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A Letter to an Unbelieving Friend on How Best to Live

Dear Unbelieving Friend, My life, I am persuaded, would fall apart in a heap in a moment were I not a servant of the Lord. Though it is true that Jesus is the very font of my happiness, that is … Continue reading

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A Higher Power

It is not a difficult thing to discern the nature of someone else’s god. Some people carry their religion on their sleeve, advertising their spiritual commitments on bumper stickers or t-shirts. You can tell the Amish by their clothing, even … Continue reading

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Getting Better All the Time?

History is littered with the inhuman. That is, when we seek to take an honest look at those who have gone before us, we find what we manage to think is something different from us. We look at Nazi Germany … Continue reading

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Today’s JCE podcast covers the RC Sproul Jr. Principle of Hermeneutics, Ministering at Abortion Mills and More

And yesterday’s podcast, for those who had trouble accessing it, is now accessible. Tune in and tell your friends.

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What Hath Jerusalem to do with Nineveh?

It’s a temptation I know all too well, that man-pleasing desire to have a reputation as someone not at all given to man-pleasing. The pathway there is pretty well worn, and pretty clearly marked. All you have to do is … Continue reading

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Jesus Changes Everything Podcast, Wednesday, July 24

Fascism all around us, but not where many think, and an exploration of all our cultural blinders.

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Jesus Changes Everything, part deux.

And on the second day there was a second podcast. Have a listen to my interview with former career criminal, police informant and servant of Jesus, Paul Derry, and more on Jesus Changes Everything.

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Pleasures At Your Right Hand

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the source of that ode to frustration, “Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Salt water is the cruelest trick, looking, sounding, even feeling like that which satisfies, when in … Continue reading

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Believing God

We live in an age of spin, propaganda. We no longer weigh careful arguments and reach our conclusions judiciously. Instead we inhabit what one cultural critic called a “sensate culture.” We do not think; we feel. We do not decide; … Continue reading

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Slacker Nation

It is a long standing standard of my top ten reads list, that potent tiny tome, The Abolition of Man by the incomparable C.S. Lewis. Here Lewis enters into a critique of postmodernism that is prescient, gracious, and devastating. Of … Continue reading

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