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October 29, 2014 By CBMW Guest
By Joey Cochran Men are leaders. As leaders they need to be exceptional exegetes, because exegesis is at the heart of leadership. According to the Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, exegesis means both “to lead” or “to explain” (203). The dictionary clearly points out: “In biblical literature it is always used in the...
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October 3, 2014 By CBMW Guest
By Chap Bettis This is an open letter to young men out there. All types of young men: my twenty-one-year-old son, young men in my church, and more particularly—young men who would like to date my daughters. With one daughter having graduated from college and another in college, I have observed your dateless world. With...
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May 13, 2014 By Candice Watters
by Candice Watters This is the time of year when moms are counting down the days until school ends and summer begins. I’m so ready for a break after a busy school year, I could just breathe a huge sigh of relief, grab a pitcher of lemonade, and head for the nearest hammock in the...
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February 28, 2014 By CBMW Guest
A perennial question in the gender debate concerns how much the New Testament writers adopted the “patriarchal status quo” in their writings and whether they attempted to subvert that status quo through their teachings. When Paul speaks about wives submitting to husbands, was he simply instructing Christians how to live well in their current cultural...
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January 13, 2014 By CBMW Guest
By Jeremy Dys When I see the head of the nation’s largest provider of abortion write in reference to the contraceptive mandate of Obamacare, “No one’s freedom to practice religion is compromised,” I tend to think she is attempting her best Obi Wan Kenobi, Jedi mind trick on the nation. But, this is not Tatooine...
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November 11, 2013 By CBMW Guest
Roeber, A. G. Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2013. 317 pp. $29.00. By Matt Haste Although many credit the Protestant Reformers for restoring the church to a biblical view of marriage, one prominent historian has recently suggested that their...
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