Zondervan was founded in 1931 in the suburb of Grandville, by brothers P.J. (Pat) and Bernie Zondervan, who were the nephews of publisher William Eerdmans. The company began in the Zondervans' farmhouse, and originally dealt with selling remainders and reprinting public domain works. It eventually developed a list of its own, in 1960 acquiring Halley's Bible Commentary, and going on to publish the Amplified Bible and the NIV Bible translation. The NIV was first published in partnership with the International Bible Society in 1973 and the ...

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Walter Ralston Martin (September 10, 1928 – June 26, 1989), was an American Evangelical minister, author, and Christian apologist who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a para-church ministry specialising as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics. Walter Martin - Family. Martin was born in New York City, the son of George Washington Martin (a judge) and Maud Ainsworth. He was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, a ...

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See News International, News Limited and Rupert Murdoch for more history. News Corporation was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. News Limited was created by Murdoch from the assets he inherited in 1952 following the death of his father, Keith Murdoch, and subsequent expansion. The main asset left to him was ownership of the Adelaide News. In 1986 and 1987, News Corp (through subsidiary News International) moved to adjust the production process of its British newspapers, over ...

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Walter Martin - Early years. Martin's career as an apologist coincided with his tertiary education in 1949 as he reputedly self-published some pamphlets on cults. He also practiced answering a variety of questions about the Bible and faith during lunch hours at a public park situated near Wall Street, in New York City. Martin has indicated in various book dedications and in audio recorded lectures how he was mentored by Frank Gaebelein (Principal, Stony Brook School), Wilbur Smith (author of the apologetic text Therefore Stand), and the Presbyterian radio evang ...

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Driscoll has not written anything outlining all his theological beliefs (such as a systematic theology), but his sermons, lectures, and books provide a good understanding of what Driscoll believes. In general, he is a conservative evangelical. In a pastor's conference in August, 2005, Driscoll characterized himself as a "charismatic calvinist" (audio, quote starts at 53 minutes in). He believes that all of the spiritual gifts are active today (he is not a ce ...

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Evangelical Protestants received the Revised Standard Version, which first appeared in the whole Bible in 1952, with some trepidation. The RSV was criticized by conservative Christians for not using traditional Christian translations of certain texts regarding the virginity of Mary, and other Old Testament passages whose Christian interpretation referred them to Jesus. The New International Version project was begun to meet the perceived need of having an updated Bible in contemporary English but which preserved traditional Evangelical theol ...

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In spite of its widespread use and endorsement, including Reverend Billy Graham calling it a classic devotional, some in the Christian community have been critical of the book for various reasons. Jimmy Swaggart and John MacArthur criticized the book as "pop gospel." Others have expressed concern that Warren's methods do not adequately account for individuality, providing a one-size-fits all approach to spirituality. Many Christians have expressed concerns with The Purpose Driven Life and the teachings of Rick Warren for their 'Walmar ...

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See News International, News Limited and Rupert Murdoch for more history. News Corporation was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. News Limited was created by Murdoch from the assets he inherited in 1952 following the death of his father, Sir Keith Murdoch, and subsequent expansion. The main asset left to him was ownership of the Adelaide News. In 1986 and 1987, News Corp (through subsidiary News International) moved to adjust the production process of its British newspapers, o ...

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Reformation Study Bible - Editorial Committee. R.C. Sproul, Drs., Ph.D. as general editor (Ligonier Ministries); Keith A. Mathison, Ph.D. as associate editor (Ligonier Ministries); Bruce Waltke, Th.D., Ph.D. as Old Testament Editor (Regent College); Moises Silva, Ph.D. (Westminster Theological Seminary); James Boice, D.Th. as associate editor (Tenth Presbyterian Church); Edmund Clowney, S.T.M., D.D. as associate editor (Westminster Theological Seminary); Roger Nicole, Ph.D. as associate editor (Reformed Theologic ...

