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Ligonier Connect: The World’s Largest Christian MOOC?
from David Murray Mar 06, 2013 Category: Ligonier Resources
Last week Tim Challies and I launched a class on Ligonier Connect. This class now has over 1,200 people signed up from 49 different countries. Keep Reading -
How Can I Explain the Trinity to a Child?
from David Murray Mar 01, 2013 Category: Articles
Last week, I took part in a Google Hangout at Ligonier's 2013 National Conference. One of the questions I was asked was, "How can I explain the Trinity to a small child without moralistic illustrations or logical arguments over their head?"
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10 Reasons to Hope (When All Seems Hopeless)
from David Murray Feb 04, 2013 Category: Articles
When discouraging and depressing news threatens to flood the nation, the church, and the soul, we need God's help to lift up our heads, hearts, and hands.
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7 Ways to Live Positively in a Negative Culture
from David Murray Nov 30, 2012 Category: Articles
We live in an increasingly negative culture and it's easy to be dragged down with all the discouraging and depressing events that flood our hearts and overwhelm our minds.
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6 Practical Reasons to Study Eschatology
from David Murray Sep 28, 2012 Category: Articles
Harold Camping has a lot to answer for, not least that his outlandish views about the end of the world have increased skepticism, even among Christians, about the value of studying eschatology. Let me try to win you back by providing six practical reasons for studying the Bible's teaching on the last things.
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How to Astonish the World
from David Murray Aug 29, 2012 Category: Articles
The world is not easily astonished or amazed. Human beings have accomplished and achieved so much that even a mission to Mars is so, "Whatever." The latest films resort to more and more outlandish plots and extreme effects to grab and grip attention. The tsunami of digital media has hyper-stimulated us into numbness.
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Does Proverbs teach “the Health, Wealth, and Prosperity Gospel?”
from David Murray Aug 03, 2012 Category: Articles
Does Proverbs teach "the Health, Wealth, and Prosperity Gospel?" It certainly contains multiple promises of health, wealth, and prosperity to those who live wisely. However, there's an eternity of difference between the Prosperity Gospel and Gospel Prosperity. Let me give you five statements that will help clarify that difference.
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6 Reasons to Read “God in Our Midst”
from David Murray Jul 09, 2012 Category: Reformation Trust
Like me, you probably have been disappointed by many books on the Old Testament. The covers look great, the titles sound enticing, and the blurbs appear exciting. But one chapter in and you begin to flag. They are so boring, so academic, so impractical, and so suitable for your large pile of "read-one-chapter" books. Keep Reading -
Practicing Affirmation
from David Murray Jul 04, 2012 Category: Book Reviews
I'm amazed that Sam Crabtree's Practicing Affirmation has not had much wider "affirmation." As John Piper says in the foreword, it's a "one-of-a-kind book." Do you know any other book that deals with the subject of how to praise others and to do so as a habit of life? No, neither do I; and yet, as Sam demonstrates, it's a topic with lots of Scriptural support and explanation, together with huge consequences for our families, friendships, and fellowships.
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5 Reasons to Study Old Testament History
from David Murray Jun 27, 2012 Category: Articles
Shakespeare said that history is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The Christian view of history is quite a contrast; we believe God ordained it, organizes it, and moves it towards a meaningful, definite, and certain purpose.
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