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Who "Deleted" These Verses From Your Bible?
Matthew 17:21, Acts 8:37, and a grounded look at two thousand years of hand-copied Scripture, before you let sensational claims shake your faith
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Church History: Part 6 – The Future of the Church, and the Return of Christ
The two lectures that close out David Pawson's History of the Church series: a forecast of where the Church was headed, and an argument over how Christ would return that Pawson knew in advance would ruffle a few feathers
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Church History — Part 5: The Century of the Heart, and Three Isms (1800–1968)
From 19th-century Romanticism and a missionary explosion, through the Great Revival of 1857–59 and the devil's counterattack, to two world wars and the three isms that shaped the 20th-century Church: Liberalism, Ecumenism, and Pentecostalism
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Church History — Part 4: Three Centuries to Win Back Liberty of Conscience (1517–1800)
From the Reformers, Romans, and Radicals of the 16th century, through the 17th century's fight for liberty of worship, to the 18th century's Evangelical Revival that warmed a society gone cold
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Church History — Part 3: The Reformation
Seven priorities that had been reversed in the Church, how Martin Luther put them back in first place, and the fire that spread across Europe after him
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Church History — Part 2: When the World Captured the Church (AD 400–1400)
A thousand years that tell the story in reverse: not the Church capturing the world, but the sea slowly seeping into the lifeboat
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Church History — Part 1: Three Battles (AD 30–400)
From a handful of fishermen to capturing an entire empire — and what that means for the Church today
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When Deeper Study Shakes Your Faith
A compass for a Christian adrift in doctrinal confusion, and the question, “which side is right?”
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