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Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)
The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirt and in search of Jesus Christ
The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.
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An Ironic, Apprehensible Summary of a Problem
A brief and well-known excerpt taken from C.S. Lewis’ 1941 sermon, "The Weight of Glory"
“We are far too easily pleased.”
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The Jewish Feasts
The formal recognition of the life of men & the presence of God
Each of the feasts were to be annually observed as a reminder of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt to the land of promise. One feast, though, was never to be celebrated without the others, for, together, they recited a single narrative and history.
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Moral Awareness: Caught up in the Middle of Things
Moral obligations are discovered in moral experience
"It would be nice to test the ground of morality before we step on it. But to all such proposals there is one inevitable reply: they come too late."
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When Facts are Crowned with Meaning
A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts
The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.
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Temptation, Patience & the Gift of God’s Time
Temptation as the ground of triumph
Only faith may so work in the presence of temptation to produce what temptation sought to destroy—virtue. This is the irony of James’ admonition.
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Edits & Rewrites
The Realm of Revelation
A link to an interview with Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute
It is wonderfully ironic that such institutions do their best work by employing the empirical methods of the Enlightenment to disrobe its worst prejudices.
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The Gift of Samuel
Children, Intimacy & Divine Desire
Hedonists everywhere should be concerned; after all, lust is what it has always been. Even when it is attended by pleasure, lust remains ungratified and ungratifying. This will surprise no one, but it does seem to bother some. Otherwise, there would not be such a rush to exalt lust as love, or to confuse their rewards.
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Featured Posts
Come & Follow Whom?
The two tables of the Law & the deity of Christ
Refitting an Analogy
Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible
The Christian Can Hope Perfectly
Geerhardus Vos on the Christian’s hope
The Gift of Samuel
Children, Intimacy & Divine Desire