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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's Gospel
- Matthew 19:1-30

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 is Made Prophecy

Eve, the Hebrew midwives, & God's salvation

It should be of no surprise that Israel’s bondage is associated with the effects of Adam’s sin. In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s promise.

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Underneath a Varnish

The nature of man & his sin

"When the evolutionists understand all these terrible situations to be atavism, to be the outworking of an animal-like past, then they undermine the concept of sin, turn wickedness into a sickness, change the sense of guilt into an illusion, turn prisons into hospitals, and they thereby do an injustice to the animal world. For animals do not live as people often live with and among each other."

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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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