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2 years

My dear wife Mary Grace went to be with the Lord around noon today. Over 600 of you were praying for us, and today God answered your prayers. Thank you all for joining us in that. Mary is rejoicing among the heavenly family, the church triumphant.

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Both my dear wife and I are COVID-positive. She still struggles with the ramifications of brain cancer. So I solicit your prayers again.

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Requesting prayer for my dear wife Mary, in rehab after brain cancer surgery Dec. 3.

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Gentleness is not usually one of the first qualities we look for in a pastor. In fact, I think gentleness is one of those Christian virtues that falls through the cracks when we’re evaluating ourselves and others.

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We are not saved by works, but we are certainly saved for works.

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Don’t lose your sense of humor. We should take God seriously, not ourselves, and certainly not theology. To lose your sense of humor is to lose your sense of proportion. And nothing is more important in theology than a sense of proportion.

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What is the resurrected Christ doing — right now? He is interceding at the Father’s right hand. Even now, he is thinking of us, bringing our needs to the Father’s attention.

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As I get older, I am less and less impressed by people, including theologians, who think they have everything figured out. 1/

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#YoungTheologians Value your relationship with Christ, your family, and the church above your career ambitions. You will influence more people by your life than by your theology. And deficiencies in your life will negate the influence of your ideas, even if those ideas are true.

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I believe the NT teaches that the teaching and ruling offices in the church, that is, the eldership, are limited to men. 🧵

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Mercy in Scripture is directed particularly toward those like widows and orphans who cannot help themselves, who haven’t the power in society effectively to advocate their own case. Who, then, are more fitting objects of mercy than the unborn?

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People sometimes say that Scripture is sufficient for theology, but not for other areas of life, like science, history, plumbing, politics, car repairs. But that idea misunderstands the sufficiency of Scripture. Remember always:

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Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

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Probably what has changed most about me as I’ve aged is my sense of the mysteriousness of it all. I’ve always felt a deep sense of mystery, but now that sense has moved to the center. And I have less and less sympathy with people who think they have it all figured out.

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1/2 Young theologians often imagine themselves as the next Luther, just as little boys imagine themselves as the next Peyton Manning or Kevin Garnett. When they’re too old to play cowboys and Indians, they want to play Luther and the Pope. When the real Pope won’t play with them,

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God ordains prayer as a means to change history. There are things that happen because of prayer, and things that do not happen because of no prayer.

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We hear the titles of Israel, kingdom of priests and holy nation, again in the NT, in 1 Pet. 2:9, where the apostle says, “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession.” So the NT church, like OT Israel, is God’s own special people, 1/

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Scripture is clear that there is no continuing sacrifice and cannot be. Jesus’ atonement is final and complete. There is no other sacrifice for sins. It needs no continuation, repetition, or supplementation.

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P&R has released probably my last book #ConciseTheology , a reworking of #SalvationBelongsToTheLord w/a lot of helps from highly respected friends of mine. John Hughes is the main editor, plus Poythress, Ferguson, Childers @pathwaylearning . I pray God blesses it to all of you.

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2/2 they pick on somebody else and say, “You’re it.” Look: most likely God has not chosen you to be the leader of a new Reformation. If he has, don’t take the exalted title “Reformer” upon yourself. Let others decide if that is really what you are.

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I did not know @timkellernyc well, but we had several conversations and had a lot of common concerns. He was a wonderful preacher and pastor, and God enabled him to work through the incredibly complicated social and cultural currents of New York. 1/

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1/ We need more Christians who will lead lives of repentance. For repentance always challenges pride. If you’re coming to God daily to confess to him how much you have sinned, you will find it hard to pretend that you are holier than everybody else. You’ll find it hard

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We need to rethink worship in every generation. What Calvin and the Puritans did for their time, we must do for ours. Let me make this point emphatically: Sola Scriptura does not mean traditionalism. It doesn’t mean adhering blindly to the models of the past. 1/

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At [83 now], I look at both types of theology with sadness and amusement. God is not here to motivate our rationalistic quest. God is Lord of heaven and earth. He comes to drive us to repent of sin and embrace Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 5/5

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#YoungTheologians Guard your sexual instincts. Stay away from Internet pornography and illicit relationships. Theologians are not immune from the sins that plague others in the church.

