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Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers."

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Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

True practice & promotion is apprehended in the resurrection

Arguments are frequently founded upon the implausibility or impossibility of their falsehood; but Paul’s tack is different. He is so sure of the resurrection’s fact, and so committed to all its attending consequences, that he makes the logic and character of this life to hinge upon the veracity of Jesus’ resurrection.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

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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Commentary & Exposition

- Matthew 19:1-30
- Matthew's Gospel

For this Cause

Marriage, divorce, & the kingdom of heaven

Matthew 19 reminds us that better questions often obtain better answers; but it more strikingly reminds us that the character of a question is first found in the integrity of a man’s heart. In the end, an inquirer’s ignorance is not nearly as damning as his unbelieving disposition.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-22

When History Serves Prophecy

The Exodus & Eschatology

This is why it is never sufficient to speak of Egypt in the shallowest aspects of its typology, as if its contrast to Israel were merely ethical. If the distinction between Egypt and Canaan were confined to the realm of ethics and culture, Egypt could have sufficed as the resting place of the Hebrews. That scenario would only require the overthrow of Pharaoh and the ascent of Moses to the throne in his stead.

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