I have so been enjoying these summer months with you and spending this time at the beach with these great authors

And here we are at the end with volume four from right now counts forever these columns span from the years

2007

Right up until

2018 as I look over these columns

I see a number of themes that were central to Dr. Sproul's life and legacy in ministry

One of those comes from a column from May 2010. It's entitled making Mollhill's out of mountains the crisis over justification

Dr. Sproul writes the crisis regarding the doctrine of justification that provoked the Protestant

Reformation in the 16th century has not yet been resolved

Thus the Reformation is by no means over. He goes on to say this crisis again confronts the church with what Luther

once called the issue upon which the church stands or falls without the doctrine of justification by faith alone

The gospel is not merely compromised. It is lost all together and in the place of the good news comes the bad news

Well, that's the doctrine of justification by faith alone

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And another one of these columns he returns to the theme of apologetics. This is from October

2016 and he writes the most valuable aim of apologetics

He tells us that the task of apologetics of defending the truth of Christianity has at least three main aims

First apologetics is to provide an answer to the critics of the Christian faith

Secondly, the major aim of apologetics is to tear down the intellectual idols of our culture

And then he adds the third and what I believe is the most valuable aim of apologetics is to encourage the saints

To shore up the church

He goes on to write that not everybody is called to be a professional apologist

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