It is a further function of faith that it honors him whom it trusts with the most reverent and highest regard since it considers him truthful and trustworthy. There is no other honor equal to the estimate of truthfulness and righteousness with which we honor him whom we trust. Could we ascribe to a man [...]
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In the quote below, Doug Wilson rightly describes what true intellectual respectability looks like. The passage is excerpted from his recent article about Christopher Hitchens (published at Christianity Today), the prominent atheist who died yesterday from maladies related to his battle with esophageal cancer. Eugene Genovese, before he became a believer, once commented on the tendency that [...]
Martin Luther commenting on Jonah 2:2: 2. I called to the Lord out of my distress. For there was nothing else to do in such need of both body and soul but cry out. Our desires, our powers are nothing, just as Jonah here called out in pressing need. No merit was present, for he [...]
Russell Moore: Many believe if they really have embraced the gospel, they ought to have a moment, a date, they can point to as the instant they passed from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. Sometimes our churches reinforce this misunderstanding. Preachers talk about assurance of salvation as though it were about [...]
NPR: On Jobs’ thoughts about God and what happens when you die: “[One afternoon we] were sitting in his backyard … and he was not in the best of health at the time. … He said, ‘You know, I’m kind of 50/50 on believing in God. But I want to believe that something endures, that [...]
Reversing the Gospel
Posted: September 30, 2011 in books, faith, false teaching, gospel, music, theologyThis morning, I heard something on the radio that almost drove me to tears. My wife will attest that I walked in the door quite upset, immediately launching into a rant about what I had just experienced. At the risk of seeming like a grumpy curmudgeon, I want to share what caused me such distress and [...]
…Scripture can be read as merely human literature…For what is required, on all these levels alike, is not merely knowledge but a certain insight; getting the focus right. Those who can see in each of these instances only the lower [human] will always be plausible. One who contended that a poem was nothing but black [...]
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many [...]
