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Excerpt | Theology
The Puritan preacher’s theology actually depends on God’s love, not God’s wrath.
Oliver D. Crisp and Kyle C. Strobel
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Popular
caricatures of Jonathan Edwards’s theology focus almost solely on
divine wrath, usually in reference to his infamously titled sermon,
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” A deeper read of his theology,
however, discovers instead that God’s love is the impetus for Edwards’s
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How
the church in Africa’s largest Christian—and Muslim—country is trying
to emulate Christ in their response to unrelenting violence.
CT Editors
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Nigerian
Christians have had enough. Thousands took to the streets this week
after an attack during a church service left nearly two dozen dead last
month. Among the victims were two priests, spurring Catholic leaders to
protest the government for failing to do enough to protect the Christian
community. ...
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Nazarene officials say ‘God is still in control’ after regional leaders die on the way home from Havana retreat.
Morgan Lee
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A group of Cuban church leaders died in a plane crash Friday on the way home from a denominational retreat in Havana.
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ten married couples, several of them co-pastors, from HolguÃn in East
Cuba, had spent three days at a Nazarene seminary in the island’s
capital. They sang and prayed ...
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Local body of Christ heartbroken by Jerusalem embassy move and Gaza border violence.
Jayson Casper
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Hanna
Maher’s wife is nine months pregnant, due any day now, with only four
hours of daily electricity. Her two older boys scurry about in the dark,
kept ignorant by parents about the dead at the border.
But it is hard to be ignorant in Gaza.
A Norwegian charity estimates 56 percent of children ...
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Pro-life evangelicals are celebrating another move by the Trump administration to cut federal funding for abortion.
According
to reports, the White House is expected to announce new regulations
prohibiting Planned Parenthood and other entities that make abortion
referrals from receiving grant money through ...
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God Hates Gun Violence
We American Christians have a biblical call to reduce firearm deaths in our land.
Mark Galli
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Violence
enters the human story from nearly the beginning: “While they were in
the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him” (Gen. 4:8).
The
Genesis narrative notes that violence soon becomes endemic. In a mere
two chapters, we read, “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was
full of violence” (Gen. 6:11).
And “God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the
earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going ...
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