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A Straight Line to the Pulpit: The Legacy of John MacArthur
In the middle of the twentieth century, with suburbs and churches exploding with intensity, novelist Peter De Vries saw big problems ahead for mainline Protestantism. He wrote of the...
Why I Am a Baptist
Desiderius Erasmus, incredulous and finally exasperated in his debates with Martin Luther, once nicknamed the great Reformer Doctor Hyperbolicus. In Erasmus’s view, Luther could not resist taking every argument...