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Jul 24, 2020
7 min

"You Are Not Able to Serve the Lord"

Joshua 24:19 is an interesting verse, but many people (including myself) have often read over it without really stopping to think about...

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Jul 23, 2020
2 min

A Quarantine Library

One of the challenges many students and professors around the world have faced during the various stages of lockdown and quarantine is...

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Jul 21, 2020
19 min

Covid, Christians, & the Civil Magistrate

It is now a little over four months since various lockdowns and quarantines began in the United States in response to the spread of the...

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Jul 20, 2020
9 min

The Unseen Realm: My Two Cents

Several weeks ago, Tim Challies mentioned a review of a book by Michael Heiser titled The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural...

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Jul 18, 2020
1 min

Hymn of the Cherubim

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is best known for works such as the 1812 Overture and ballets like The Nutcracker and Swan Lake....

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Jul 17, 2020
9 min

Lord of the Rings: The Peter Jackson Remix

It has now been almost twenty years since the release of the first film in Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Lord of the Rings. Those...

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Jul 16, 2020
3 min

Facebook & Twitter MMORPG

NOTE: To a certain extent, this (somewhat tongue in cheek) post builds on what I wrote a few days back in another post entitled A Social...

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Jul 15, 2020
5 min

Progressive or Conservative?

When I was a student at Dallas Theological Seminary in the first years of the 1990s, I had a friend who was studying to become a pastor...

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Jul 14, 2020
4 min

Loving God and Studying Theology

One of the questions I face as a professor of systematic theology at the undergraduate level is whether theology is compatible with a...

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Jul 13, 2020
6 min

How Joshua Completes the Exodus

One of the many literary features found in the Bible is the phenomenon of the inclusio. An inclusio brackets a portion of Scripture by...

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