Archive for Reading/Study

Timeless Truth in Ancient Greece: Biblical Archaeology Brings the Word to Life

From the Dec. Issue of Pulpit Helps 
Secular culture has a hard time with the Bible. Scholars desperately try to disprove and devalue it by claiming that it is neither historical nor literal because there are severe implications for those who don’t believe if this book is truly the Word of God.
Unbelievers often cling to these […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on November 9th, 2009
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Perspectives

Last night was the first class session of Chattanooga’s semester of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, U.S. Center for World Mission’s outstanding college-level missions course. I’m taking it for both personal and professional reasons, and I’ve been told all along that this course “will change your life whether you want it to or not.” I […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on August 17th, 2009
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On Writing . . .

I’ve just finished my column for the June issue–8th in the series “Taken Captive: Cultural Heresies and the Church” (not posted here for obvious reasons), and I’m reminded again how difficult it is to string together 1,000 or so words in a fashion that is neither “dead on paper” nor so alive that it tinkers with […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on April 14th, 2009
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Facing the Temptations of Leadership:A review of Nouwen’s In the Name of Jesus

In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, Henri J.M. Nouwen, Crossroad, 1993, 107 pages, $14.95, softcover.
If you have not encountered the work of Henri J.M. Nouwen, you are missing an incredible opportunity to deepen the spiritual understanding of your faith - his writing has a prophetic, soul-piercing quality seldom found in modern Christian […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on March 31st, 2009
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“Let Our Doctrine Be Tested . . .”

“For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by Him, the slaves of sin that He may give us freedom, blind that He may enlighten, lame that He may cure, […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on March 25th, 2009
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Ligonier

The staff is back from our three days at Ligonier Ministries national conference in Orlando. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting many of you there, and hopefully many new friends as well (if the 331 trial subscription sign-ups are any indication).
Sitting under the teaching of such theologians as R.C. Sproul, Sinclair Ferguson, Alistair Begg, and D.A. Carson […]

Posted by Justin Lonas on March 23rd, 2009
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