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My top five books on apologetics: 1. @CSLewis , Mere Christianity 2. Cornelius Van Til, Christian Apologetics 3. @timkellernyc , The Reason for God 4. Vern Poythress, Redeeming Science 5. William Edgar and Scott Oliphint, eds., Apologetics Past and Present (2 vols.)

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Apologetics confronts unbelief in the believer as well as in the unbeliever.

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1/3 When there is a controversy, don’t get on one side right away. Do some analytical work first, on both positions. Consider these possibilities: (a) that the two parties may be looking at the same issue from different perspectives, so they don’t really contradict;

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#YoungTheologians In criticizing other theologians, traditions, or movements, follow biblical ethics. Don’t say that somebody is a heretic unless you have a very good case. Don’t throw around terms like “another gospel.” (People who teach another gospel are under God’s curse.)

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The biblical text has been far better preserved than any other ancient document. There are far more ancient manuscripts of Scripture & Scripture portions than manuscripts of the religions of Greece, Egypt, and Babylon, more than manuscripts of the Greek philosophers and poets. 1/

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As a Christian, I am committed to a worldview that comes from the Bible: God the Creator, the world as his creation, man made in his image, sin and its consequences as our predicament, Christ’s atonement as our salvation, his return as the consummation of all things.

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The writing of Scripture is once for all, but God continues to speak to us through Scripture day by day.

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People violate sola Scriptura, not by asserting that there are truths to be found outside of Scripture, but by claiming that there are extra-biblical words that have the same authority as Scripture, or higher.

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Oct. 9: first anniversary of Mary’s passing. Request prayer.

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Mary is home now, doing well, but awaiting radiation and chemo. Thanks to all who have prayed.

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7 years

Last class.

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#YoungTheologians Don’t be reflexively critical of everything that comes out of a different tradition. Be humble enough to consider that other traditions may have something to teach you. Be teachable before you start teaching them. Take the beam out of your own eye.

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Value your relationship with Christ, your family, and the church above your career ambitions. You will influence more people by your life than by your theology. And deficiencies in your life will negate the influence of your ideas, even if those ideas are true.

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A theologian is essentially a preacher, though he typically deals with more arcane subjects than preachers do. But be a good preacher. Find some way to make your theology speak to the hearts of people. Find a way to present your teaching so that people hear God’s voice in it.

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As I get older, I am less and less impressed by people, including theologians, who think they have everything figured out.

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As long as we regard some non-Reformed churches as true churches, we may not at the same time assume we have nothing to learn from them. These are fellow-members of Christ’s body, called and gifted by God for ministry. In them is the teaching office.

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To defend the Christian faith with a quarrelsome spirit is to defend Christianity plus quarrelsomeness.

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#YoungTheologians Respect your elders. Nothing is so ill-becoming as a young theologian who despises those who have been working in the field for decades. Disagreement is fine, as long as you acknowledge the maturity/contributions of those you disagree w/. Take 1Tim 5:1 to heart.

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Why do we need theology in addition to Scripture? The only answer, I believe, is “because we need to apply Scripture.”

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Peter urges apologists to keep “a clear conscience,” so that those who slander them will be “ashamed.” It is interesting that Peter does not urge apologists to be intelligent and knowledgeable (although such qualities are certainly helpful), but to lead consistently godly lives.

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The basic point to be remembered here is that no kind of knowledge from outside the Bible is worthy to be added to Scripture. That includes the traditions of the Roman church, claims of contemporary prophets, and even the confessions & traditions of the Protestant denominations.

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Theology should be focused where the Bible is — on the gospel of Christ.

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Reformed theology has often distinguished between the special teaching office, which consists of the ordained elders, and the general teaching office, which includes all believers. 1/

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We should copy not only what Jesus says, but the way he says it.

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Faith is not “belief in the absence of evidence”; rather, it is a trust that rests on sufficient evidence.

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Scripture is sufficient as the word of God. It gives us all the words of God we will ever need. So Scripture contains all the word of God we need for theology—but also for ethics, politics, the arts, plumbing and car repair.

