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A Conflict of Visions-Reality as It Is or Transform It
One of the greatest public intellectuals of the 20th and 21st centuries, Thomas Sowell, a black man and conservative, wrote a book in in 1987 called A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. I point out his race only to indicate that black...
Numbers 13-14: Exploring Canaan and the Case for Christian Optimism
God communicates his redemptive story through a real people in history as a living metaphor for realities he would bring to pass in due course, a very long course. As I say, God is never in a hurry, and this took 2,000 years from its announcement in the calling of...
God’s Promise in Habakkuk to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory
I recently read The Puritan Hope by Ian H. Murray, and we can sure use a lot more Puritan hope in the church today. In it he describes how the Puritans of the 16th through the 18th centuries had a passion for seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in due course because...
Articles on Theology
Jesus May Be the Most Divisive Person in History
The pastor of the church we attend recently said these words, and because I've been slowly reading and writing through the gospels, I found them spot on. It's amazing to me, but not surprising, that Jesus is the most misunderstood person in history. Amazing because...
God’s Plan: Turning Everything Upside Down to Make them Right Side Up
I was reminded while reading Luke 8 recently, that God throughout Scripture, and ultimately in Christ, is completely counter cultural to all fallen cultures. Notice in this chapter how Jesus upends cultural expectations regarding women (several are named in this...
“that all of them may be one . . .”
These words of Jesus come from what's known as his "high priestly prayer" in John 17 where he prays before his crucifixion not only for his disciples, but for those who would believe in him through their message. That would include we who claim his name these two...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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Articles on Culture
The Epidemic of Unexamined Assumptions
Given I'm a fan of popular culture, and a student of it's influence on, and reflection of, the worldview of the people in that culture, I was very eager to read a piece titled Questioning the Gods: How TV's Tackling Belief and Religion. The article perfectly captures...
Notable Quotation
We must attack the enemy's line of communication. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects—with their Christianity latent. You can see this most easily if you look at it the other way round. Our...
God Gave Us His Law, and The Created Order, That We Might Flourish
We live in the age of The Sovereign Self. Phrases heard throughout the culture like, "Just be true to yourself," or "As long as it makes you happy" are common. Such ideas reflect the triumph of the subjective, which basically asserts that each individual can...
Articles on Apologetics
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Articles on Parenting and Family
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