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11/24/2010 09:37
Peter’s talk in Solomon’s Portico in Acts 3 had attracted attention—not all of it good. Apparently, some Sadducees (who hold the belief that there is no resurrection) heard Peter’s claim of Jesus’ resurrection and ran to tell the chief priests about it. We find in Acts 4, then, that “the priests...
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11/23/2010 16:48
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
C: Let's. Well, perhaps I might say a word about religious experience, and then we can go on to moral experience. I don't regard religious experience as a strict proof of the existence of God, so the character of the discussion changes somewhat, but I think it's true to say...
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11/17/2010 12:38
Father Frederick C. Copleston (Jesuit Catholic priest) versus Bertrand Russell (agnostic philosopher, picture right)
This debate was a Third Program broadcast of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1948. Reprinted in several sources, the following is from Bertrand Russell On God and Religion...
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11/17/2010 09:31
Hundreds of people pressed on Peter and John as they made their way over the temple area called Solomon’s Portico. They were astounded at the miracle, but their amazement seemed to concentrate less on the healed beggar and more on Peter and John who administered such power. Peter matches their...
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11/10/2010 09:55
Peter’s instruction in Acts 2:38 appears to be one of turning from sin and self (“repent”) and giving oneself over to God in Christ (“and be baptized”). If Peter meant in this command, to have performed the water rite, we would have to construe from the sentence structure that he meant the...
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11/03/2010 11:22
The first coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (about 1,978-9 years ago) was no quiet affair. The blast of a hurricane was heard! An already swelled population (visitors celebrating Pentecost swarmed the city) crowded around the house from which they heard the noise. No doubt a servant rushed to...
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10/28/2010 11:49
Sermon 2 – Infant Baptism
https://messageshare.com/messages/memberID414/062997aw.mp3
Response by Dan Salter:
In his second sermon on Christian Baptism, Pastor Latimer’s argument for infant baptism hinges on two major points with which I disagree. His first point concerns paedobaptism’s...
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10/28/2010 11:47
Sermon 1 – Sprinkling v. Immersion
https://messageshare.com/messages/memberID414/062297aw.mp3
Response by Dan Salter:
I must begin by stating my agreement with Pastor Latimer on the acceptance of an individual’s baptism whether by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring. I differ with...
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10/27/2010 10:28
The sound of the mighty rushing wind surely connected immediately in the apostles’ minds with the illustration Christ gave in a post resurrection appearance by blowing and telling them to receive the Spirit (John 20:22-23). But, in addition to the sound, tongues or flickering flames of fire appear,...
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10/20/2010 09:36
The eleven disciples (now apostles) travel back from the ascension site on Olivet to Jerusalem to wait as instructed by Christ. They went in the upper room (1:13), which is probably the same place (Mark’s mother’s house) where they had the Last Supper. This house was undoubtedly in the upper...
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