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The Incarnation: Humiliation to Ironic Victory

The incarnation confirms heroism in humiliation
  • The Editor
  • December 11, 2021
"Christ was not a human hero whose motto was Excelsior, who overcomes every obstacle, and finally achieves the pinnacle of his fame. On the contrary He descended always lower and deeper and more intimately into our fellowship."
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A Good World for Fallen Man

God makes the strained relation between man & earth to serve man's desire for heaven
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  • October 31, 2021
"The present world is neither the best nor the worst possible, but it is a good world for fallen man."
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The Realm of Revelation

A link to an interview with Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute
  • rah
  • May 20, 2021
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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Committing Sacrilege in Pursuit of Worship

Geerhardus Vos on the religious inclinations of man
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  • April 21, 2021
"And often the more ostensibly spiritual and refined these thing are, the more potent and treacherous their lure. The modern man who seeks to save and perfect himself has a whole pantheon of ideals, each of them a veritable god sapping the vitals of his religion."
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The Christian Can Hope Perfectly

Geerhardus Vos on the Christian’s hope
  • rah
  • March 3, 2021
"But the Christian’s hope is positive. His youth is like that of the heir who knows precisely what awaits him. No, more than this, the Christian has the assurance which no heir in temporal things can ever have. He knows with absolute certainty that the inheritance will not merely be kept for him, but that he will be kept for it."
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