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Dryer-Fresh Smell

Frank Turk

Iโ€™ve been watching Christopher Benson take up on behalf of BioLogos this last period of time โ€“ I guess itโ€™s over a couple of weeks now, but blogging distorts...

โ€œSpecial Meaningโ€

Frank Turk

by Frank Turk So you know: Pack a lunch. And before you read a single word of this post, I require of you that you read this post, by...

The other foot of Jesus

Frank Turk

You know: the subject of Godโ€™s love is not an either/or question in the face of orthodoxy. Itโ€™s not either you think God loves men or you have the...

eBook recommendation: the Infidel Delusion

Frank Turk

There have been a slough of books recommended here at Evangel in the last month of so โ€” and to buy them all youโ€™d need a small fortune. But...

The Gray Area

Frank Turk

Well. Hello. Iโ€™ve been away for a while โ€” work and other commitments have limited by blogging overall, and sadly my availability for Evangel has been one of the...

Bias #3 and the Gospel

Frank Turk

Because itโ€™s important to be transparent about biases before one starts a review like this, I have at least 3 going into this blog post:

How Filthy Rags come back in style

Frank Turk

While I have a minute today, I have been working through James Davison Hunterโ€™s To Change the World along with another book which I think is the right theological...

Song that everyone knows they donโ€™t know

Frank Turk

A few words before you watch this video. 1. The point is obvious, and itโ€™s been said before, but to see it in this high production value should make...

A Pastoral Standpoint

Frank Turk

I have no idea how long ago I received my review copy of Abide by Jared C. Wilson, but it has had me on a guilt trip every since...

A short bit about Hell

Frank Turk

Before closing the last thread on bashing Calvinism, I noted this as one of the comments: If it is contended that people go to Hell because God elects them...

HT: Challies

Frank Turk

Great link from Challies at SBTS โ€œThe Towersโ€, from Chuck Lawless, Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism. Seven sure-fire ways to blow up a church....

Pastoral

Frank Turk

So as a lead-in to the chapter-by-chapter reviews Iโ€™m going to do on the two books I recommended this weekend, let me ask you to consider something: what do...

The Surprising Offense

Frank Turk

The other book Iโ€™m reading right now is the latest from 9Marks ministries, by Jonathan Leeman,The Church and the Surprising Offense of Godโ€™s Love: Reintroducing the Doctrine of Church...

To Change the World

Frank Turk

Got this book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity Today, in the mail Thursday night, and for those following on FB and Twitter you...

A Dangerous Man

Frank Turk

The people and their leaders all took Jesus to Pilate and began to bring up charges against him. They said, โ€œWe found this man undermining our law and order,...