Thomas Overmiller What do preaching, teaching, and sleeping have in common? All three occur in the story of Eutychus, the man who fell out of the third story window listening to Paul (Acts 20:7-12). This brief narrative stirs the curiosity of any attentive reader and raises the question, “What is the point of the story?” …
Read MoreGerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the fourth part of five. Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 Part 1 points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? Part 2 argues that music is moral since it originated in God and thus its…
Read MoreMore excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three “The church fathers recognized music’s power to calm the passions (negative sense). But Evagrius meant something more profound than what ‘easy-listening’ or dentist-office music calls to mind when he said, ‘Psalmody lays the passions…
Read MoreDavid Potter This post is the third in a series concerning the life and ministry of Mihály Kornya, the Peasant Prophet, who preached the Gospel for more than 30 years in Hungary and Romania. (Part One; Part Two) Dauntless As Kornya entered a village where he was scheduled to preach, he saw two men standing…
Read MoreDisable the Distractions that Destroy Your Time with God Rand Hummel But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matthew 6:6 But you . . . You is…
Read MoreA few stories from around the web that might be of interest: Re: Louis Giglio With Ousting Of Pastor, Media Engage In Anti-Christian Witch Hunt “I’m not complaining about this depressing turn of events. But something seismic happened at the beginning of this week: as a country and culture we’ve crossed a Rubicon. “And that’s…
Read MoreGerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the third part of five. Part 1 • Part 2 In Part 1, Dr. Priest points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? In Part 2, Dr. Priest argues that music is moral since it originated in God…
Read MoreThis week we offer a bit more of Calvin R. Stapert in his book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts can be found here and here. “Several themes that we have heard somewhat faintly in the second and third centuries become very strong in the fourth. Two of these will be prominent…
Read MoreThis post is the second in a series concerning the life and ministry of Mihály Kornya, the Peasant Prophet, who preached the Gospel for more than 30 years in Hungary and Romania – (Part 1 here). We know that Kornya’s evangelistic work started early. In the oldest roster of members of the Salonta church, Kornya…
Read MoreDon Johnson I recently had the opportunity to teach a college class called Exposition of Proverbs. Proverbs is a much loved book, but I discovered that it is not a book without controversy. This was a surprise to me. The controversies of Proverbs center around the composition, author, and date of the book. Having read…
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