What’s a ‘portmanteau’? (scrabble players not allowed to answer) Jesus preached the gospel and he sent the apostles out preaching the same gospel. But preaching the gospel didn’t mean explaining every last detail of his death and resurrection every time they preached. Nor did it mean saying exactly the same thing every time they spoke. …

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Well, according to this quote from Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur (posted by Tim Challies) all we need to do is start browsing to find out. …the inspiration behind this book comes from …, T.H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the “infinite monkey theorem.” Huxley’s theory says that if …

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John Calvin wrote it; Justin Taylor provided line breaks for formatting and Tullian Tchividjian posted it on his blog with this introduction: A while back, a friend of mine sent me this nugget of gospel gold from John Calvin. It comes from a stunning preface to Pierre Robert Olivétan’s French translation of the New Testament …

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