Apr 09, 2012
Christian IQ: Testing your Christian Thinking
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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The Christian faith has been around for a long time, about 2000 years now. There is a historic character to Christianity that transcends culture. Still we cannot deny that the Church has gone through transitions and changes. We have and will continue to. The most radical changes of course have been within the last 200 to 300 years.
When we look back at the early church, while not perfect, it was responsible for formulating orthodoxy as we find in the early practice of the Church and in the Nicene Creed. It goes without saying though that the Church today is quite different
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Apr 02, 2012
Self Worth and the Significance of the Insignificant
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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Human life seem to be to be driven by a constant quest for significance and self worth. It seems we are constantly trying to add to who we are. There is an underlying and subversive sense of inadequacy in all of us. Some of us embrace it headlong and lead lives of constant self guessing and self loathing. Those who do it come off as lost people that never seem to know where they are in life, and thus are often disrespected or minimized.
Then there are those who compensate for it with outlandish narcissism. We go to extremes to
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Mar 29, 2012
Does the Church Need the Old Testament?
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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Recently I was interviewed by Scott Oakland again on his ReformedCast talk show about the necessity of preachers learning Hebrew to preach competently from the Old Testament. It was a great discussion. You can catch that episode by clicking here:
A lot of Christians today have a hard time appreciating the Old Testament. There are some good reasons for this. The NT is primarily made up of Gospels and personal letters that are easily accessible to us as moderns while the Old Testament is full of prophetic, wisdom and legal literature which on first read can be a bit more
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Mar 28, 2012
The Blog Post About “How to Read A Blog Post”
Posted by Pastor Todd Murphy
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I have been doing my blog for about two years now and have really been enjoying it. I am really thankful for those that follow it and all the great feedback I get, whether in agreement or disagreement with me. At times those disagreements have really challenged and helped sharpen my own thinking. But as a bloggers, we often will get those sharp or negative comments that leave us scratching our heads saying, “how did they end up thinking I was saying that?” If you are a blogger, you know what I am talking about.
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