May 2020 | East of Everest

Screaming at the Stars

John Newton on political anxiety

I cannot at all improve upon the quotation of John Newton that is offered below, but perhaps I can help you to hear it. After all, political and civil relations are now so frustrated as to regularly affect our feelings, and a hot heart is not often conducive to a cool head.

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Reading Genesis

Unbelief & reading scripture

I find that I read Genesis 3 somewhat differently than I do its two preceding chapters. There is nothing substantially different about the third chapter; it is only that, from that point on, scripture records people so much like me. This is not true of the second chapter. And this means I must read carefully.

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Herman Bavinck on Society & Family

Morals are first exercised in the family

"No matter what interest may induce people to form a connection with each other, these are always people who are morally responsible and may not do whatever they may happen to desire or want."

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A Supernatural Society

The church is more than a civic institution

Some states eased virus restrictions last week. Christians were then free to practice an under-appreciated virtue of habit. They returned to churches. For some, it was but a short walk to a well-worn chapel. Others needed to travel farther. They all came from somewhere else, but these all traveled to a church last Sunday.

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Resurrection: A Final Word Amidst Much Chatter

Man cannot now completely destroy himself

Ironically, mysticism is the last refuge of the hopeless; and an ethereal experience is the last invention of the mind; but neither of these will finally suffice for hearts. From deep within, men and women want to live, even as they chase after death to do just that.

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