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For reflection Genesis 22:1–19
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
When William Tyndale, one of England’s earliest Protestants, a disciple of Martin Luther, wrote about “the gospel,” he didn’t mean “the gospels”—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He meant “the gospel” in the sense of the message: the good news that, because of Jesus’s death alone, your sins can be forgiven, and all you have to do is believe it, rather
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Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon (2 volumes in 1 / ESV Edition): The Fellowship of the Gospel and The Supremacy of Christ (Preaching the Word)
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But the point is that you can do all of that without any reference whatever to “the gospels,” to the four books that, along with Acts, precede Paul in the New Testament as we have it. Thus in many classic Christian circles, including the plethora of movements that go broadly under the label “evangelical” (and we should remember that in German the w
... See moreN. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Unlike Dibelius, they assumed the historical reliability of Acts and rejected its sermons as being Lucan compositions of the Christian message rather than a faithful summary of what the apostles actually preached.