Sovereign Grace Music has two albums geared towards teaching kids sound biblical doctrine in a way that is easily understood. Listen Up! Cover Art by Sovereign Grace Kids As Christians, we have a responsibility to disciple our children from a young age, teaching them the truth of Scripture. There are various ways we can accomplish this from sharing the stories of biblical characters, memorizing Scripture, working through a catechism, and even by listening to music. With the release of Listen Up!, and the previous The Ology, Sovereign Grace Music offers a way for parents to combine these various approaches to discipleship in their homes and on the road. The Ology , aims at teaching children sound biblical theology in language that younger children can understand and adults can appreciate. WOW focuses our attention on the transcendence and immanence of God. We worship a God who has always existed, who has created the earth, sky, and dinosaurs, yet a God who is gracious enou...
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary... Since the era of the Enlightenment, there have been objections to the authenticity of Jesus' birth found in the gospel narratives of Matthew and Luke. Some scholars have suggested that early Christians borrowed mythical elements from ancient literature in an attempt to adapt the gospel to a Hellenistic (Greek) culture (1), while others have suggested that there has been an error in translating the word almah, leading to a conclusion that the original authors did not explicitly express. Many versions of the Bible render this word as virgin while critics argue that it should be translated young woman or maiden. William Beck, who has done extensive research of the word comments, I have searched exhaustively for instances in which almah might mean a non-virgin or a married woman. Ther...