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Our Father

As a father and a grandfather I am, from time to time, faced with challenges. Children and grandchildren have inherited from me a condition that leads to those challenges- sin. For the myriad ways they are and can be blessings … Continue reading

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What Angry Greta Teaches Us

I will never forget my first published piece. It was a letter to the editor of the Ligonier Echo, the weekly newspaper of the small town wherein I grew up. I was all of 10 years old at the time, … Continue reading

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Is fornication a big deal?

Yes, of course it is. That we don’t treat it that way is a sign of our worldliness, not a lack of clarity in the Bible. It seems that sometimes we like to think that all sins are equally bad. … Continue reading

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The Rest of the Story

Obedience is a rather narrow road. Disobedience, on the other hand, has a great, sweeping plain of options. Because we are like the Pharisees, we find it easy to convert the law of God into sundry sins of omission. We’re … Continue reading

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Dueling Verses

The Bible is God’s Word. God’s Word tells us that God is one, “Hear O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is one” (Deut. 6:4). Since God is one, of a piece, not divided against Himself, then we know … Continue reading

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The Silence of the Lambs

The world, Paul tells us, knows what’s coming. He not only highlights the universal guilt of all men, but ironically defines that guilt as the denial of what we know. We know that there is a God, and that we … Continue reading

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The Children’s Crusade

The Devil delights in false dichotomies. When he persuades us that our choices are between this foolishness and that weakness — heads, he wins; tails, the kingdom loses. When we are lukewarm in our commitment, when we think the kingdom … Continue reading

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Praising Her in the Gates

It is a sure sign of the tendency of men to be relational dolts that we don’t even see how destructive our doltiness is. Some time ago one of our sons was having a hard time. That hard time expressed … Continue reading

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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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