GPN Dr. Howard Hendricks – Unit 1 – Why Study the Bible?
Dr. Howard Hendricks gives important reasons to study the Bible.
The Intolerance of Tolerance
There is no neutrality. If tolerance trades on neutrality, tolerance is in trouble. Everyone is intolerant of someone else’s’ beliefs. Everyone has an absolute belief in truth that causes them to be intolerant of another’s beliefs. This is not wrong but necessary. We should tolerate everyone but not everyone’s ideas. There must be the freedom for everyone to speak and promote their ideas, beliefs, truths in the marketplace of ideas. Though we should tolerate people we must agree that not all worldviews, statements of truth are equally right. There is nothing hateful or intolerant to say that one’s view is
Introduction To Theology #4 – Postmodern Epistemology
Session Overview Why is truth devalued in our culture today? What is Postmodernism? We live in a different world than we did just 20 years ago. People think differently today about the reality and nature of truth. Your truth is your truth, my truth is my truth-they are both right is a comon belief that we encounter in our Postmodern culture. Why are people thinking in such a manner? By the end of this session, the student should have a better understanding of the history of man’s search for truth, learning that the Postmodern view of truth (that truth is relative)
Intro to Theology – Session 3 – Categories of Theology
Session Overview What is systematic theology? What are the common mistake that people make with regards to doing theology? How important is it that one use a theological process that is testable? This session presents the different categories in which theology is done. The student should gain a greater understanding of what systematic theology is by understanding its relation to biblical, apologetic, historic, dogmatic, and philosophical theologies. A basic understanding of the theological process is introduced. The student should leave with an understanding that biblical theology must be done with great integrity, asking what did the text mean in its
Two e-books on Biblical Theology (On Sale)
What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and Pattern Author(s): James M. Hamilton Jr. Publisher: Crossway Books Price: $3.99 (Aug 30-Sept 5) Audible Deal: N/A How Do You Read the Bible? The Bible recounts a single story—one that began at creation, encompasses our lives today, and will continue till Christ’s return and beyond. In What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton introduces us to this narrative, helping us understand the worldview of the biblical writers so that we can read the Old and New Testaments as those authors intended. Tracing the key patterns, symbols, and themes that bind the Bible together,
Introduction to Theology – Session 2 – Defining Theology
Session Overview What exactly is theology and who is a theologian? Why are there so many bad theologies out there? Are you a Tabloid theologian, believing everything you hear? Or are you a more skeptical theologian, who won’t believe anything? This session will cover the different methods and commitments, good and bad, that people bring to their theology causing them to be a good theologian or a bad theologian. During this session the student will be persuaded that everyone is a theologian because everyone has theological persuasions and convictions, even if they don’t realize it. The student will have to
GOD’S KINGDOM THROUGH GOD’S COVENANTS: A CONCISE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY, by Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum
God’s Kingdom Through God’s Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum Crossway, 2015 304 pagesGospel Growth Books (Kindle) Gospel Growth Books (Paperback) Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel The thesis that biblical revelation hinges on a succession of historical covenants is not new, but just how that successive revelation is to be understood and how those covenants relate to each other, of course, remains a point of debate that results in our differing hermeneutical and theological systems. SBTS professors Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum have now streamlined their 2012 Kingdom Through Covenant to
Thick Gospel Vs. Thin Gospel
Growing A God-Centered Evangelism When one things about evangelism and reaching people with the Gospel one must look to the Centrality of sovereign, saving grace because the quickening grace of God in salvation completely exalts God. Grace is God-honoring and humanity-humbling. We must see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a “Thick Gospel” and not a “Thin Gospel. “ You may be asking, What in the world is a “Thick Gospel“? We all know that God initiates grace and that this grace frees us from the rejection of others in Evangelism. We know that evangelism is impossible without grace, for grace is
Kathie Lee Shares Touching Tribute To Husband Frank Gifford and His Faith in Jesus Christ | TODAY
Kathie Lee Gifford returns to the cohost seat for the first time since her husband Frank passed away and shares how she and her family are coping with the loss and the personal and touching story of how his faith shaped his life. I amen what Pastor Wade Burleson says, There are a few occasions when I am taken by surprise with public expressions of faith in Christ by God’s people. This morning was one of those occasions. Kathie Lee Gifford gave a clear testimony of the importance of receiving God’s grace in the Person and work of Jesus Christ.
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Glenn Leatherman
I am first of all a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ. I affirm Evangelical Christian beliefs as well as Gospel driven in philosophy of ministry. I am married to Ann and am raising 2 wonderful boys – Jonathan and Andrew. My purpose is to build disciplemaking disciples that are becoming fishers of men in fully displaying of God’s Glory in all things. Learn more