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Faith & Life
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The Bridge: How to Integrate a Non-Cessationist Perspective With Conservative Evangelical Theology
For decades, we have been conditioned to believe that we must choose between two mutually exclusive silos. On one side stands the fortress of Conservative Evangelical Theology: a world of rigorous exegesis, doctrinal precision, and a high view of Scripture, but often characterized by a "tame" and predictable cessationism. On the other side lies the…
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That Could Never Happen to Me
One of the most dangerous assumptions a believer can make is this: “That could never happen to me.” The generation that went into exile probably never imagined they would become the generation that lost Jerusalem, saw the temple destroyed, and were carried away into Babylon. Yet they did. The tragedy is that they weren’t caught…
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Christianity Today: Can Anger at God be Righteous?
The Psalms show us how to faithfully protest to God. J. Todd Billings| December 28, 2018 After I was diagnosed with cancer five years ago, I returned to the Book of Psalms anew. I started to pray with psalms that I had merely read before or had skipped altogether. While I was receiving intense chemo,…
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Thoughts on Pain (from Jack Deere)
The fact that someone else’s catastrophe is greater than mine has never made my pain feel better. I have never overcome my pain by comparing it to someone else’s pain. I have never overcome my pain by reasoning myself out of it, nor has it helped to seek comfort in some version of theology that…