Theology
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As I was reading entertainment news last night and surfing the web, I wondered what was going on in the life of one of the planet’s most adventurous and controversial survival show hosts: Bear Grylls. You see, back in March Discovery Channel announced that it had parted ways with Bear over a “contract dispute.” Despite
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I saw a report on ABC’s Nightline last night about an archaeologist, Simcha Jacobovski, who claims to have found a 1st Century tomb in Jerusalem that contains ossuaries (burial bone boxes) with early Christian carvings on them. The carvings, he says, are of resurrection imagery and language, including a reference to Jonah and Jesus and
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Happy Easter! He is risen! He is risen indeed. I had the real joy a few years ago (7! can you believe it?) to preach an “Easter” sermon at Gainesville Bible Church. It wasn’t on Easter proper but during the Easter season. I remember staying up for days studying 1 Corinthians 15, one of the
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“We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made / forged in the fire of human passion, choking on the fumes of selfish rage And these our hells and our heavens are so few inches apart / We are awfully small and not as strong as we think we are.” — Rich Mullins, “Not as
J.C. Newton 