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Don’t destroy people’s reputations by misquoting them, quoting them out of context, or taking their words in the worst possible sense. Be gentle and gracious unless you have irrefutable reasons for being harsh.

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All our use of Scripture depends on our knowledge of extrabiblical data. Scripture contains no lessons in Hebrew or Greek grammar. To learn that, we must study extrabiblical information. Similarly, the other means that enable us to use Scripture,

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Theologians readily confess God’s incomprehensibility as a doctrinal point, but often they go on from there to write as if they had that ultimate and final knowledge that belongs to God alone. We need to get over the idea that theology takes all the mystery out of the world. 2/

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Cultivate an intense devotional life & ignore people who criticize this as pietistic. Pray w/out ceasing. Read the Bible not just as academic text. Treasure opportunities to worship in services & prayer meetings. Give attn to your spiritual formation, however you understand that.

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Audible version of ‘A History of Western Philosophy and Theology’ is free.

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A biblical ethic, in my view, will sometimes seem “conservative” and sometimes “liberal” in comparison with most polite society.

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[Regeneration] is a divine act, causally and temporally prior to any human thought or act. So there is no reason to suppose that this blessing is given only to adults or to people of a certain level of intellectual maturity.

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1/ The Reformed community needs to look at emotions much more positively, as the Bible does. There is no reason for us to disparage or try to dampen emotions in the Christian life, or even in worship.

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God is the standard of his own actions. He is not subject to human judgment; on the contrary, our judgment is subject to his Word. Once we are thus clear on our epistemological situation, we can be assured of God’s good character, for on that matter the Word of God is clear.

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Be generous with your resources. Spend time talking to students, prospective students, and inquirers. Give away books and articles. Don’t be tightfisted when it comes to copyrighted materials; grant copy permission to anybody who asks for it. Ministry first, money second.

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#YoungTheologians Be willing to reexamine your own tradition with a critical eye. It is unreasonable to think that any single tradition has all the truth or is always right. And

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#YoungTheologians Don’t become known as a theologian who constantly takes potshots at other theologians or other Christians. The enemy is Satan, the world, and the flesh.

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In conservative theology, writers tend to confess mystery, but then go on to meticulously explain such things as the order of God’s decrees and the inner activities of the Trinitarian persons without any clear biblical basis. 3/

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Remember that the fundamental work of theology is to understand the Bible, God’s Word, and apply it to the needs of people. Everything else—

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Scripture does say some things about murder, and about unborn human life. When we bring the biblical principles together with our extra-biblical knowledge of what abortion is, it becomes pretty obvious that “thou shalt not murder” implies “thou shalt not abort.”

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A few years ago there was a debate in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) on the nature of confessional subscription. Some argued for strict subscription, in which an officer must subscribe to every statement in the confession.

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It is impossible to exclude absolute certainty in all cases. Any argument purporting to show that there is no such certainty must admit that it is itself uncertain. Further, any such argument must presuppose that argument itself is a means of finding truth.

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Liberal writers say that conservative theologians claim too much knowledge of the mysterious God, but then they go on to explain in great detail what government programs God demands of us to help the needy—again, without biblical basis. 4/

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In the New Testament, in Jesus’ Great Commission of Matthew 28, the movement of God becomes fully “centrifugal,” moving outward to all the nations of the world. This expansive mission reinforces the importance of the changes in law...

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Maybe you love ppl but don’t know how to correct in a gentle way, w/out harshness/hurting. If so, find someone who can serve as a model/teacher; it’s tremendously important. & for the sake of our Lord Jesus & the love of his sheep, stay out of the pastorate until you’ve learned.

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Much of the Trinitarian teaching in the NT comes in contexts where the writers wish to enumerate the richness of the blessings of salvation: see, e.g., John 17:3; 1 Cor. 12:4–6; Eph. 3:5–7; 4:4–6; 2 Thess. 2:13–14; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 5:5–6.

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Certainly for all these disciplines we need knowledge from outside Scripture too. That’s even true of theology. Theologians need, for example, to know the rules of Hebrew Grammar; but Scripture doesn’t give these to us. They need to know the history of the ancient world;

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Periodic reminder. When there is a controversy, don’t get on one side right away. Do some analytical work first, on both positions. Consider these possibilities:

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The perseverance of the saints. This doctrine does not teach that everybody who makes a profession of faith is eternally saved. Scripture is fully aware that some professing Christians apostatize, turn away from the truth. Judas Iscariot is the paradigm case. 1/

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Skeptics must be skeptical of their own skepticism.

