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In this article Marvin Olasky interviews Anthony Bradley, a black minister who grew up in the United Methodist Church. It’s a worthy read.
Is it good to “live in the moment”? This phrase has been used in at least two different ways, and my response is determined by the meaning intended by the phrase “live in the moment.”
Sometimes what is meant by the exhortation to “live in the moment” is the synonymic exhortation: wherever you are, be all [...]
Unfortunately, this is truth is not universally allowed and maintained by such as call themselves christians, anymore. Not by a long shot.
“It is evident, by both scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy; that he stands in no need of, cannot be profited by, or receive anything from [...]
…because i love God.
DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.
“Does anyone fault [a man who loves his wife] for noting her every like and dislike? Is it clinical for him to desire to know the thoughts or longings of her heart?” Or to study her every move? Or to learn the language she [...]
did Roy Sullivan believe in God?
On Page 76 of N.D. Wilson’s Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (my favorite book of the year):
In Virginia, there lived a man named Roy Sullivan. He was struck by lightning seven times. I’m told rough odds of this happening are out of 1.6 x 10 to the 25th (sixteen septillion). Which is like one man winning [...]
Better abolish pulpits than fill them with men who have no experimental knowledge of what they teach… People go to their place of worship and sit down comfortably, and think they must be Christians, when all the time all that their religion consists in, is listening to an orator, having their ears tickled with music, [...]
when unbelievers blow smoke
Doug Wilson on evangelism:
The Bible not only teaches that the world is the way that God made it, and not the way we would like it to be, but the Bible also teaches that every man actually knows this, and that no man has an excuse for denying it. The world the way God made [...]
the most miserable people of all
From Ray Ortland’s Blog
My dad used to say to me, when I was a kid, “Listen, son. Half-hearted Christians are the most miserable people of all. They know enough to feel guilty, but they haven’t gone far enough with Christ to be happy. Be wholehearted for him!”
I used to roll my eyes when you said [...]
