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He offers helpful words on the incident with the blind man in John 9:1-3 and how we should think about providence and calamity. 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God has placed my family and I upon a path featuring an unusual motley of Christian traditions throughout the years. I was raised an Arminian Baptist,…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/book-review-1-e1592408271675-1024x568.jpg","width":1024,"height":568,"alt":""},"minutes":4,"seo":{"title":"Truth, Unity, and Triage: A Book Review of Finding the Right Hills to Die On","description":"This is a book review of Finding the Right Hills to Die On by Gavin Ortlund. 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Christ’s command to his disciples, “Go ye…and make disciples…” (Mt 28:19) was not exclusively for the crowd to whom Jesus was then speaking,…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1500021804447-2ca2eaaaabeb-e1592166734199-1024x568.png","width":1024,"height":568,"alt":"Light over city"},"minutes":6,"seo":{"title":"Making the Gospel Known: Ichabod Spencer","description":"One example of an effective strategy to making the gospel known was the 19th-century preacher and author, Ichabod Spencer (1798–1854).","image":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1500021804447-2ca2eaaaabeb-e1592166734199.png"}},{"id":405,"slug":"jesus-and-justice-reflections-on-george-floyd","title":"Jesus and Justice: Reflections on George Floyd","date":"2020-06-10T07:00:00Z","modified":"2024-05-02T19:16:43Z","author":"Allen Nelson","categories":["culture","theology"],"excerpt":"by Delano Rolle George Floyd, a 46-year old black man, was arrested on May 25th 2020 for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes at a deli. 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Nelson IV William Buell Sprague’s 1832 book* Lectures on Revivals of Religion seeks to both promote the cause of genuine revival in churches and to guard against “a spurious excitement” (p. xiii). 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Obviously, there is much to learn from Surgeon’s ministry at the Pastors’ College, but it is the relationship between the college and his church, The Metropolitan…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1498079022511-d15614cb1c02-e1587403387765.jpg","width":645,"height":358,"alt":"Man in Academic Dress"},"minutes":3,"seo":{"title":"The Relationship Between the Local Church and the Seminary","description":"The following is an excerpt from Spurgeon’s autobiography recalling the meeting notes of the adoption of the seminary and Mr. Spurgeon’s response revealing a healthy relationship between the local church and seminary.","image":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1498079022511-d15614cb1c02-e1587403387765.jpg"}},{"id":160,"slug":"pastoral-distress","title":"Pastoral Hardships","date":"2020-04-20T07:00:00Z","modified":"2020-04-19T06:51:56Z","author":"Allen Nelson","categories":["pastoral"],"excerpt":"by Billy Crow Spurgeon in Distress The pastor is certainly not immune to pain. Some of the greatest sermons from one of the greatest preachers were born from times of great distress. Note the words of Charles Spurgeon: “Some of you may be in great distress of mind, a distress out of which no fellow-creature…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1428592953211-077101b2021b-e1586806777639.jpg","width":667,"height":370,"alt":""},"minutes":5,"seo":{"title":"Pastoral Hardships","description":"Pastors must be prepared to suffer for the cause of Christ. Some of the finest times of ministry can be produced in these seasons of distress.","image":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1428592953211-077101b2021b-e1586806777639.jpg"}},{"id":204,"slug":"gbts-values","title":"GBTS Values","date":"2020-04-17T07:00:00Z","modified":"2020-04-19T02:44:58Z","author":"Allen Nelson","categories":["gbts"],"excerpt":"by Danny Thursby To know Grace Bible Theological Seminary (GBTS) you must understand the values that inform and shape our ministry. The following characteristics are not unique to GBTS as there are, thankfully, several seminaries that share these emphases or have even been exemplars to follow. We do not desire to be unique for the…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1481624362406-b7817fa45ecf-e1587091105547-1024x568.jpg","width":1024,"height":568,"alt":""},"minutes":4,"seo":{"title":"GBTS Values","description":"GBTS does not desire to be unique for the sake of being unique, though there are qualities that make us distinct. We simply want to be faithful in the calling that the Lord has given us. 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Nelson IV Most of us are familiar with Mordecai’s question to Esther in Esther 4:14 – “And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” It seems to me that Mordecai had a healthier understanding of God’s providential care for His people than many…","image":{"src":"/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/photo-1501139083538-0139583c060f-e1586806907803-1024x569.jpg","width":1024,"height":569,"alt":""},"minutes":4,"seo":{"title":"Such a Time as This: Introducing Grace Abounding","description":"Throughout church history, seminaries (and its previous forms) and doctrinal/theological writing have functioned as two sides of the same coin. Producing doctrinal resources with an ecclesiological aim is our goal with Grace Abounding. 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