Monday, January 31, 2011

Grant us grace to love as we ought.

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Via By Every Word : Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills & affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to l...

Who owns the term "Seventh Day"?

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Julia Duin writes about a recent issue regarding who has the right to use a particular religious designation: .... On Monday, this blog ra...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Integrity

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One of the best things that can be said about a person is that he seems to be what he is, and he is what he seems to be. And the best thing ...

Epiphany IV: By Thy help we overcome.

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God, which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that for man's frailness we cannot always stand uprightly; Gr...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Sound judgment

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Irving Kristol, from a 1984 essay reprinted in a new collection of his essays, via Bill McGurn at Ricochet.com : [F]or myself, I have reach...

"One death is a tragedy..."

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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." Josef Stalin Timothy Snyder asks "Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Reading old books

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Skye Jethani explains why he reads dead people: People ask me all the time, “Who do you read?” In most cases they’re looking for book reco...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hollywood discovers the GULAG

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Peter Weir makes good movies. Master and Commander and Witness come immediately to mind. One of the things he does really well is recreate...

The old faith for a new day

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I just ordered Don't Call It a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day , edited by Kevin DeYoung. It is designed, according to DeYoung...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

"Weep with those who weep"

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I am one of those who, in situations like this, is apt to say something  really stupid, or at least cliched [which embarrasses me just as mu...
Monday, January 24, 2011

The theology of Calvin and Hobbes

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"The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes," posted at First Things , directs our attention to the work on that subject by Richard Beck, ...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

"Place thyself in God's presence"

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From the first chapter of The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor [1651]: In the morning when you awake, accustom yourself ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Epiphany III: "Ye who follow, shall not fall"

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Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities, stretch forth Thy right hand to ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Exegesis

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"When a man is discussing what Jesus meant, let him state first of all what He said, not what the man thinks He would have said if He h...
Monday, January 17, 2011

"For valour"

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The Victoria Cross is the "highest decoration for valour in the British armed forces," roughly comparable to ...

"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart"

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Via Justin Taylor : “Clarence Macartney told the story about Dr. John Witherspoon...a signer of the Declaration of Independence and preside...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

The city of God and the city of man

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Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews one of the best recent books about Christians and politics, City of Man , by Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner: ...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Epiphany II: Assurance and peace

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Almighty and everlasting God, which dost govern all things in heaven and earth: mercifully hear the supplications of Thy people, and grant u...
Friday, January 14, 2011

"What have I to dread, what have I to fear..."

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If I were to list my ten favorite films, two or three of them would certainly be films made by the Coen brothers, and most of the rest of th...

"Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it so"

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Abraham Lincoln asked: “How many legs will a sheep have, if you call the tail a leg?” “Five,” was the response. “No,” said Lincoln. “Ca...