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Proverbs 31

March 19, 2009

The last chapter of Proverbs is best-known for it’s section on the “virtuous wife” – that ideal woman of dreams. But she is actually the third of three sections in chapter 31.
Like in chapter 30, we know nothing of Lemuel or his mother, except that he was a king and that God’s people recognized him/them [...]

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Baptism, Part 5

February 3, 2009

This is the last post in a series on water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we explored what water baptism is and how the early church performed it. Part 3 introduced the teaching that water baptism can provide salvation – a teaching that we thoroughly debunked in Parts 4a, 4b, and 4c.
Based on [...]

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Baptism, Part 4a

January 28, 2009

We’re working through a study of water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we saw that water baptism in the New Testament was used as a public expression to identify a person as a believer in Jesus Christ. The early Christians baptized people by immersing them in cold, flowing water (like a river or [...]

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Baptism, Part 3

January 24, 2009

We are looking at the biblical teaching of water baptism. So far we have established:

The word “baptism” means “immersion” or “to dip under” (Baptism, Part 1)
The earliest Christians all baptized people by plunging them fully under water(Baptism, Part 2)
Water baptism is a public symbol that a person has new life through Jesus Christ, and immersion [...]

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Listen, Day 22: Acts 23-28

October 5, 2008

This concludes the first five books of the New Testament. Here are some updated stats about where we are now (as of Sunday’s listening):

we are over one-half (55%) of the way through by days (22 of 40)
we are 45% through the chapters (117 of 260)
we are still less than one-fifth (18%) through the books of [...]

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