June 30, 2014
[An audio version of this is available here.] Contemporary visitors to Palestine rarely, if ever, find the Jordan River imposing. It seems relatively shallow, not very wide, and quite calm. Wading across does not seem like much of a problem–except that it would take one from the modern state of Israel into the modern state […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Baptism, Heaven, Inheritance, Jordan, Jordan River, Joshua, Joshua 3-4, Joshua 3:1-17, New Earth, New Heaven |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 3, 2012
The Bible Banner, edited by Foy E. Wallace, Jr. with a masthead reading “Devoted to the Defense of the Church Against All Errors and Innovations,” had a profound impact on Churches of Christ in the 1930s-1940s. Whether it was for good or ill depends on whether one thinks the theological movements and consensus achieved in that era, […]
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Theology | Tagged: Bible Banner, Bollism, David Lipscomb, Foy E. Wallace, Heaven, New Creation, Premillenialism, R. H. Boll |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 16, 2010
What is salvation? In my first post in this series I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the sixth sector (6). Past Justification Present Sanctification Future Glorification Personal Forgiveness of Sins and Relationship with God (1) Moral (Inner and Outer) Transformation (2) […]
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Theology | Tagged: Community, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Eschaton, Fellowship, Glorification, Heaven, Intimacy, Kingdom, Salvation, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks