Give thanks for the little things

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by Bob Wilkin Yesterday I heard a good sermon by Luis Rodriguez. Speaking from Psalm 100 he said that we should be thankful people. All. The. Time. We should thank the Lord for everything, for our food, our housing, our jobs, our health, our families, and so forth. Luis is right, of course. As children
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“Come After Me”

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Introduction What did Jesus mean when He said, “Come after Me”? The expression “come after Me” appears four times in the NT, all in the Gospels (Matt 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; 14:27). All but one of those involves the verb erchomai, I come. The exception is Mark 8:34 where akoloutheō is used. The latter
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Does Free Grace Theology Diminish the Gospel? A Review of Wayne Grudem’s “‘Free Grace Theology’: Five Ways it Diminishes the Gospel”; Part 1

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Bob Wilkin Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society I. INTRODUCTION Dr. Wayne Grudem, professor of theology and Biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary, is the author of an influential and best-selling book on systematic theology.1 He has written over twenty books, including books on a Biblical view of politics, Biblical manhood and womanhood,2 Christian
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1 & 2 Thessalonians

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1 & 2 Thessalonians. By Andy Johnson, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. 349 pp. Paper, $26.00. I was not familiar with the expression missional hermeneutic before I read this commentary. After reading it I’m not quite sure what that is. Johnson, Professor of NT at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, is not writing a
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