This newsletter is running a little late, but for good reason. We at Bible.org have been very busy.  As some of you may know, on Feb1, 2011, we released the new look of our NET Bible online. It is called the Environment.   ( check out a short commercial about the Environment )Some people think we were flat out crazy for even thinking about changing the format of our Bible online. Others think it is the greatest thing.  The main reason for the change is that the old format did not allow any other language to be used but English as the main text.  Our goal is to have hundreds of Bibles available within our Study Environment.

Free* NETBible Webinar

So here is the neat part, if you are a pastor of a church, we will set up a free webinar for you and/or your staff and we will show you how to get the best out of our Study Environment. The FREE* demo should take about 15 to 30 minutes depending on how many people are involved.  This is a must for senior pastors, teaching pastors, youth pastors, small group leaders and Sunday school teachers.

You will learn:

How to get the most out of the Environment
How to see multiple translations when you search
How to see the Greek and Hebrew even if you can't read or understand it
Understand the full potential of what the search does when it searches
How to take notes and look them up at a later time
and the ever famous "Much More"
 

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THE RESURRECTION: HERE WE STAND

by Dr. Roger Pascoe

Introduction

We live in a very confused secular culture, don’t we? Confused because, on the one hand, it seems to have rendered moral standards and religious convictions almost irrelevant through relativism and pluralism, and yet, on the other hand, paradoxically, people are chasing after a popular sort of spirituality, as they desperately attempt to find peace and security in a tumultuous and insecure world.

But confusion isn’t limited to the secular world.  Theological confusion abounds in both the Christian church and academy, as seemingly endless attacks are launched on the traditional understanding of truth, and in the process demeaning, diluting, and even denying the gospel itself.  Open theism, of course, is a typical example of a new theology that strikes at the very root of our traditional understanding of the nature and character of God, and this by well-known theologians, pastors, and authors.

This is a day when we must defend the gospel.  Yet, our defence of the gospel today is, in some ways, no different than in previous eras of history.  The gospel has always been under attack, even from the very beginning of Christianity (cf. 1 Tim. 1:3-4).  Paul defended the gospel in writing to the Galatians, whom he feared were being seduced into believing another gospel of a different kind (Gal. 1:6-7).  And in the Corinthian church, there were those who were questioning many things, including the critical doctrine of the resurrection itself.

In this connection, I want to engage you today in an expositional study of 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, so that the clarity and authority of holy Scripture come to bear on the fundamental aspects of the gospel on which we stand.  Thus, the title of this lecture is: “The Resurrection: Here We Stand.”

My thesis is that “the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a non-negotiable, essential component of the true gospel.”  Without the resurrection, we only have good teachings and Jesus was merely a good man.  With the resurrection, we have divinely inspired and empowered teaching and Jesus was God.  Here we stand.  This is the beachhead, if you will, of Christian doctrine, for, as John MacArthur succinctly puts it, “True New Testament Christianity is a religion of the resurrection.”