Machen’s Book: Christianity and Liberalism with Stephen Nichols

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• EL

  @elizabethurton4783 · 3 years ago

  I teach Church History; this lecture is superb. I'll be adding it to my students' coursework as they understand the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and its application to the Church today.

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• SP

  @spencerdent1034 · 3 years ago

  Ligonier is such a blessing I love this ministry. I listen to R.C. Sproul so much he has turned into my inner monologue 😂

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• AB

  @abcsermons · 2 years ago (edited)

  thank you so much for putting this stuff online for free.  I just started reading this book today and was so impressed with its relevancy 100 years after it was written.  You do a great job of setting the historical context of this book and how we can retrieve this orthodoxy and guard against liberal/progressive ideas dripping into the drinking water of the local church.  This book has been so helpful in seeing how the same language is being used in a different way.  I have been so confused and frustrated at how easy it is for the church to be brought back into its ever moving current.  Even in my preaching I find myself slipping into how liberals appeal to God relationally.  It is so ever present.  I find people bored, unresponsive, asleep, ungrateful when ever Christ is not needed but only desired to help with self-esteem, loneliness or existential teleological crises.  Liberalism slowly kills the life of a local church because the gospel has lost its power (1 Cor 1).  Whenever I preach the need for grace and our desperateness I see a waking up and a commitment to God and the kingdom.  It is crazy how much this affects church health.

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• KE

  @KevinHaigh-r2g · 3 years ago

  This book articulated what I already knew deep down, but reading it gave me the clarity I needed

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• RO

  @robertmize327 · 3 years ago

  Thank you❤ <br>Hallelujah For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12 KJV. <br>Your lecture is much appreciated, sir.

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• QQ

  @qqwertyuiop13 · 1 month ago

  Phenomenal book and phenomenal analysis of the book. I did not know the greater historical context around the time the book was written, which makes it all the more impressive.

• MO

  @MortgageRadio · 3 years ago

  What a profoundly excellent teacher.

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• LA

  @lalaland962 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Good talk. &nbsp;Because of this video, I found the book to listen to online.

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• IL

  @ilvarsmics5750 · 11 months ago

  was Gresham machen Young earth creationist or old earth crationist? Thanks!

• RE

  @reneekeerthana841 · 3 years ago

  Not surprised why this modern day Christianity is so man-centric.

• MO

  @Moss_Shepherd · 2 weeks ago

  Thank God I escaped Calvinism.

• MI

  @mikezeke7041 · 2 months ago

  And sadly the Opc is ragingly liberal.