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Quotes on “From Eternity to Here” by Frank Viola (Ch 5)

Quotes on “From Eternity to Here” by Frank Viola (Ch 5)

The church, the bride of Christ, is the Second Eve.

  • She is Christ in another form for she was taken out of Him.
  • She takes the name of her Bridegroom.
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Quotes on “From Eternity to Here” by Frank Viola (Ch 1-4)

May God bless you with new insights as you contemplate the mystery of Christ’s passionate love for His church.

Chapter 1: The Hidden Romance of the Bible

In Genesis 1 and 2, the Bible opens up with a woman and a man.

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Book Review: The Deliberate Church (Mark Dever)

The Deliberate Church

After many people read “The Nine Marks of the Healthy Church,” they asked, if we realize that our church is unhealthy, what can be do concretely to become a healthy church? In his sequel, Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist Church, makes a point that everything that we do in the church should be done deliberately, hence the title.…

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Book Review: The Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

The two most easily recognizable hallmarks of secularization in America are the exaltation of numbers and of technique. ~Os Guinness, p.24

Here are the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church:

#1 Expositional Preaching

I will sometimes be surprised by the point of the passage and therefore by what must become the point of my message… Expositional preaching is preaching in service to the Word.

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Reflections from Mary Poplin's "Finding Calcutta" book and a retreat with Pastor Don Overstreet

There were 2 things on my heart prior to the retreat – Mother Teresa and John the Baptist.

First, God gave me a portrait of the Christian life through Mother Teresa as I had just finished reading the book, “Finding Calcutta” the weekend before the retreat.…

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Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright

Heaven is often viewed by many Christians as a place beyond the river that our souls go to after our sojourn on earth is over. With a doubt, such a view of the afterlife has had a direct influence on a great number of Christian evangelicals who believe that the saving of souls is the only duty of the Church.

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