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Continue reading →: The Righteousness of God as defined by the New Perspective on Paul Refuted by Lee IronsThe three pillars of the New Perspective on Paul are as follows according to Lee Irons who wrote a blog post for Logos on May 28th of 2019 (which appears to be no longer available). However, Thomas Schreiner wrote a great review of Irons’ dissertation on The Gospel Coalition’s website…
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Continue reading →: Paul’s Prayer in Ephesians 1, Its Context, and What it Means for UsThe reason I took up this particular passage, which has been a passage we used in both our daughters’ dedication ceremonies, is because this prayer and the one in chapter three were both prayers that my Uncle James said that he would pray for me. Uncle James is like a…
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Continue reading →: An Evaluation of Larry Crabb’s Marriage BuilderLarry Crabb wrote a book called The Marriage Builder, and this is my review of the underlying theological themes that I think are at the center of his understanding of what builds a happy marriage in one of his chapters. That is not to say that he has not helped…
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Continue reading →: Was Jesus a Pharisee?The Pharisees were really more of a political party than they were a separate sect. However, they appealed to very religious aspects of life and the theology of the people in that they emphasized that the people remain Jewish in the midst of the secular culture of that day. They…
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Continue reading →: Ministry to Stepfamilies in our ChurchesThe two articles entitled, “Ministering to Stepfamilies” and “Pre-Stepcouple Counseling: A Sample Session Format” written by popular Christian counselor, Ron L. Deal, are found on Ron Deal’s website called SmartStepFamilies.Com. They are illustrative of the mentality that Christian counselors typically have towards counseling. Christian counselors who are often integrationist, have…






