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Making Place for Time

Sin wickedly ascribes an evil character to time

In the beginning, time possessed no argument with the creator or creature, but showcased the passing moments in which God revealed himself to man in his creation. If believers for the moment must still feel the pinch of time in space, that is the effect of sin and not time itself.

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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

"The present world is neither the best nor the worst possible, but it is a good world for fallen man."

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Essays & Assorted Articles

A Different Reflex to a Single Pain

Guilt & shame and hearing the gospel

Whenever people are on the receiving end of a transgression, they frequently recognize sins that they otherwise suppress. What they hide as offenders they shout as the offended. They even feel offended. Their integrity is suddenly injured, and they sound the same to all. It is proper to recognize such as a proud and hypocritical reaction in men, but we must also admit that it is an inevitable one—an echo that we all actually expect and long for at least a kind of righteous world, even when we wickedly try and place ourselves as its center.

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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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Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 9:18-29

Blessed be the God of Shem

The cursed of Canaan are visited by the blessed

The judgements of God are too infrequently considered, sometimes because those who disparage them do not find in their consideration what they presumed—the innocent. All the same, whoever neglects to consider God’s righteous judgements upon the guilty, will also forfeit a discovery of God’s grace. One of the ironies of God’s work in history is that he reconstitutes judgement for salvation, and death for life.

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