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Understanding How We Ever Got So Crazy

While Carl Trueman discourages any direct comparisons to C.S. Lewis and his book The Abolition of Man, it is not hard to see why many do make that comparison. Trueman, in the opinion of this reviewer, is serving the church in a similar way as Lewis did, helping us make sense of the world around us in times of great social upheaval. Christians in every age need to understand how, why, and towards what the culture’s moral intuitions are changing. Trueman borrows the term social imaginary to describe those intuitions. At the root of the change, as Trueman has described...

Bob MacGregor

Raised on the Third Day According to the Scriptures

Ian Vaillancourt

Near the end of his first letter to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul summarizes what he deems to be “of first importance”: “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to [numerous people whom Paul names in 1 Cor 15:5–8]” (1 Cor 15:3-5). In this passage, we find four key words about Christ: He died, was buried, was raised, and appeared. This is the gospel in a nutshell—and a great sermon or Bible study outline!...

Baptist History: A Story Worth (Re)Telling

Christian Clement-Schlimm

I’m grateful to be living in a time when “theological retrieval” is a common topic in Christian discussion, when historical theology is considered cool by the bible college students I meet, and when evangelical pastors openly read and quote the early church fathers. Yet I’m less enthused by the way Baptists seem to fit into this growing conversation. In recent years, it feels like hardly a week passes without a Baptist pastor announcing he has become Presbyterian, a Baptist scholar explaining on Substack he has become Anglican, or a young Baptist layperson uploading a 2-hour documentary chronicling their journey into...

On the Apostolic Preaching

Steve Lambert

Sometimes Christians forget how ancient Christianity is. Sure, we all know that Jesus lived, died, and rose again 2,000 years ago, but we forget that for the past 2,000 years there have been Christians worshipping Jesus, thinking about Jesus, living for Jesus, dying for Jesus, and writing about Jesus. The world of the earliest Christians is distant and foreign to us living so much later, but it is a world worth exploring! I would recommend On the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus of Lyons as a good starting point. There is a good modern translation of On the Apostolic Preaching in...

We Can Disagree Better

Scott Hurst

Let’s begin with a little self-reflection. Have you ever disagreed with someone? Have you ever handled a disagreement poorly? Everyone’s hand should be up by now, so let me ask one more question. What would you give for disagreement to deepen friendship instead of destroying it? Whether it’s with your spouse, your kids, co-workers, or that frustrating member of your church (which might just be you), no one can avoid disagreement. And we can all grow in the art of disagreement. Gavin Ortlund has written a short and useful book, The Art of Disagreeing: How to Keep Calm and Stay...

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