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Matthew Burden currently serves as pastor of a church in eastern Maine (USA). He studied at Houghton College and Denver Seminary, and his travels as a student and missionary have taken him to South America, Europe, and Africa. His first two books, Tactus and Soldiers of the King, both Christian historical fiction, were published while he was in high school. His more recent works, the three novels of The Hidden Kings Trilogy, are fantasy-adventure in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien.

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	Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Cry 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Conqueror's Song (The Hidden Kings Trilogy, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Is the Story of the Virgin Birth a Historical Fraud?

Of all the traditional doctrines of Christianity, none elicits quite as much eye-rolling scorn from "the cultured despisers of religion" (as Schleiermacher put it) as the story of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. This is not surprising; to the crude and disenchanted minds of modern skeptics, anything that calls upon the supernatural is a target for derision--and even more so a supernatural ac Read more of this blog post »

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The Christian Year

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I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship

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