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Jesus and the Means of Grace

How should we understand grace, and how does this relate to the person of Jesus Christ? In today’s Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. Robert Stamps explains how grace is best understood as an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ, who bids us to practice faith and enter the means of grace.

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The Gospel of Jesus

In his new book, The Gospel of Jesus, Ben Witherington III gets behind the canonical Gospels and offers us a historical recreation that reveal the single, linear story of Jesus life. His hope is that we might see Jesus more clearly, love him for dearly, and follow him more nearly—even if for the first time.

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Why Christians Worship the Trinity

Christian worship should seek to bring us into a formative encounter with the Holy Trinity, and to ensure that this happens, we ought to occasionally reflect on the faithfulness of our worship to biblical revelation. In this Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. Lester Ruth offers some provocative advice pastors and worship designers.

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What You Can Learn about Jesus from a Jewish Scholar

Anyone interested in gaining a more vivid, authentic picture of Jesus and his environment—only within which his words and deeds are properly understood—should read the work of Amy-Jill Levine. In today’s post, Nathan Brasfield review her most recent work, Short Stories by Jesus.

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Understanding Jesus’ Genealogy

What’s the point of including genealogies in the Bible? Why are they included in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and what’s the reason for some of the differences in them? In this Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. Craig Keener explains the function of Jesus’ genealogies.

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What Was the First Christmas Like?

What was the first Christmas really like? When did the Magi visit Jesus, and how about the shepherds? In this video, Dr. Craig Keener shares historical background that illumines the Christmas story found in the Gospels. He reveals how the Gospels choose to contrast the powerful with the weak and the illuminating parallels between Jesus and Caesar Augustus.

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How Holy Communion Serves as Discipleship

It was here, in Holy Communion, that the Church saw fully and completely what the potential cost of discipleship entailed: death. And yet it was literal good news, because despite his death, Jesus Christ was currently present with them in this very act of Holy Communion. Read more from Steve Bruns’ series on the early church and discipleship.

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How the Early Church Used Prayer to Make Disciples

How people pray greatly impacts what they believe. The early Church taught its people prayers and how to pray so that their faith would be correct and intact. It was one of the ways the Church discipled its people and encouraged them in their spiritual life and growth. Read more from Steven Bruns as he continues his series on discipleship in the early church.

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In the Company of the Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa

Jackson Lashier continues his series on the church fathers by covering the work of Gregory of Nyssa. Jackson argues that what Gregory patterns for us is a method of appropriately using scripture in argumentation, a method that is concerned not with individual verses but with the logic and tenor of the entire redemptive story.

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Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Really Matter?

What is the Trinity, and why does it matter? In this Seven Minute Seminary, Matt O’Reilly explains that within the one God there is both unity and diversity. The Father is not the Son nor the Spirit, the Son is not the Father nor the Spirit, and the Spirit is not the Father nor the Son. He also shares 2 ways that the doctrine of the Trinity makes a difference in our daily living.

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Matthew's Gospel: One of the Most Underrated Books of the Bible

The Gospel of Matthew is one of the most important and underrated books of the Bible. It bridges the two testaments and many verses are memorized using the Matthean version. In this Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. David Bauer presents a survey of the Gospel—one that will be helpful to use in preparing for Bible study or sermon preparation.

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