In his 1644 essay “Of Education,” English poet John Milton explained the purpose of learning from a Christian perspective: “The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.”
For my evening devotional time I read the following quote: " God designed marriages more to develop character than to ensure a lifetime of happines." That quote got me thinking about how are perspective may be so flawed when it comes to many...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We live in stirring days, when deeds are everything--when closet work is often neglected for active business, and little time is given to meditation. Yet, with more thought and prayer--wholesome activity would be greater in the end, and all our...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This is an excerpt from The Epistle to Diognetus, one of the earliest pieces of Christian apologetic writing. While we are not sure of the author, it was probably written sometime in the 100's. For the sake of reference, Justin Martyr, the most...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Remember that pride is the worst viper in the heart — and the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ. Pride was the first sin that ever was. Pride is the most difficult sin to root out. It is the most hidden,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, and is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy — that it often dupes itself! John Calvin
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HERE you come to one of the watersheds of doctrine. The question of the decrees divides Evangelical Christians into two great camps, Calvinistic and Arminian, the point of difference being in effect this—as to whether God’s decrees are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
