Posted by Martin Murphy on Saturday, April 16, 2011,
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God created human beings with unique learning abilities. God gave man the rational ability to understand and communicate knowledge. Some knowledge is innate that the Bible describes as “evident within them” (Romans 1:19). They also learn by empirical experience. The Bible explains in terms of “being understood through what has been made” (Romans1:20). Isaac Watts identified five ways that rational creatures might use God’s gifts . There are five eminent means, or methods, whereb... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Tuesday, April 5, 2011,
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Education
Have you heard someone say, “I don’t want doctrine or theology, I just want the Bible?” The apostle Paul warned the church that “the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” The word doctrine, as it is used in that text and many others, refers to instruction in the Christian faith. Jesus commanded His church to “make disciples.” The only way to make disciples is to instruct from the whole counsel of God. Anyone who says, “I don’t want theology” means ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Wednesday, March 30, 2011,
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Education
Thousands of sermons, teaching sessions, seminars, and lectures on the Christian religion and western philosophy in general have fallen upon my ears over the past forty years. I’ve consumed hundreds of books and devoted the last one third of my life in study and research relative to the Christian religion. God has graced me with an eternal relationship with Him through the Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Until this day, God has given me an able body and sound mind to... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Thursday, December 16, 2010,
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Education
We, most of the western world, live in the skepticism produced in the change from modernity to post modernity. The rational intellectual perception of human development has been absconded by the empirical suggestion that “image is everything.” It is said that Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) “at thirteen years of age said he was enraptured by the reading of John Locke’s “An Essay of Human Understanding” (Rational Biblical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, p. 7). I use that quote to sh... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Monday, September 27, 2010,
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Advice for writers from an 18th century sage. “If you have not the advantage of friends to survey your writings, then read them over yourself, and all the way consider what will be the sentence and judgment of all the various characters of mankind upon them: think what one of your own party would say, or what would be the sense of an adversary; imagine what a curious or malicious man, what a captious or an envious critic, what a vulgar or a learned reader would object, either to the matter,... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Tuesday, August 31, 2010,
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Education
In 1926 Dr. J. Gresham Machen gave his testimony before the house and senate committees on the proposed Federal Department of Education. Machen said, “We do not, I think, want a Federal Department of Education because such a department is in the interests of a principle of uniformity or standardization in education which, if put into practice, would be the very worst calamity into which this country could fall.” The Federal Government, using greenbacks as leverage, eventually did what M... Continue reading ...
Posted by Martin Murphy on Tuesday, April 13, 2010,
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Education
More than half of my life has been occupied with reading books. Education is about reading, comprehension, and application of the acquired knowledge. I'd like to share a little information about the need for theological education in the contemporary church. I'll use the concepts used during the Puritan era in America so you will see the difference in the process used by the modern seminaries.
The English Reformation during the 17th century was a struggle for ecclesiastical uniformity. The ... Continue reading ...
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About Me
| Martin Murphy |
| Midland City, Alabama |
My first priority in life is spending time with my wife and enjoying life together. Next on the list is writing books. After spending nearly 30 years in the class room, the pulpit, the lectern, the study, and the library, I now devote most of my time consolidating my academic and practical gains by writing books. My web site is titled "Writing My Books" because last year my wife kept insisting that I start writing before it was too late. Every day counts when most of life is in the past. I starting writing my books last summer and my wife would often ask "what are you doing?" My answer was "writing my book." When I proposed the idea of a web site about my writing project I asked my wife "what should I name it?" Without a second thought she said "writing my books."
I have a B.A. in Bible from Columbia International University and a Master of Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary.
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