Category Archives: beauty

Check out this week’s study on Romans

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Does God want nations to stay separate?

There is, and always has been, a level of tension between loyalty to a set of ideas and loyalty to one’s neighbor. That tension, for instance, is immediately apparent when considering Russell Kirk and Murray Rothbard. The former grounds his … Continue reading

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Digging into Romans 5

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Accusation, or Conviction?

How can we tell the difference between the accusations of the devil, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit? Jesus, we ought to remember, was betrayed twice by His disciples. While the betrayal of Judas carried Jesus inexorably toward His … Continue reading

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Me Not Me

I’m not the man I used to be. Neither am I the man I will one day be. And yet, I am the man I used to be, and will forever be that man. The passage of time experienced by … Continue reading

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Neither Are We Grateful

Salvation, it should go without saying, is astonishing. One minute we are looking at an eternity of just torment for our rebellion against the living God, the next we are running to our loving heavenly Father who has not only … Continue reading

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Do all paths lead to heaven?

Yes, and no. It is a common enough analogy supporting a common enough fallacy, the idea that all religions are simply different paths that meet at the top, finding God. If it’s a fallacy, and it is, then in what … Continue reading

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Good Friday

It is not a great mystery why we call this day “Good” Friday. This is the day each year that we remember the suffering and death on the cross of our Savior. Though they surely had little understanding of what … Continue reading

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Goodness, Truth and Beauty

What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens? Much in every way. On the negative side, we would do well to remember that the citizens of God’s city, like those in the city of man, are still sinners. Though we are … Continue reading

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Fairy Dust

It was the writer Arthur C. Clarke who posited this law- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I disagree. The technology need not be advanced at all. The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the … Continue reading

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