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Experience--Not Language

Christianity is not, and never has been, about finding the right combination of words! It is about encountering the living and loving God.


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Different Views of Scripture

One group comes at Scripture as a technical book, a legal guideline. The other sees it as spirit, an indicated direction.


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The Gospel Above All

In 1934, the Confessing Christian church in Germany spoke out against the rise of what was called "German Christianity," inspired by Nazism. ...


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A Social Researcher's Faith

[O]nly a fool would argue that the church should change its doctrine to keep up with the times. One does not arrive at moral judgments by counting noses. ...


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Orthodoxy Can Be Boring

Too much of our orthodoxy is correct and sound, but like words without a tune, it does not glow and burn; it does not stir the heart; it has lost its ...


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Truth Sets Us Free

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without ...


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The Drama of Dogma

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man--and the dogma is the drama. That drama is summarized quite ...


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The Importance of History

How shall we labor with any effect to build up the church, if we have no thorough knowledge of her history, or fail to apprehend it from the proper point ...


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Unfit for Persecution

The greatest criticism of the Church today is that no one wants to persecute it: because there is nothing very much to persecute it about.


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Some Things Stay the Same

The church's core mission never changes, but how it's accomplished is up for revision.


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