From the category archives:

1 John

NWA08 – Don Carson on 1 John and Assurance

April 14, 2008

Carson closed the conference with his final talk on 1 John. I was home by this time, but I was able to listen to it over the weekend. You can do the same by ordering CDs from the New Word Alive website. I will share some short notes of it here.
Because of his love for [...]

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NWA08 – Don Carson on 1 John, Part 3

April 10, 2008

I will share slightly briefer notes than usual on this morning’s talk—my fingers are getting tired!
Don Carson began his talk on 1 John 3 by making a claim that it is actually only because of the Bible that religion and morality were first strongly linked together. It is only because of Christianity that our culture [...]

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NWA08 – Don Carson on 1 John, Part 2

April 9, 2008

Don Carson began by talking about the many ways in which the love of God is spoken about in the Bible. We are both always loved by God and commanded to keep ourselves in the love of God. We must not over-emphasize either of these. The Bible speaks about the love of God being general [...]

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NWA08 – Don Carson on 1 John, Part 1

April 8, 2008

This morning the expositional Bible teaching by Don Carson is totally packed. It was only by begging help from a steward that I got in. I think I’ve taken almost the last available seat in the entire main celebration event. Fortunately his talk will be repeated later this morning. It is exciting to see so [...]

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Disagreeing less than I anticipated

June 24, 2005

There seems to be an outbreak of grace hitting the blogosphere. An example of this that struck me earlier this month came from David Warnock. More recently, I have opened two cans of worms in two days and in neither case has the row that I feared developped. On gender and bible translations [...]

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