A lot has happened in the last year. I became a member of a mainline church, though we cannot attend very often with our little kids, and my wife’s disability—there simply isn’t enough time in the weekend for me to keep up with chores, and some Sundays my wife is just in so much pain […]
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In keeping with the theme of refuting dispensationalism, I wanted to post this link to an article about the secret rapture theory from a Reformed Baptist perspective, written by Brian Schwertley in 1999. He writes, Whenever a Christian encounters a doctrine that has not been taught by anyone in any branch of Christ’s church for
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There’s a whole lot of eschatological fervor out there, with the civil war in Libya, the earthquake in Japan a couple months ago, Harold Camping’s yet-another-failed-prediction of the date and time of Judgment Day, and Obama’s speech on Middle East diplomacy. There are a lot of Evangelicals who are quick to admit that Harold Camping
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Kim Riddlebarger takes a crack at the meaning of the First Resurrection in Revelation 20, and also discusses the “already and not yet” aspect of our “already raised” status in Christ. Sounds familiar. 😉 “The Age of the Holy Spirit” (mp3) I know some of you will appreciate this.
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Richard Gaffin, quoted by Rev. Kim Riddlebarger in A Case for Amillenialism: The unity of the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers is such that the latter consists of two episodes in the experience of the individual believer—one which is already past, already realized [e.g. Col. 2:12: “having been buried with him in
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You may remember my recent post about the “Evening of Eschatology” at Bethlehem Baptist. Justin Taylor posted recently on What You Must Believe if You Are a Premillennialist, and included a lengthy chapter (really too long for a blog post) reprinted from a Sam Storms work-in-progress. Then Jim Hamilton posted a rebuttal, reiterating his argument
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Here are some mp3s so you can hear Kim Riddlebarger make his Case for Amillennialism on your iPhone/iPod: Kim Riddlebarger on SermonAudio.com Kim Riddlebarger on IIIM One of the highlights for me was during the Q & A where he said the Reformed church he planted has special pastoral needs because most of the congregation
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