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Christocentric Preaching
A Homily Using Edmund Clowney’s Triangle Let us begin with a short homily on Genesis 15:1-6. This homily illustrates the use of Clowney’s triangle of typology, which represents a two-step process: finding the meaning of a symbol (S) in its own...
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The Missions Podcast: 1/19/2020
“People are already at the heart level, committed to a true God or a false god or multiple gods.” –Dr. Vern Poythress Listen to Dr. Poythress discuss “Presuppositional Apologetics in Missions” with Alex Kocman and Scott Dunford on The Missions Podcast.
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Should We Use Analogies to Describe the Trinity?
“God in his character – one God, three persons – is innately mysterious.” –Dr. Vern Poythress Watch Dr. Poythress discuss the question “Should We Use Analogies to Describe the Trinity?” Produced...
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The Missions Podcast 11/10/2019
“In any language of the world – because they’re all gifts of God – in any language of the world you can communicate who God is and what he’s done in Christ.” –Dr. Vern Poythress Listen to Dr. Poythress discuss “A...
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Don’t Disconnect These 3 Vital Facets of Scripture
Who God Is Genesis 1–3 is an account of things that happened in time and space—so it’s a reality of...
by Vern Poythress | 8 min Video
Don’t Try to Make the Bible Say More (or Less) than it Does
Humility Required To the degree that sin remains within us, we all run to find in the Bible what we want it to say rather than what it actually does say. So, that creates...
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“Christianity and Liberalism” and Hermeneutical Presuppositions
“In the sphere of religion, in particular, the present time is a time of conflict; the great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is...
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Understanding Genesis 1–3: An Interview with Dr. Vern Poythress
How can we faithfully read and understand Genesis 1–3? What are the implications related to divine authorship, historical background, genre and structure, and chronology? Bible Gateway interviewed Dr. Vern Poythress about his book,
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Understanding Genesis 1–3: An Interview with Dr. Vern Poythress
Why do you say that how a person interprets the first three chapters of Genesis “has massive implications” for understanding the rest of the Bible? What are those implications? Dr. Vern Poythress: The record of creation and fall in
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The Faithfulness of God in Science
God’s Rule over All But miracles are only the beginning of the ways in which we must reckon with God. The Bible indicates that God is intimately involved in the events of the world. He is involved not only in extraordinary,...