Keller entitled chapter one “There Can’t Be Just One True Religion.” If you have ever been stumped in witnessing to a skeptic, then this chapter will load your gun with armor piercing bullets. Keller addresses the first of seven objections, defearter beliefs, which skeptics fire at Christianity. Remember from last week’s review how Keller defined [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Second Book Review of Keller’s “The Reason for God” Part One: Exclusivity
Posted: December 31, 2008 in Book Reviews, SalvationTags: Apologetics, Skepticism, The reason for God, Tim Keller
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Is Israel’s Fight with Hamas Prophecy?
Posted: December 30, 2008 in NewsTags: Day of the Lord, Hamas, Israel, Posttribulational Rapture, Pretribulational Rapture, Terrorism
By IBRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN Associated Press Writers GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israel’s air force obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of its overwhelming assault on Gaza on Monday, striking a house next to the Hamas premier’s home, devastating a security compound and flattening a five-story building at a [...]
The Providence of God and the Great Commission (Expository Sermon on Jonah One)
Posted: December 26, 2008 in SermonsTags: God's providence, J. Vernon McGee, Jonah, Sermon of Jonah one
THE providence of God has been described as the hand of God in the glove our circumstances. Certainly Romans 8:28 allows for that description. We know that God sovereignly works in the lives of the obedient child of God as demonstrated in the life of Joseph who said to his brothers, “You thought evil against me [...]
Can sinners be saved in the Tribulation who heard the gospel before the Rapture?
Posted: December 26, 2008 in End Time EventsTags: "Left Behind", Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord, postribulationist, pretribulationistist, Rapture, Salvation, Thomas L. Constable, Tribulation Period
CAN sinners who heard the gospel and are “Left Behind” at the Rapture be saved in the Tribulation Period? Anxious people have been asking this question since the first century. Have you ever asked this question? Because of the persecution the Thessalonians were enduring, they had been deceived into thinking they had missed the rapture and [...]
Do Angels Play Zone or Man to Man?
Posted: December 23, 2008 in Angels & DemonsTags: Angels, David Jeremiah, Guardian angels, Hinduism, Millard Erickson, New Age Movement, Robert Lightner, Thomas Aquinas
DO you believe you have a personal guardian angel? Many people think they do. For that matter, a certain woman in western Canada is said to have a special gift involving angels. If you give her your full name along with $200, she claims that she will put you in touch with your guardian angel. [...]
First Book Review of “The Reason for God”
Posted: December 22, 2008 in Apologetics, Book ReviewsTags: Add new tag, Apologetics, Daniel Dennett, evolution, James Dobson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Skepticism, The reason for God, Tim Keller
Have you ever struggled with doubt? I mean doubt in God. His goodness, fairness, or love because of the pain you were suffering or the disappointment you were experiencing. James Dobson talks about the awesome “Why?” The first time in your life you seriously questioned God. I was a high school senior taking biology with my [...]
Reviewing Doug Pagitt’s “Preaching Re-Imagined”
Posted: December 18, 2008 in Book Reviews, Homiletics/PreachingTags: Doug Pagitt, Emerging Church, Homiletics/Preaching, preaching, Preaching Re-Imagined, progressional dialogue, sermon, speaching
Doug Pagitt’s altered view of preaching is presented in Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith. Speaching is what Pagitt derisively calls historic preaching or one way communication by the pastor. Pagitt admits candidly: “As the pastor I’m often referred to as ‘the preacher.’ And frankly, this is a role I no [...]
Is There a Gift of Exorcism Today?
Posted: December 17, 2008 in Angels & DemonsTags: Add new tag, Exorcism, Spiritual Gifts
Some extremely bizarre and radical behaviors accompany some of today’s so-called exorcisms. A fifty-one-year-old Chicago woman called the police after she had been severely bruised and beaten by her husband and by a Presbyterian minister. Why had they abused her? They said they were trying to rid the woman of evil spirits. In the Los Angeles [...]
What is the Eschatology of Islam?
Posted: December 12, 2008 in End Time EventsTags: End Time Events, Islam
Islam has three major principles. One principle is called tawhid which has to do with the unity of Allah. Another principle is nubuuwa or prophecy. But the principle called Qiyamah is the principle of eschatology. Most of the information concerning Islamic eschatology comes not from the most sacred of Islamic books, the Qu’ran, but from [...]
