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Oct 29, 2015 · How should a Christian think? What exactly is a Christian thought life? How it is any different from those who are not Christians? How does the gospel impact our very thoughts? These questions and others compelled me to write the following 8 week study on Philippians 4:8:
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- I. What Paul Is Not Teaching: The Power of Positive Thinking.
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I need to focus on this for a moment because the Christian world has been infiltrated with the false teaching of “positive thinking,” popularized by Norman Vincent Peale and, with only slight variations, by Peale’s protege, Robert Schuller. If you are at all familiar with the teachings of these men, you know that they are not Christian in any ortho...
A number of years ago, the news media picked up the story of a woman known as “Garbage Mary.” She lived in a smelly Chicago tenement amid mounds of garbage. She spent her time rummaging through trash cans. She would bum cigarettes off her neighbors. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital after she was stopped for questioning and found to be in a...
Why are Peale’s “Positive Thinking” and Schuller’s “Possibility Thinking” fundamentally opposed to Scripture?Some Christians argue that we need to be aware of what’s going on in our culture through movies, TV, etc. Your response?How should a Christian police officer apply Phil. 4:8when he is daily confronted by moral filth in his job?Someone may argue, “The Bible itself has stories of immorality, etc. What’s the difference between reading it there and watching it on TV, movies, or video?” Your answer?- Christianity is inherently based on real history. The issue with Christianity is that the Bible does not claim that the narratives in it are myths or legends.
- The defense and study of the Christian faith hinges on history. Because Christianity claims itself to be based on history, the defense and study of Christianity hinges on our study of it.
- History serves to remind us of the faith of martyrs. History records the life and death of not only Jesus but also the martyrs who died for his sake.
- History serves to remind us of God’s faithfulness. That God is faithful is a fact that the Bible often reminds us of. However, how do we know that God is really faithful?
Mar 14, 2017 · There are many reasons we ought to teach believers their history. History gives us purpose. History gives us hope. History gives us theological grounding.
- Chris Gehrz
Jan 1, 2024 · Even more alarming, only nine percent of born-again believers in America have a Christian worldview. Probably you’ve see the devastating results of a secular worldview: broken families, wasted lives and ineffective Christians.
Mar 7, 2017 · Bible Gateway interviewed Roger E. Olson about his book, The Essentials of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality Through the Biblical Story (Zondervan, 2017). You write that your book is “an explanation of the hidden background within the biblical narrative.”
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I introduce church history and historical theology to evangelicals through the use of biography, exploring the following nine thinkers: Irenaeus, Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Pascal, and Lewis.
