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Celebrating the Atonement and the Resurrection While Promoting Contemplative – A Profound Contradiction

In 1922, liberal pastor and theologian Harry Emerson Fosdick stated the following words in his sermon titled “Will the Fundamentalists Win?”: “It is interesting to note where the Fundamentalists are driving in their stakes to mark out the deadline of…

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Was Christ a Substitution for the Penalty of Sin?

LTRP Note: The emerging church teaches that the meaning of Christ’s death on the Cross wasn’t that He became our substitute for the penalty of our  sins, as a loving God would never send His Son to a violent death…

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