Spiritual Gifts: What They Are & Why They Matter

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Spiritual Gifts: What They Are & Why They Matter. By Thomas R. Schreiner. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2018. 172 pp. Paper, $16.99. This book is very irenic in nature. Thomas Schreiner says that the issue of spiritual gifts is not a “first-order” doctrine (p. 2). Devout Christians can have different opinions. He was at
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Racism, Southern Seminary, and the Perseverance of the Saints

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Kenneth W. Yates Editor I. INTRODUCTION In December 2018, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, released its “Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary”(hereafter RSR).1 As the title suggests, the RSR deals with how in its past Southern Seminary and its leaders were involved in the issues
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Jeremiah and the Tickling of Ears (Jeremiah 42)

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We are all familiar with Paul’s warning to Timothy that the time would come when the believers Timothy is serving will want their ears tickled (2 Tim 4:3). In other words, they will want to be told what they want to hear. We are all prone to that problem. We don’t like it when the
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No Excuse, Sir! (1 John 4:20–5:5)

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I attended a military college after high school. The freshman year introduced us to military life and placed upon us many rules that a civilian would consider strange. For example, if an upperclassman asked you “why” you were doing something, the answer was always, “no excuse, sir!” It didn’t matter if you had a valid
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The Glory of the Lord (Mark 9:2-3)

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By Ken Yates One of the exciting things about studying the Bible is that no matter how long we have been studying it, we can always learn something new. We have all studied a passage we have examined many times before and see something in it for the first time. I had such an experience
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