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If someone asked you to define God, how would you do it? God is many things, but can we boil down His essence? As we continue to answer the question of what God is like, we have to take a pit stop to understand God's nature. 

Books/Articles Mentioned: 

• Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John by Augustine
• None Greater by Matthew Barrett
• Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
• A Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson
• Divine Transcendence and Immanence by John Frame

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The names of God function as acts of self-revelation: they reveal to us portraits and promises of who He is and how He relates to us. Today, we're examining a few of those names as we try to answer the question: what is God really like?

Books Mentioned:

• Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickson
• Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof

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It is one of the most important questions we could ever ask ourselves. We’ll examine three questions that will forever shape our lives:

1. Can we know God?
2. How can we know God?
3. What is God like?

Books Mentioned:

• Knowing God by J.I. Packer
• Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickson
• The Wonderful Works of God by Herman Bavinck

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What do we do with the Apocrypha? This question has plagued the church for thousands of years. We’re going to be diving deeper into this question by examining two historical events that led up to the writings of the “Deuterocanon” and what Christians should do with them today.

Books/Articles Mentioned:

• What Is the Apocrypha? by David Briones
• Against Apion by Josephus (corrected citation from Irenaeus of Lyons’s Against Heresies)

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Throughout redemptive history, one of the greatest miracles God performed was the formation of the Canon. Spanning thousands of years with over 40 authors, the Bible we hold in our hands is nothing less than a divine miracle. How did we get the Bible we hold in our hands today? How do we know nothing was left out?

Books Mentioned:

• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
• A General Introduction to the Bible by Norman Geisler
• The Wonderful Works of God by Herman Bavinck
• Everyone’s A Theologian by R.C. Sproul
• Westminster Confession of Faith

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During the Reformation, the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture was under attack. Today, it continues to be an issue of contention for most Christians. What does the sufficiency of Scripture actually mean? Can Christians employ extra-Biblical or “secular” ideas?

Books/Articles Mentioned:

• The Sufficiency of Scripture by Matthew Barrett
• The Westminster Confession of Faith
• The Westminster Shorter Catechism
• Understanding People: Why We Long for Relationship by Larry Crabb
• Thoughts on the Sufficiency of Scripture by John Piper
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

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Is the Bible full of errors? If it is, doesn’t that make God a liar? The doctrine of Inerrancy has some complications that come with it. But these complications pale in comparison to the implications of not believing it. We’re outlining six truths that Inerrancy proclaims.

Books Mentioned:

• Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickson
• Systematic Theology by John Frame
• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem

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In a world of fake news, how can we really know what is true? Let’s explore the doctrine of Inerrancy, a doctrine that affirms the total truthfulness and sufficient precision of the Bible.

Books Mentioned:

• Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickson
• Systematic Theology by John Frame
• Taking God At His Word by Kevin DeYoung
• Truth and Power by J.I. Packer

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The question isn’t whether or not we should live under authority, the question is who is our authority? Christians answer this question with: “The Bible.” But what makes the Bible the Christians ultimate authority?

Books/Articles Mentioned:

• Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickso
• Systematic Theology by John Frame
• Taking God At His Word by Kevin DeYoung
• Divine Illumination from Ligonier Ministries
• Westminster Confession of Faith 1.5

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