One of the things that has struck me about the differences between this life and the next is that in this life everything is mixed. With the sweet comes the bitter. With the joy comes the sorrow. There is never a time on this side of Jes [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Many have charged the doctrine of imputed righteousness of producing an antinomian spirit. If, it is reasoned, there is nothing left for the believer to do in order to inherit eternal life, then there is no motive for holy living. Therefore th [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
It is a vain charge that men bring against God's law, that it is rigorous, sever, and difficult. Besides the fact that this contradicts Jesus' own testimony that "My yoke is easy," and that "My burden is light," it also contradicts plain reason and [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Religious War and the Crisis of Authority From 1618 to 1648 a war was fought all over Europe. We know it in history as simply the Thirty Years War. That this war was fought “over religion” is a little misleading. In the previous century, the king of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Religious War and the Crisis of Authority From 1618 to 1648 a war was fought all over Europe. We know it in history as simply the Thirty Years War. That this war was fought “over religion” is a little misleading. In the previous century, the king of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you have not heard this phrase yet, it has become the new nomenclature for "churches" that have refused to be either gay affirming nor gay denying, but instead have discovered a third way in which neither of these positions is adopted. If that s [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Now once our proper end in education is determined, this informs what the real and proper subjects are. So what are the real subjects in education? Reading, writing, arithmetic? Or perhaps history, philosophy, science, the languages, ci [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When we are speaking about ends and means, we are speaking about the goals and the processes by which it takes to achieve those goals. Mortimer Adler in his book Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind says this about approaching any... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Christians must be a scalpel between two worlds. I do not mean simply that our thinking must act as this dividing agent, but that our whole lives must bear witness to the superiority of the city that is to come. That is the whole message of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Christians must be a scalpel between two worlds. I do not mean simply that our thinking must act as this dividing agent, but that our whole lives must bear witness to the superiority of the city that is to come. That is the whole message of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
