“And in the morning, behold, it was Leah!” On November 24 I posted an article about the Manhattan Declaration. At that stage it had 73,000 signatories, now it has 217,000. While the document seemed a positive and needed statement, later examination suggested that everything was not necessarily as it should have been. Just think of …

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A few weeks ago I said that Christless Christianity by Michael Horton was an ‘unremarkable book’. I still think that is true. There have been others like it in the recent past. John MacArthur’s ‘Charismatic Chaos’ and Hank Hanegraaf’s ‘Christianity in Crisis’. Horton has written some himself. These sorts of books point out that something …

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Nathan Clarke goes to Ghana to explore the forms that the prosperity gospel takes in that West African nation as a discussion starter for The Global Conversation’s exploration of the Prosperity Gospel. The video was posted on the ‘Out of Ur‘ blog, part of the Christianity Today publishing group. The video explains what the Prosperity …

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Over the last twenty to thirty years the reformation doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone has been subject to reformulation by different figures. The Church of Rome and the Lutheran Church produced a joint statement about justification in the 1990’s. As much as I can tell, the document affirms that if certain …

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