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Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished By Empty Heads
WHAT DO YOU READ first when the newspaper arrives? I dive for the sports page -an involuntary reflex action left over from a youth spent with visions Pittsburgh pirates and Steelers dancing in my head. the child within me still suffers more anxiety over league standings than the Falkland islands. Old reading habits die hard.
It is the same with Christian magazines and periodicals. when I first began reading CHRISTIANITY TODAY, two columns hooked me quickly, one was " Eutychus and his kin," the other "Current Religious Thought." I still go first to "Current Religious Thought." for I know I will encounter some vignettes of intellectual insight to nourish my too empty-head...
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R.C. Sproul
TheologianRobert Charles Sproul, (1939 – 2017), Reformed theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He obtained degrees from Westminster College, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary (M.Div), the Free University of Amsterdam (Drs.), and Whitefield Theological Seminary (PhD). One of Sproul's mentors was John Gerstner, a professor of his at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. Sproul, along with another of Gerstner's students, Arthur Lindsley, co-authored the book Classical Apologetics in 1984. Sproul's best-known books are The Holiness of God, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, and What Is Reformed Theology? He also served as the general editor of the Reformation Study Bible and was executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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R.C. Sproul
TheologianRobert Charles Sproul, (1939 – 2017), Reformed theologian and ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He obtained degrees from Westminster College, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary (M.Div), the Free University of Amsterdam (Drs.), and Whitefield Theological Seminary (PhD). One of Sproul's mentors was John Gerstner, a professor of his at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. Sproul, along with another of Gerstner's students, Arthur Lindsley, co-authored the book Classical Apologetics in 1984. Sproul's best-known books are The Holiness of God, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, and What Is Reformed Theology? He also served as the general editor of the Reformation Study Bible and was executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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