Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 28. Genesis 28 – Jacob 28 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman. 2 Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3 May God […]
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Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 28 (Mp3)
October 16th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 28 (Mp3)
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Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 27 (Mp3)
October 7th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 27 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 27. Genesis 27 – Jacob and Esau 27 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered. 2 Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t […]
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Life and Death – Matthew Flannagan Interviewed on Shine TV
October 2nd, 2012 40 Comments
Matt was interviewed on Life and Death issues for Shine TV’s Just Thinking show recently. The Episode aired last week.
Tags: Feticide · Just Thinking · MandM on Video · Shine TV
Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 26 (Mp3)
September 30th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 26 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 26. Genesis 26 – Isaac and Abimelek 26 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. 2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in […]
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Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 5 (Mp3)
September 22nd, 2012 1 Comment
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 5. Genesis 5 – From Adam to Noah 5 This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and femaleand blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he […]
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Published: “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” in The Westminster Theological Journal
July 19th, 2012 11 Comments
Matt’s article “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” is now available in Vol 74, No. 1 – Spring 2012 of The Westminster Theological Journal. An abstract of “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” follows: A long Christian tradition of moral reflection on feticide interprets feticide, the killing of a formed conceptus, as a violation of God’s law […]
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Sermon on The Parable of the Net (Mp3)
September 9th, 2011 Comments Off on Sermon on The Parable of the Net (Mp3)
On Sunday 4 September 2011 Matt preached a sermon on The Parable of the Net in Matthew 13:47-51: Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.




