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Solus Christus: Our Only Mediator
In the Middle Ages, the minister was seen as having a special relationship with God, as he mediated God's grace and forgiveness through the sacraments. But there were other challenges. We often think of our own age as unique, with its pluralism and the advent of so many religions. But not too long before the Reformation, the Renaissance thinker Petrarch was calling for an Age of the Spirit in which all religions would be united. Many Renaissance minds...

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In May, 1989, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Association of Evangelicals and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School was held at the Trinity campus in Illinois. Dubbed a consultation on Evangelical Affirmations, the meeting revealed more than it settled. In the published addresses (Zondervan, 1990), Carl F. H. Henry, the dean of American evangelicalism, sets the tone for book...

GQ Chris

Jesus, plus nothing equals everything!

GQ Chris

My son emailed us from up in Calgary last night- "Nora Ephron died." Our sons (all adults) tease hubby and I for our obsession with the movie, You've Got Mail, which was written and directed by Nora Ephron. I mean, we live in Oregon, but ordered mugs emblazoned with the logo "Zabars", because Zabars is a New York store featured in You've Got Mail. I store the mugs carefully, and we take them on trips. We never put them in the dishwasher because we don't want the logo to wear...

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Woke up later than usual but I still had breakfast so that I could go walking later on. My stomach was actually hurting (only minorly) which is great because I normally don't have any hunger pains I ate a bunch of calories for breakfast today- probably because I was still sleepy when I woke up and didn't want to cook anything decent/think of anything decent to eat. Should probably head off to the store sometime and pick up some foods for breakfast meals.

Two things that I didn't...

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