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"The Disruption of Evangelicalism" By Geoffrey Treloar. A Review

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The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson and Hammond Geoffrey R. Treloar InterVarsity Press PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426 www.ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-2584-4; $35.00; March 2017 Obtain a Copy and Dive In; 5 Stars of 5 Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Michael Philliber for Deus Misereatur (mphilliber.blogspot.com). Hot and steaming off of the press, with the fresh smell of newness, comes “ The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson and Hammond ”. It is the fourth volume in a planned five volume series chronicling a history of evangelicalism. The author, Geoffrey R. Treloar, is director of learning and teaching at the Australian College of Theology, visiting fellow in history in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, and veteran writer.  This volume readably recounts approximately 50 years of evangelicalism’s story as it moves from the 19 th into the first half of t

"You Will Swallow Up Death Forever" - 16 April 2017

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O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure…And you will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. You will swallow up death forever; and you, O Lord GOD, will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of your people you will take away from all the earth, for you, O LORD, have spoken ” (Isaiah 25.1, 7-8); “ Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ” (1 Corinthians 15.57). On this great day as your Church all around this globe, in the Presbyterian Church in America, and in the greater Oklahoma City area, rejoices in the victory you have brought through the resurrection of Christ, we pray for those who have and are suffering horribly on behalf of our Lord that you would wipe away their tears and remove their reproach. Bring us all together in Christ Jesus, and bring us all t