1. The Bible and How to Read It. Part 1: What is the Bible?

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    09/07/21
    16 mins
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    By Kyle G. Jones
    A famous saying of Augustine (echoing Jesus in Luke 24:44) perhaps puts it best, “The New Testament lies concealed in the Old, the Old lies revealed in the New.”
    The Bible and How to Read It. Part 1: What is the Bible?

  2. A Visit with the Transfigured Voice

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    09/03/21
    27 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    A seed grows the kingdom of God. A whisper eventually turns the world upside down. A carpenter’s son from nowhere becomes the Savior of everyone. Such is God’s way.
    A Visit with the Transfigured Voice

  3. Eve: A Most Holy Woman, Full of Faith and Love

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    09/02/21
    10 mins
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    By Sarah Crowder
    Today, we begin a short series profiling women in the Bible (Who are not named Ruth or Esther). Both the stories of Ruth and Esther are beautiful, gracious, and profound. We love reading and rereading them. However, in an attempt to bring attention to more stories of more women throughout the Scriptures, we choose now to shift our focus. Our first woman, is, the first woman herself: Eve.
    Eve: A Most Holy Woman, Full of Faith and Love

  4. John Locke, Reason, and Revelation

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    08/30/21
    10 mins
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    By Roland Ehlke
    Despite his trust in empiricism, throughout his life, Locke never entirely let go of the inspired Scriptures—or perhaps more accurately, the Scriptures never let go of him.
    John Locke, Reason, and Revelation

  5. The Mountainous Gospel of God

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    08/23/21
    28 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Calvary is our mountain of pardon. It is the place which reveals most definitively God’s plan to redeem and reconcile sinners to himself.
    The Mountainous Gospel of God

  6. Eat and Drink

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    08/04/21
    10 mins
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    By Cindy Koch
    God will give you more than you can handle. But he doesn’t leave you alone. Not at all.
    Eat and Drink

  7. The Rock of Truth in the Storm of Fake News

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    07/30/21
    22 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The Psalms aren’t the clandestine successes of a faithful soul, but are the journaled hopes of a desperate soul — of one teetering on the edge of oblivion.
    The Rock of Truth in the Storm of Fake News

  8. A Q&A for The Christ Key: Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament

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    07/20/21
    15 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    The Christ Key: Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament by Chad Bird is now available to order
    A Q&A for The Christ Key: Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament

  9. Pencil Sketches: How Old Testament Individuals Outlined the Messiah's Colorful Life

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    07/16/21
    12 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    When we read about Noah, we are reading backward to Adam and forward to Jesus.
    Pencil Sketches: How Old Testament Individuals Outlined the Messiah's Colorful Life

  10. Come to the Waters of Repentance

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    06/28/21
    18 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Mankind’s “thoughts and ways” on the matter of pardon and forgiveness do not even come close to exhausting, let alone fathoming, God’s “thoughts and ways.”
    Come to the Waters of Repentance

  11. Have No “Great Expectations” of Your Pastors and Christian Leaders

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    06/27/21
    9 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Our leaders, our pastors, our priests, our teachers, all have feet of clay, just as leaders in Israel did. We do not put our faith in them, even in the ones—perhaps *especially* the ones—in whom we are inclined to have great expectations. They preach the Messiah but are not the Messiah.
    Have No “Great Expectations” of Your Pastors and Christian Leaders

  12. The Psalms as the Prayerbook of Jesus and the Church

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    06/25/21
    16 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    As the sin-bearer, Jesus was also the sin-confessor in the psalms.
    The Psalms as the Prayerbook of Jesus and the Church
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