Suppose that you became a Christian in the second century A.D. You’ve heard the story of a divine being who died on a cross and rose from the dead. Through baptism, you’ve openly identified yourself with his followers. Now, you want to learn more about this deity. Yet you quickly realize that some people who […]
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Church History: Why Should Anyone Care About Church History?
The following is part of an interview I did with Baptist Press related to my book and DVD-curriculum, Christian History Made Easy. Professor Timothy Paul Jones acknowledges that plenty of people view the study of history as boring–full of drab facts and dates they’d rather forget. But Jones says it shouldn’t be that way, and he’s […]
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Church History: How Christianity Happened
Easter is certainly a time for celebration, but it is also a time for solemn reflection. We fast and reflect during the season of Lent, then we celebrate the joy of the resurrection on Easter sunday. But what about after Easter? What then? The church has traditionally recognized the season following Easter as a time […]
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Apologetics: Did Christians Create Their Faith Or Did the Faith Form Christians?
What factors actually formed the New Testament and the faith of the early church? Conspiratorial reconstructions suggest that church leaders selected texts that preserved and expanded their own political powers. If so, what shaped the early church were books and theological beliefs that were chosen with the goal of control. The problem is, the […]
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Church History: The Legacy of William Wilberforce
March 25th marks the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain. In 1807 the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, eradicating the inhumane export of African slaves throughout the Empire. About 25 years following that, slavery would be completely outlawed within the British Empire. The major contributor to this movement […]
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Church History: An Interview with Tom Nettles on the Prince of Preachers
On January 31, 1892, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed from this life. More than a century later, he remains one of the most widely-read preachers ever. In Living By Revealed Truth, Dr. Tom Nettles distills more than a decade of his own study into the text that now stands as the premier biography of Spurgeon. Here […]
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Apologetics: Was the New Testament Miscopied?
Family Ministry: Family Discipleship in the Middle Ages and Reformation
With the dawning of imperial favor in the early fourth century and the crumbling of the Roman Empire in the fifth, the primary locus of Christian practice drifted from homes to dedicated institutional structures. Especially in the early Middle Ages, there appears to have been a loss of the ancient model for discipleship in families. […]
[Read More...]Apologetics: What Blinds People to the Gospel?
Family Ministry: An Ancient Christian Perspective on Family Ministry
This model for family ministry not only began before Paul’s generation but also persisted far beyond the lifetimes of the first followers of Jesus. Didache and Letter of Barnabas provide summaries of Christian practices that date to the first and second centuries A.D. Both of these writings include an identical command for parents—a command […]
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Apologetics: Dealing with Discrepancies in the Biblical Text
The content that I present in this video may also be found in my book Misquoting Truth. (c) 2008 Coral Ridge Ministries. Used by permission. Click here to purchase full DVD.
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Church History: The Real Story of Santa Claus
Today, St. Nicholas is mostly known as a paunchy old geezer who spends one night each year breaking into people’s houses and stealing cookies before escaping to an Arctic hideaway where elves do his work for him. Kind of creepy when you think about it. The good news is that none of this was what […]
[Read More...]Apologetics: What Historical Proof Do We Have for the Life of Jesus?
Christianity.com: Beyond the Bible, what historical proofs do we have when it comes to the life of Jesus?-Timothy Paul Jones from christianitydotcom2 on GodTube.
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Family Ministry: Your Children and the Hobbit Films
With the much anticipated release of the newest Hobbit film, parents might be asking, “Is this movie okay for my children?” It’s a legitimate question to ask. In a recent interview with Mike Nappa, I walk through various facets of the film and challenge parents to think critically and Christianly. If you are wrestling […]
[Read More...]Apologetics: Four Views of the End Times
Four Views of the End Times Session 1 from Rose Publishing on Vimeo.
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Apologetics: What is Apologetics?
Church History: How Did the Many Marriages of Henry VIII Change the History of Christianity?
Culture: The Value of a Life in Panem [from 2012 review of The Hunger Games]
“The future shape of the world,” Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler has noted, “appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western secularism.” The Hunger Games film and books present us with a world where the worldview competition is over in North America, and Western secularism has won. Centuries in the future, the […]
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Theology: Want to know more about the end times? Here’s help!
What does the Bible say about the return of Christ? What about all those prophecies from the Old Testament? What is the millennium? Have you been struggling with sorting out all the views of the end times? Not sure where you land? There is a resource that will help! For a limited time, Rose Publishing […]
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