Missing the Boat on Faith

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Truth Aflame is a Charismatic and Evangelical systematic theology written by Larry Hart, who is professor of theology at Oral Roberts University. I have the first edition. There is a second available here.  I was skimming through what he wrote about faith.  Hart starts off well:  “It is through faith alone—faith plus nothing—that we are
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The Good and the Evil

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  Q. Doesn’t John 5:28-29 show that doing good works is a condition of salvation? How do you understand it? A. Good question. Taken on its own, that can be a puzzling passage. You would think “the good” refers to good deeds, and “the evil” refers to sins. But is that right? There’s a theme in
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After Just One Drink

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  by Diane Boring, originally published in the July/August 2013 edition of Grace in Focus Our Ladies’ Bible Study is going through the Gospel of John, and right now we’re in John 4—the encounter that Jesus had with the woman at the well. I’ve come to see that this is one of the greatest passages
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