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The Briefing 05-22-13

1. The "Storm of Storms" raises many important worldview questions. Christians should be prepared to give an answer. Crews Search for Survivors in Oklahoma, New...

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  • David Cameron
  • Los Angeles Schools
  • Moore Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma
  • Pornography
  • Problem of Evil
  • Public Prayer
  • Same-Sex Marriage
  • School Suspension
  • Suspension Ban
  • tornado
  • Tumblr
  • Yahoo
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The Goodness of God and the Reality of Evil

Every thoughtful person must deal with the problem of evil. Evil acts and tragic events come to us all in this vale of tears known...Read this essay →
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The Briefing Special Edition: Moore Oklahoma

What is the proper Christian response to the tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma? How do we understand the difference between moral and natural evil? What are...

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  • Moore Oklahoma
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  • Oklahoma City
  • Problem of Evil
  • tornado
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Confessional Integrity and the Stewardship of Words

In the beginning was the Word. Christians rightly cherish the declaration that our Savior, the crucified and resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, is first known as...Read this essay →
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Recommended Reading: The Summer Reading List for 2012

Reading has its own seasons and rhythms. For much of the year, leaders and other busy people put off a great deal of the reading...Read this essay →
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Is the Megachurch the New Liberalism?

The emergence of the megachurch as a model of metropolitan ministry is one of the defining marks of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Megachurches...Read this essay →
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The Ugly American — Sex Trafficking and Our National Humiliation

The sexual revolution of the last several decades has transformed any public conversation about sex and sexuality. The revolutionaries directed their attention to the dismantling...Read this essay →
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The Challenges We Face: A New Generation of Gospel Ministers Looks to the Future

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." [2 Timothy 4:7]  Writing to Timothy, the Apostle Paul...Read this essay →
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The Devil is in the Details: Biblical Inerrancy and the Licona Controversy

It is not enough to affirm biblical inerrancy in general terms. The integrity of this affirmation depends upon the affirmation of inerrancy in every detailed…Read this essay →
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What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument

The evangelical movement in America emerged in the twentieth century as conservative Protestants sought to perpetuate an intentional continuity with biblical Christianity. While the roots...Read this essay →
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A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction

A church that lacks the doctrinal conviction and courage necessary to prosecute an atheist pastor for heresy is a church that lost its Christian identity…Read this essay →
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Is God a Problem? Modern Theology Faces its Alternatives

Their obituaries may have been published side by side, but — in the truest sense — Gordon Kaufman and John Stott were never on the…Read this essay →
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False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up

The denial of an historical Adam and Eve as the first parents of all humanity and the solitary first human pair severs the link between…Read this essay →
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An Unmitigated Theological Disaster — Kirby Godsey Strikes Again

Is God a Christian? presents a trajectory and set of theological arguments that reveal what happens when biblical authority is denied and the faith once…Read this essay →
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False Prophets, False Teachers, and Real Trouble: The Case of Harold Camping

Today’s church cannot remain faithful if it tolerates false teachers and leaves their teachings uncorrected and unconfronted. Harold Camping is not the first false teacher…Read this essay →
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The End is Near? The False Teaching of Harold Camping

The church is not to be arrogantly setting dates, but instead to be eagerly waiting for him. Of that we can be truly certain.Read this essay →
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Why Conservative Churches Are Growing: David Brooks and the Limits of Sociology

What sociology cannot do is deal with the most important question of all — the truth question.Read this essay →
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“A Massive Shift Coming in What it Means to Be a Christian?” — TIME Magazine Considers Rob Bell

The real question is now whether the church has sufficient biblical conviction to resist this doctrinal seduction. Otherwise, it may well be that Rob Bell’s…Read this essay →
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A Theological Conversation Worth Having: A Response to Brian McLaren

We are talking about two rival understandings of the Gospel here — two very different understandings of theology, Gospel, Bible, doctrine, and the totality of…Read this essay →
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We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal Theology

In this new book, Rob Bell takes his stand with those who have tried to rescue Christianity from itself. This is a massive tragedy by…Read this essay →
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Doing Away with Hell? Part Two

The doctrine of hell has recently come under vicious attack, both from secularists and even from some evangelicals. In many ways, the assault has been...Read this essay →
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Doing Away with Hell? Part One

Current controversies raise this issue anew among American Christians and even among some evangelicals. Nevertheless, there is no way to deny the Bible’s teaching on…Read this essay →
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Intellectual Discipleship — Following Christ with Our Minds

A failure of Christian thinking is a failure of discipleship, for we are called to love God with our minds.Read this essay →
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The Christian Worldview as Master Narrative: The End that is a Beginning

The Christian doctrine of eschatology provides the Christian worldview with its mature understanding of history.Read this essay →
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The Christian Worldview as Master Narrative: Redemption Accomplished

The Gospel of Jesus Christ declares salvation and redemption to all who believe in him.Read this essay →
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The Christian Worldview as Master Narrative: Sin and its Consequences

As Christians, we know that the world as we see it contains vestiges of the glory of God that shine through the corruption of the…Read this essay →
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No Buzzing Little Fly — Why the Creation-Evolution Debate is So Important

A buzzing little fly is only a nuisance. The theory of evolution is no mere nuisance — it represents one of the greatest challenges to…Read this essay →
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Must We Believe the Virgin Birth?

In one of his columns for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof once pointed to belief in the Virgin Birth as evidence that conservative Christians...Read this essay →
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