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		<title>Why Do We Need Systematic Theology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because exegetical detail is worse than meaningless apart from well-ordered inference. Case in point: The doctrine of the Trinity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3516&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the blurb for the next Sunday School series I&#8217;ll be teaching at St. Paul&#8217;s Presbyterian Church. If you&#8217;re in the Orlando area we&#8217;d love to have you join us this Sunday at 9:30am! Christ &#38; Creation It’s no mistake that the Bible begins with the story of creation in Genesis and ends with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3502&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanders Inteviews Kapic on Generosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Sanders was kind to enough to do a short interview with Kelly Kapic on our book, God So Loved He Gave. You can check it out HERE.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3490&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent According to Mark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those familiar with his Gospel, it may seem strange to turn to Mark for teaching on Advent. For unlike the other two synoptic Gospels, Mark doesn’t include an infancy narrative in his record of Jesus’ story. No Mary. No Joseph. No shepherds. No angels. No Wise Men. No star. No Bethlehem. No gifts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3474&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Central Theme of Matthew&#8217;s Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central theme of Matthew’s Gospel is fulfillment. In it redemptive history comes rushing to Jesus like rivers run to the sea. That’s why the Gospel of Matthew opens with a genealogy that’s designed to identify Jesus as Israel’s long promised Messiah (1:1-17). That’s why Jesus is called by so many OT names and why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3429&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promote Generosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out, folks. The Global Generosity Movement (GGM) has just been launched! This is a new initiative designed to support the growing movement of organizations and individuals championing biblical generosity around the world. Anyone interested in promoting biblically based generosity should definitely check out this new website, an exciting new platform designed to bring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3398&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jubal Factor</title>
		<link>http://jloudon.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-jubal-factor-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beauty and the Arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the Bible, the story line of redemption is carried through the line of Adam and Eve’s third child, Seth; but musical craftsmanship emerges first among the children of Cain, murderer of Abel and the first builder of cities (Gen. 4:17). Jubal, representing the unbelieving line of his father Cain, is father  of “all those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3388&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom in Every Sphere?</title>
		<link>http://jloudon.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/the-kingdom-in-every-sphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an interesting juxtaposition: Two mutually exclusive statements on the Kingdom of God in human life from two well-known Reformed Systematicians. I&#8217;d be very interested to know what people think about these quotations. Who do you think represents the better side of Reformed theology on this issue? More importantly, which perspective would you say is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3365&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take Her in Your Arms</title>
		<link>http://jloudon.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/take-her-in-your-arms-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how radically affectionate Wisdom is in the Bible?  I&#8217;m  always struck by this whenever I read the book of Proverbs where wisdom is associated with chasing after the right kind of woman. Seriously. The wise are those who “love” (4:6), “prize” and “embrace”  Lady Wisdom (4:8). In other words, wisdom reorients [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3338&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Nothing Justice</title>
		<link>http://jloudon.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/do-nothing-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take for the average Christian to “do justice”? Not much according to Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert in their latest book, What is the Mission of the Church? “Doing justice means not showing partiality, not stealing, not swindling, not taking advantage of the weak because they are too uninformed or unconnected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3328&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King Jesus Gospel: Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary In his latest book, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Gospel Revisited, Scot McKnight explains why he thinks “evangelicals” no longer deserve to be called by that name. We are no longer true evangelicals, he argues but, more accurately, salvationists because we have mistakenly equated the gospel (Greek euangelion) with salvation (p. 29). For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3273&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expository Generosity</title>
		<link>http://jloudon.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/expository-generosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Borger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are committed to expository preaching and teaching you are committed radical generosity. Many churches have a time in the year when they focus on issues of stewardship and generosity. Preachers will, for example, occasionally teach a topical series on the subject of money or possessions or some other related topic in connection with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jloudon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5698375&amp;post=3257&amp;subd=jloudon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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