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Born in Houston, Texas, Lindsey dropped out of the University of Houston to serve in the Korean War, then worked as a Mississippi River tugboat captain. His personal web site[1] describes that when "his first marriage broke up, he contemplated suicide, but instead found a Gideon New Testament and was converted. Lindsey became an avid reader of Scripture, particularly prophetic sections, which convinced him t ...

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The book is intended to be read as a daily inspiration, with each of the forty short chapters read on consecutive days. Each chapter contains a personal application section at the end with a "point to ponder," a verse to remember, and a question to consider over the course of that day. Rick Warren described his book as an "anti-self-help book." The first sentence of the book reads, "It's not about you," and the remainder of the chapter goes on to explain how the quest for personal fulfillment, satisfaction, and meaning can only be found in u ...

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Four years after the Pennsylvania-based Ligonier Valley Study Center moved to Orlando, Florida, its founder and chairman R. C. Sproul met a group of publishers in 1988 who proposed the making of a study Bible in the tradition of the Geneva Bible. As Sproul himself noted during an advertisement for the RSB: "Several years ago, I had some publishers approach me with an idea that I thought was fantastic. They said there's so many study Bibles available in the book stores, but there's none out there that present the understanding of the Scriptur ...

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Martin was a figure of controversy who aroused great loyalty among his colleagues, and deep animosity from many of his detractors. He was criticised by some fundamentalist Protestants for his affiliations with Pentecostals and Charismatics (even though he is a Baptist), and for his refusal to classify the Roman Catholic church as a "cult." He was the subject of scathing criticism of his doctrinal stance by the Canadian historian and ex-Jehovah's Witness M. James Penton. He was also criticized by Thomas Johnsen for defending the Lieber manusc ...

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Grand Rapids has long been a center for furniture and automobile manufacturing, however the presence of both industries has declined in the region along with manufacturing in general. More recently the city has has some success in developing and attracting businesses focusing on the health sciences, with facilities such as the Van Andel Research Institute (primarily focused on cancer research), Grand Valley State University's new Cook-DeVos Medical Training Facility, and Michigan State University's planned medical sch ...

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Since 1970, Grand Rapids has been host to an annual festival of the arts downtown, known to locals simply as "Festival (insert year here)". During the first weekend in June, several blocks of downtown surrounding the Calder stabile next to City Hall are closed to traffic. Festival features several stages with free live performances, food booths selling a variety of ethnic cuisine, art demonstrations and sales, and other arts-related activities. Organizers bill it as the largest all-volunteer arts festival in the United States. Also in Vandenberg Plaza are various country-specific ethnic f ...

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In The Late, Great Planet Earth, Lindsey wrote that he had concluded that since there was no apparent mention of the United States in the books of Daniel or Revelation, that the USA would no longer be a major player on the geo-political stage by the time the tribulations of the end times arrived. Lindsey also predicted that the European Common Market, which preceded the European Community, was destined by Biblical prophecy to become a "United States of Europe", which in turn was destined to become a revived Roman Empire ruled by the Antichrist. (The fact that there were seven countries in the Common Market related them to a beast ...

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Like the surrounding counties, Grand Rapids has traditionally been a stronghold for the Republican Party, giving clear majorities to its candidates for most county, state, and federal legislative seats. The city is the center of the 3rd Congressional District, represented by Republican Vern Ehlers. Former President Gerald Ford represented the district from 1949 to 1974. However, despite Grand Rapids' stereotype as a bastion of rock-ribbed conservatism, the city tends to elect moderate Republicans (at least by national standards). The city of Grand Rapids itself - excluding its subu ...

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The complete translation was first published in 1978 and revised in 1984. The translation work was done under the auspices of the International Bible Society and Zondervan Publishing House. The translation took more than ten years and involved 100 scholars from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The range of theologians includes over 20 different Protestant denominations such as Baptists, Evangelicals, Metho ...

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In the early 1990s, Zondervan became a division of HarperCollins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, joining the British Christian imprints of Fount and Marshall Pickering. In 2001, Zondervan was given control of these two imprints when HarperCollinsReligious became part of the general trade division. Ownership by News International has led to some controversy, and there was an attempted staff buyout in 1992. Recently, Zondervan faced complaints about the use ...

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