1. There do meet in Jesus Christ, infinite highness, and infinite condescension. Christ, as he is God, is infinitely great and high above all. He is higher than the kings of the earth; for he is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. He is higher than the heavens, and higher than the highest angels…
Camaraderie, Not Homosexuality
Writers often use comparative language to describe uncommon experience. Using common shared experience as reference, good writers will establish the common to accentuate the uncommon. I think this is what the author of 2 Samuel was doing when describing the relationship between David and Jonathan. To assume that homosexuality is in view when David says…
Virtual Reconstruction of Second Temple
What the temple would have looked like when the Son of God walked the earth: HT: Justin Taylor
G. K. Chesterton on Humility
G. K. Chesterton, in his defense of humility: Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are—of immeasurable stature. That the trees…
The Story of the Bible in 3 Minutes
HT: Jim Hamilton
The Cursed Fig Tree
Mark 11:12 -20 reads: 12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to…
Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Elisabeth Elliot writes in The Path of Loneliness of George Matheson and the poem he penned titled "O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go" : "A hundred years ago a man's experience of desolation gave birth to a hymn with has been for me and for many the balm of heaven. George Matheson went…
Piper, Carson, Keller on Marriage
HT: Ryan Hoselton
Unfettered Abortion: The End of Women’s Rights?
This is a compelling argument. Sex selection in the United States is on the rise, and female babies are being executed at a higher rate than male babies. For the sake of a woman's right to choose, even to choose the execution of her daughter (who's womanly rights apparently are not to be considered), abortion…
Reagan Responds to Request for Federal Funds
HT: 22 Words
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