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		<title>Peter&#8217;s Vision of The End</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add To Cart Price $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2012 by Phillip A. Ross 195 pages 195 pages by Phillip A. Ross Introduction A couple of years ago a friend asked me about my interpretation of 2 Peter 3:12: “waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!” Are we to take it literally? And if not, why not? Isn’t the plain reading the right reading most of the time? I’ve thought a lot about the questions, issues and concerns regarding this and address them here, sometimes somewhat indirectly. I knew that I couldn’t just jump into Second Peter without dealing with First Peter first. So, I worked my way through First Peter and published that book as Peter’s Vision of Christ’s Purpose in First Peter (Pilgrim Platform, Marietta, Ohio, 2011). There Peter wrote to the fledgling saints who fled Jerusalem prior to its destruction in a.d. 70 in order to help them understand that God had not and would not abandon them. On the contrary, God inhabited them as they fled in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Fidelity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s wrong with current marriage laws? In a recent article (Marriage Equality, 12/21/2011) the following scenario was suggested: the person you love is injured in an auto accident and is barely clinging to life in the hospital, but you cannot visit him or her because you are not married. It is then suggested that the cure for this problem is to change the marriage laws. “In this moment of tragedy you cannot be with the person you love because of one simple reason: you are gay.” But wait a minute! The problem is not the gayness of some couples, nor the institution of marriage. The problem is HIPAA. The real problem is a health care issue rather than a gay or marriage issue. Why is the easiest solution to the problem not amending HIPAA? Isn’t it HIPAA that stops the visit? It is. Isn’t HIPAA a much more recent law? And shouldn’t the remedy use the least extensive means to remedy the problem? Why does HIPAA trump marriage? And since the entire structure of U.S. health care is in the midst of the most serious and extensive overhaul in history, why not amend HIPAA to include visiting rights for civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Greetings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Christmas Song]]></description>
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		<title>Peter&#8217;s Vision of Christ&#8217;s Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add To Cart Price $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9820385-9-8 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 by Phillip A. Ross 317 pages Introduction Reading Peter’s letters is quite different than reading Paul’s. Paul was a scholar trained in biblical academics, which involves focusing in on meaning. It usually means looking at something with a microscope in order to clarify what sometimes appears to be minutia. Peter, who came to Christ as an uneducated fisherman (though he most certainly did not remain so), turns the microscope around, which turns it into a telescope. So, while Paul is often focused on the inner, personal realities of faithfulness, Peter is focused on the grand scheme of Christ’s mission in the world. Where Paul was focused on particulars, Peter was focused on the whole. While understanding Paul involves the personal experience of the Holy Spirit through regeneration, understanding Peter builds on regeneration and takes in the whole sweep of human history in the light of Christ. Peter understood history as the Old Testament. He had nor needed any other history book. As such, reading Peter without more than a passing familiarity with the Old Testament will surely lead you astray. Peter brought his ordinary understanding and experience of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Mystery of The Mystical Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add To Cart Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9839046-0-1 Publisher: Pilgrim Platform Copyright: ©2011 &#8220;Nevin&#8217;s Mystical Presence fell into my hands quite providentially at the most impressionable stage of my theological formation, and it made a lasting impression on me. Nevin&#8217;s burden is a theological genealogy: to evince that the paltry sacramental teachings in the Reformed churches of his day (mid-19th century) had degenerated from the robust views of the original Reformed testimony. He exhibits that even by the mid-17th century the rich sacramentalism of Calvin and other Continental Reformers as well as the Scotch had begun to wane, and the sacramental views of Nevin&#8217;s own contemporaries were, to him, positively bankrupt. We can only imagine what Nevin would have made of the utterly de-sacramentalized Reformed churches of our own time. I therefore commend Phillip Ross&#8217;s noteworthy revised re-release of this work and, without endorsing Nevin at every point, commend this rich—and equally convicting—study to your most careful reading.&#8221; &#8211; P. Andrew Sandlin President, Center for Cultural Leadership Preaching Pastor, Church of the King-Santa Cruz &#8220;One of the most encouraging developments of recent years has been the resurgence of interest in the 19th-century Reformed movement known as the Mercersberg theology. The publication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was contacted by Russia Today TV in January, 2011, to participate in an interview about marketing Jesus on their &#8220;CrossTalk&#8221; program, with Peter Lavelle.]]></description>
