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Speaker: Dr. Bill Mounce
The Bible is one continuous story, and yet a story made up of smaller, pivotal stories that make up the basic structure.
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Speaker: Dr. Bryan Chapell
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Dr. Bryan Chapell explores the unifying principle of grace that binds all Scripture together. He outlines and demonstrates the principles and practice of sermon-crafting and delivery to...
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Speaker: Dr. John Johnson
Strategies are systematic choices about how to carry out the mission and vision, how to deploy resources, achieve goals, maximize strengths and reach the desired outcome.As you choose strategies to...
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Speaker: Dr. Stephen Martyn
Is there a sin that's not deadly? To what extent can you worry about something before it becomes a sin? What does it take to overcome gluttony? The minute you make an exception for yourself...
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Speaker: Dr. John Piper
Irresistable grace means we are brought to the place where grace gives us faith. Conditional talk from God to us should not be taken to mean he is dependent on us to meet the condition or that we...
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Speaker: Dr. Stephen Martyn
It's important to keep Christ at the center of who you are. Interiority includes memory, intellect, will. Augustine says will is most important.In addition to our personal thoughts, we exist in...
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What do we mean by authority? We mean that Scripture has claim to our life and that we submit ourselves to Scripture’s authority. Three aspects of authority – we can see that Scripture is...
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ealdred) (d.1069. Archbishop of York. Previously monk and abbot, he became bishop of Worcester in 1044, was Edward the Confessor's ambassador to Emperor Henry III (1054), and went to York in 1060. He...
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The name given to those who during the Decian persecution (249-51) purchased certificates from the civil authorities which stated they had sacrificed to idols when in fact they had not. The practice...
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UNCIRCUMCISED (ŭn-sûr'kŭm-sīzd, Heb. ‘ārēl, Gr. akrobystia). A word used in both OT and NT in several ways. Literally it refers to one who has not submitted to the Jewish rite of circumcision....
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DINAH (dī'na). A daughter of Jacob and Leah (Gen.30.21), the only one mentioned in Scripture. While sightseeing (Gen.34.1-Gen.34.31) at the city near which Israel encamped, Shechem the prince...
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c.890-973. Bishop of Augsburg. His chief source of fame is that he is known as the first “saint” whose canonization was decreed by a pope (John XV), after an account of Ulrich's life and miracles had...
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A term used generally to describe the position of those who do not conform to the doctrine and practices of an established church. The word “nonconformist” was first used in the penal acts following...
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JAMES, ASCENTS OF. A document mentioned in connection with the Ebionites by Epiphanius (Pan. 30.16), who says it presented James as speaking against the Temple, sacrifice, and the altar fire. It was...
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d. c.367. Intellectual leader of Anomoean* heretics. A Christian tutor to Julian, later the “open-minded” emperor, Aetius was exiled in 358 by...
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1805-1872. French Roman Catholic scholar. Born in Lille, he was irreligious until in 1822 he awoke to the folly of worldly ambitions. He studied theology at Strasbourg, was ordained (1834), was a...
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1513-1566. Roman Catholic theologian who sought to mediate between Catholics and Protestants (especially Anabaptists). Born at Pitthem, near Bruges, he graduated from the Collège du Chateau, Louvain...
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1813-1871. Archbishop of Paris. From humble origins in Fays-Billot, he was curate at St. Dizier, taught at Langres (1839-45), then became chaplain at the Lycée Henri IV where he occupied increasingly...
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1809-1893. Roman Catholic bishop and historian. Born in Unterkochen bei Aalen, he was ordained priest in 1833. After serving in minor academic posts he was called in 1840 to succeed his own teacher,...
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Legislation associated with Bismarck's Kulturkampf directed against German Catholicism. Passed in May 1873 under the direction of Adalbert Frank in the Prussian Landtag, they were based on the theory...
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Two synods held at Orange (Arausio) in S France (Vaucluse) in 441 and 529....
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1858-1914. Pioneer Brethren missionary. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and acquainted with the family of...
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FL. c.418-452. Latin Christian polemicist. Augustine's* grateful response to two anti-Pelagian writings (now lost) submitted to him by Marius places this layman in Rome about 418. Probably originally...
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1920. This Constitutional Amendment instituted nationwide woman suffrage, prohibiting the United States or state governments from denying or abridging citizens' right to vote “on account of sex.” It...
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c.1010-1095. Bishop of Worcester. Ordained before 1038, he held various monastic offices in Worcester before his consecration in 1062-the only bishop, it was said, who obtained his see on spiritual...
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1712-1778. French writer and philosopher. Born in Geneva and raised a Calvinist, he converted to Catholicism in 1728. A former Pietist and his benefactress for the next decade, the French Madame de...
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ar’-vad, ar’-vad-its (’arwadh; Arados; modern Ruad): An island city off the coast of Syria some 30 miles North of Tripolis, and the race inhabiting it. It was a barren rock covered with...
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Lutheran confessional document written in 1529. Probably composed by Luther on the basis of his Confession Concerning the...
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edmund Rich) (c.1175-1240. Archbishop of Canterbury from 1233. After graduating at Paris, he taught liberal arts there and at Oxford (where he was the first to lecture on Aristotle). In 1227 he was...
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Pope from 1655. Fabio Chigi was born at Siena, where he studied philosophy, law, and theology, receiving his doctorate in theology in 1626. He entered papal service at Rome. After being Inquisitor of...
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1509-1580. Bishop of Modena. While bishop of Modena from 1529 Morone became close friends with the group of Catholic reformers gathered around Pole,* Contarini,* Cortese,* and Flaminio. Pope Paul III...
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c.1472-1539. Archbishop of Bologna. At twenty-six he became a doctor of canon and civil law, and he was ordained in 1510 after the death of his wife. He was a great diplomat and became involved in...
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Sanctuaries or asylums, wherein people could find temporary protection, existed among many different peoplese.g., the cities of refuge of the Jews. Christian sanctuaries, first recognized by Roman...
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The main Biblical implications of shaving are as follows:
Cleansing.
Joseph, when summoned to Pharaoh’s presence, may have shaved his whole body to conform to Egyptian ideas of cleanliness (Gen 41:...
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1588-1679. British political philosopher. Trained at Oxford as a classicist, he was a tutor to the Cavendish family, but when the civil war came to England he went into exile in France (1640-51). In...
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1576. Twelve in number, these were adopted by the Lutheran theologians of Germany as “opinions as to how the dissensions prevailing among the theologians of the...
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ACHAICUS (a-kā'ĭ-kŭs, Gr. Achaikos). A Corinthian Christian, named for his country of origin, who accompanied Stephanas and Fortunatus to bring supplies to Paul at Ephesus (1Cor.16.17-1Cor.16.19).
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The “holy mountain” on which developed a famous monastic community. During the tenth century there were two dominant monastic centers in the...
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Those who refuse to submit reason to the control of authority in questions of religious belief. The term which seems to have appeared first in 1692, was used by Deists and other opponents of orthodox...
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TEMPTATION, TESTING (Heb. massâh, Gr. peirasmos). The idea of putting to the proof-from either a good or bad intention-is found throughout the Bible. Thus the Lord often tests his people with the...
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Popularly known as the “Wee Free” Church, it represents the minority of the former...
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JADDUA (jā-dū'a, Heb. yaddûa‘, known). An Israelite prince who had part in making the covenant after the return from Babylon (Neh.10.21).
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michel DE Bay) (1513-1589. Flemish Catholic theologian. Augustinian in outlook, forerunner of and an influence on Cornelius Jansen and Jansenism,* he had been educated at Louvain and taught...