Author: Cole Newton

Christian | Husband | Father | Pastor | Teacher | Writer | (amateur) Classicist | (very amateur) Baker

A Review of The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300050607/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bcnewton-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0300050607&linkId=f96ebbb86eb4eed82d2146e275ca6610 The Democratization of American Christianity was published in 1989 by Nathan O. Hatch, who was at that time a professor of history and vice president for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Notre Dame. Through this study of history, Hatch aims to describe how “the wave of popular religious movements that broke …

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Him Who Sits on the Throne

The Aseity of God

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https://youtu.be/h9ULE1rOBzE For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. John 5:26 ESV The heavens and the earth, the vast expanse of the universe around us and the dirt beneath us, the spiritual and the physical, the immaterial and the material, the invisible and the …

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The Authority of the Word

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All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV Blessed is the manwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked,nor stands in the way of sinners,nor …

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Killing the Hostility | Ephesians 2:11-18

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https://youtu.be/ALKaUmVGJxg Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and …

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Making Disciples | Titus 2:1-6

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This sermon was originally preached in 2016. But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is …

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Chosen in Christ | Ephesians 1:3-4

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. Ephesians 1:3-4 ESV Verses 3-14 of chapter one …

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The Being of God

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https://youtu.be/JXeOVoclvjQ And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6 ESV Moses was a shepherd, but that wasn’t always the case. Although he was a Hebrew, who were the slaves of the Egyptians, …

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You Have Only to Be Silent | Exodus 14:14

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The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent. Exodus 14:14 ESV On the run from the Egyptians, the Israelites stood upon the bank of the Red Sea. Pharaoh’s chariots behind and the waters before them left Abraham’s children without many options. So they did what all of mankind tends to …

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By Grace You Have Been Saved | Ephesians 2:1-10

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091yhWX4hYI&feature=youtu.be And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of the flesh, carrying out …

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The Death (& Triumph) of the King

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https://youtu.be/EUB8ANPAP0g The earth first groaned as Adam’s curse fell upon it. Formed, shaped, and teeming with life by the Maker’s Word, this otherwise insignificant planet gleamed with the radiance of emerald and sapphire in the midst of a vast and awesome cosmos. God, the Maker Himself, was King, the eternal King with no beginning and …

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