Through the virus outbreak the last couple weeks we have all become aware of something. This awareness is there any time we see numbered statistics about the pandemic. It is there in the background of every photo of health care workers or first responders in their protective gear. It is there as we wait in […]
Read MoreAt Portland Bible College, we study the Bible. The eternal, never-changing Word of God. So it would be easy to think that our curriculum hasn’t changed and our classes look the same as they did back when we started in 1967. While the Bible itself doesn’t change, the culture in which we live sure does! […]
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“Great to Good” – Lanny Hubbard, Aug 31, 2018 Professor Lanny Hubbard shared a message on what it means to Live a Good Life. Below is the accompanying notes to the full message which you can listen to on our podcast here. Enjoy! Isaiah 1:17 says that God’s people are to learn to do good. […]
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I. Biblical Study:Most of those in Christian ministry know that the Bible is the primary source of material that will be used in preaching, teaching, counseling and personal development. Because they use it so much, the time they give to studying it is very important. Many youth pastors have had some form of formal Bible […]
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By Lanny Hubbard Portland Bible College was founded 50 years ago to train the young people of City Bible Church (then Bible Temple). It was the vision of the founders to create a school that would train the young people of this church in God’s Word for generations to come. They believed in the vision […]
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Here is an excerpt from When God Goes to Starbucks by Paul Copan (pp 74-75). It can be purchased through Baker Books. This is a summary of his chapter entitled, “Don’t People from All Religions Experience God?” People can have genuine spiritual experiences and they can encounter God without being saved through faith in Christ. […]
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The media today has presented to the watching eyes of the public multitudes of images involving acts of social injustice taking place around the world. These images of starvation, mutilation, and genocide are shocking to many of the Western viewers. These disturbing images have generated an outcry in many people that declare “That is not […]
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Here are a few good resources that address what we call “theodicy,” or the problem of a good God allowing evil. Disappointment with God by Phillip Yancy Introduction to Philosophy by Norman Geisler and Paul Feinberg. This has a great chapter on the problem of evil. The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis.
Read MoreHere is a set of my notes addressing some of the arguments for and against the trustworthiness of Scripture. Validity of the Bible by Lanny Hubbard
Read MoreHere are a few recommended sources related to the new sermon series, Questions. www.existence-of-god.com/existence-of-god.html This is a short article introducing a person to the four main classical arguments used to support the existence of God. They represent logic arguments used to support the existence of God taken from history, science, personal experience, and philosophy. www.reasonablefaith.org/popular-article-does-god-exist […]
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