Confidence in the Bible
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Throughout church history, many voices have challenged the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. Today, Stephen Nichols exhorts us to trust the unchanging Word of God that endures through the ages.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Stephen Nichols is president of Reformation Bible College, chief academic officer for Ligonier Ministries, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is host of the podcasts 5 Minutes in Church History and Open Book. He has written more than twenty books, including Peace, A Time for Confidence, and R.C. Sproul: A Life and volumes in the Guided Tour series on Jonathan Edwards, Martin Luther, and J. Gresham Machen. He is coeditor of The Legacy of Luther and general editor of the Church History Study Bible.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | It's one thing to affirm in errancy. It's another thing to believe that the Bible is sufficient for all of life and godliness and it's another thing to practice that. |
| 0:10.0 | And so here's my concern. We begin to entertain the questions. Maybe it's not so sufficient |
| 0:18.1 | anymore. As Christians, we must stand firm. |
| 0:25.0 | As the scriptures are attacked by scientists and academics, |
| 0:32.0 | as sociologists and other ideology seek to undermine the opening |
| 0:36.7 | chapters of Genesis, we need to be reminded that scripture is sufficient, even for the challenges of our day. |
| 0:45.0 | You're listening to the Wednesday edition of Renewing Her Mind, |
| 0:48.0 | and today we conclude three days in Stephen Nichols' six-part series, |
| 0:52.0 | A Time for Confidence. |
| 0:55.0 | As we seek to stand firm as objections, cancellations, |
| 1:00.0 | and even persecutions threaten Christians, we all need to be reminded where to place our hope, |
| 1:06.1 | our trust, our confidence. And that's why Dr. Nichols recorded this series and wrote the companion book. Consider taking the time to work through the messages |
| 1:16.0 | and read this timely book when you give a gift of any amount at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:21.9 | Remember that this offer ends at midnight. So here's |
| 1:25.6 | Dr Nichols to remind us that we all should have confidence in the Bible. |
| 1:31.2 | In this session we're going to talk about putting our confidence in God's word. |
| 1:37.4 | If we go back to some of those things we were talking about in our first session together, |
| 1:42.3 | those moments that are causing this time of change, |
| 1:46.0 | the systemic rapid change that we're seeing around us. |
| 1:50.0 | If we go back to this cultural confusion, we can see some interesting parallels between a debate |
| 1:57.1 | that's happening right now and a debate that happened back in that period from the 1880s to the 1910s. |
| 2:05.0 | In fact, one of the things we probably should be saying |
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