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Thanks to all of you who prayed. We are through COVID, and Mary will be moved to a residential care center in Oviedo.

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Both my dear wife and I are COVID-positive. She still struggles with the ramifications of brain cancer. So I solicit your prayers again.

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Nobody would have expected to see a solid, large Reformed church to arise in New York, but God made it happen. I deeply admired Tim and loved the fruits of his ministry. 2/

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The chief message of the OT is “God is the Lord.” The chief message of the NT is “Jesus Christ is Lord.” To say that God is Lord is to say that everything else is his servant. The relationship between Lord and servant is called covenant.

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R. C. Sproul and I were born two months apart, in the same city, Pittsburgh. Both of us were profoundly influenced by John Gerstner. RC went to Pittsburgh Seminary to study with Gerstner; I went to Westminster to study with Gerstner’s teachers.

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God ordains that crops will grow, but not without water and sun. He ordains that people will be saved, but (ordinarily) not without the teaching of the Word. And he ordains that we will have everything we truly need, but not without prayer.

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The most serious epistemological mistake is, typically, to assert one’s own autonomy: to make oneself, or something other than the biblical God, the final standard of truth and right.

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In my heart, I wish there were no need for creeds or for the denominations that subscribe to them. Denominations are always to some extent the result of sin, of party spirit. 1/

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In my judgment, strict subscription violates the sufficiency of Scripture. It prevents any teaching in the church that contradicts the confession. Thus, in effect, it recognizes no difference in authority between the confession and the Bible itself.

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Value your relationship with Christ, your family, and the church above your career ambitions. You will influence more people by your life than by your theology. And deficiencies in your life will negate the influence of your ideas, even if those ideas are true.

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When we show love to the poor, both inside and outside the church, we show the love of Christ in a wonderfully eloquent way. When we ignore people’s needs, that places a stigma on the work of the gospel.

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Now, of course, prayer doesn’t change the eternal plan of God. But within that eternal plan are many plans for means and ends.

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Worship, in the narrow sense, is mainly for believers. But in 1 Corinthians 14:20–26, Paul talks about an unbeliever who visits the worship service. He tells the worshipers that their service should be clear enough, edifying enough, so that “he is convicted by all, 1/

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One reason why textual problems do not affect biblical doctrine is that they are almost always minor, as I’ve said. Another reason is that Scripture is highly redundant, in a good way. The doctrines of the Christian faith are never derived from a single text. 1/

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NOW AVAILABLE – Concise Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief by John M. Frame.

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My deepest condolences to Tim’s family and the Redeemer congregation. 3/3

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but Scripture only gives us part of that history. So in order to use the Bible, we need to know things outside the Bible. That’s also true in ethics. For example, the Bible doesn’t mention abortion. We have to learn what abortion is from extra-biblical sources. But

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The fall is not a derangement of faculties within man. It is rebellion of the whole person—intellect as much as emotions, perception, will. My problem is not something within me; it is me. I must take the responsibility, unless Jesus Christ takes that responsibility in my place.

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In the NT, Jesus pronounced the blessing of God on infants (Luke 18:15–17). Jesus wasn’t just showing affection for the babies. Blessing is a very serious matter in Scripture. In blessing, God places his name on his people, as the high priest did in Numbers 6:27. 1/

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When believers in the OT experienced “circumcision of the heart,” or when they were Jews “inwardly,” they were partaking of the power of the new covenant.

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The history of philosophy and theology is nothing less than spiritual warfare in the life of the mind.

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I did not marry until I was forty-five. God was preparing someone special.

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The apostolic office does not continue today, but we still have elders and deacons. The deacons are primarily concerned with the ministry of mercy. The elders carry on ministries of both teaching and rule, some emphasizing the one, some the other.

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The church is not an academic debating society, not a place where one seeks by whatever means to prove himself right and to prove the other guy wrong. It is, above all, a place where we care for one another as nursing mothers care for their babies.

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