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		<title>The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First let me respond to the recent Richard Mouw article: The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell, Christian Post, March 20, 1011. He begins by saying that he agrees with Bell, and he does. But the fact that he agrees with Bell does NOT relieve the problems. He said, &#8220;Suppose &#8230; we go up to someone and tell them that God loves them and sent Jesus to die for their sins. Accept Jesus right now, we say, because if ten minutes from now you die without accepting this offer God will punish you forever in the fires of hell. What kind of God are we presenting to the person?&#8221; This is indicative of the problem because this kind of presentation of the gospel is NOT biblical. I know that the Evangelical Church has been using it for a long time, but that does not make it biblical. The problem is in the way that God is depicted in this presentation. Nowhere in the Bible is God depicted as giving people the choice of Christ or hell. This will be difficult for Bell or Mouw to understand because it does not fit with their understanding of God/Scripture. Nonetheless, be a sport and try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Beck &amp; Bible Study</title>
		<link>http://pilgrim-platform.org/2011/glenn-beck-bible-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 17, 2011, Glenn Beck presented a Bible study showing the parallels between the “biblical view of the end times” and the view of the Islamic Twelvers. Why is this important? Because the Twelvers count in their number Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i, the Supreme Leader of Iran since June 1989. As Beck said, it doesn’t matter whether you and I believe this stuff. What matters is that some very powerful people believe it. Beck presented the chart below to correlate the two views, claiming that this view is thee end times view presented in the Bible, as if there is no question or doubt that this view is the true view regarding the biblical prophecy of the end times. Christ Antichrist kills Jews/Christians Antichrist rules 7 years A/C peace with Israel, breaks peace A/C global seat in Temple Mount A/C kills/beheads new believers Mark of Beast (feared) Jesus returns 12th Imam Imam kills Jews/Christians Imam rules 7 years Imam peace with Israel, breaks peace Imam global seat in Temple Mount Imam kills/beheads new believers Mark of Beast (desired) Jesus returns His point was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covenant Description</title>
		<link>http://pilgrim-platform.org/2011/covenant-description/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long found the various teachings about God&#8217;s covenant to be unnecessarily confusing. For instance, various people have identified the Covenant of Redemption, the Covenant of Grace, the covenant of freedom, and covenant of bondage (also called the covenant of works/law). It becomes difficult to understand how these various covenants relate to one another, and which ones are still in force or not. And trying to sort out the historical writings on God&#8217;s covenant(s) is quite difficult because the literature is long, detailed and various positions disagree. A simpler covenantal taxonomy will help. By grace alone God created man (humanity) and established them in His covenant. The context (garden) in which man was placed contained the two elements of God&#8217;s covenant: blessing (represented by the tree of life) and cursing (represented by the tree of knowledge (self determination of good and evil) [Genesis 2:9]. This two-sided covenant included all humanity and is eternal (Genesis 2:16-17). This covenant has gone through various iterations, most of which emphasized God&#8217;s intention to bless humanity (Noah [Genesis 9:17], Abraham [Genesis 17:9], Moses [Exodus 34:27], David [2 Samuel 7:8-16], etc.). The essential structure of the covenant is delineated in Deuteronomy 28. The understanding that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Christian Ethic</title>
		<link>http://pilgrim-platform.org/2011/new-christian-ethic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest review by A. T. Ross : Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic (Cities of the Biblical World) by Elizabeth R Moberly This importance of this book cannot be overestimated. In it Dr. Moberly reassesses the Christian response to homosexuality. By this, I don&#8217;t mean that she tries to get around the obvious condemnation of homosexuality in Scripture, but rather that in focusing on the acts themselves we have utterly missed the point, and this actually hinders our treatment and approach to homosexuals seeking escape from their lifestyle. She argues that Christians have commonly assumed that homosexuality comes to expression through deficient development in their relationships with the opposite sex. In other words, we think that homosexuality originates in disliking the opposite sex and that the solution is for homosexuals to develop strong relationships with members of the opposite sex, or get married. By way of contrast, she proposes that homosexuality actually stems from developmental problems with a parental figure of the same sex. There is a deficiency in their relationship with their father, in the case of gay men, or their mother, in the case of lesbians. They did not get what they needed from this parent, and thus their [...]]]></description>
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