One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Saturday, April 30, 2022

A return to darkness?

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An interesting, and somewhat disturbing essay at The Spectator explains "Why the Vikings are winning the culture war." For insta...

"The God of the hills"

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Re-posted : I am a native of West Virginia and although I didn't live there for more than a few months after I was born I did return ev...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

"Longing for a better country..."

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Russell Moore , good, as usual: The language of exile is...part of the Christian story for those of us who are born into or grafted onto the...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

"You’ll be a Man, my son!"

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you... Kipling, "If" David French : .....
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Oxford and the Inklings

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Every once in a while I check the "Popular Posts" section in the right hand column to see what visitors to the blog have been read...

Calvin's wisdom

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Originally posted in 2012 : Edd McCracken gives us "Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else" (I added the ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Thoughts about Christian worship

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Sometime in early adulthood I was introduced to Campus Crusade's "Four Spritual Laws" and remember being impressed with its c...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

"Hope is not optimism"

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Re-posted: After she died, it was as if I had broken my arm. A part of me ached all the time, and something that had been functional was now...

An Easter prayer

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Brightness of God's glory and exact image of God's person, whom death could not conquer nor the tomb imprison, as you have shared ou...

Triumphant gladness

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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Saturday faith

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From "Sitting, Waiting, and Hoping in the Tomb of Jesus" by A.J. Swoboda: .... Martin Luther said himself that Saturday was t...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Far from home

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Kathryn Jean Lopez provides a quotation from Richard John Neuhaus's Death on a Friday Afternoon : Do not rush to the conquest. Stay a w...

Good Friday

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And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did n...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

The lost

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I am entirely ignorant of Hebrew and Greek, the biblical languages, and a bit leery of interpretations by those with only a superficial know...

A new commandment

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re-posted Various Christian denominations place greater or lesser emphasis on what is known as the Christian Year . I grew up in a church...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

"Amazingly, something changed..."

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Michael Kruger on "One of the Most Overlooked Arguments for the Resurrection" : .... It is an often overlooked fact that provides ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

No won battles...

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From Barton Swaim's review of Matthew Continetti"s The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism : .... The conservati...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Thrillers

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Re-posted as I re-visit some of my early enthusiasms: I have been re-reading the John Buchan thriller from which I took my blogging pseudon...
Friday, April 8, 2022

"Start him off to the house of Shaws..."

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Re-reading Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June,...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Blessed

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Kevin DeYoung : .... The great privilege of growing up in relative peace and prosperity—whether narrowly in a healthy family or more broadly...
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