Marilynne Robinson Robinson wonders if the reason people prefer Rush Limbaugh and “Jay Leno” (no longer a current example) is because they instruct viewers as to what it is “cool to think.” The present dominance of aspersion and ridicule in…
“For Truly Important Problems”
Seth Godin: You know something is important when you’re willing to let someone else take the credit if that’s what it takes to get it done. Or, in the words of the Apostle Paul: What then? Only that in every…
Do you have an odd feeling going into Thanksgiving?
Cornelius Plantinga: It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful ‘in general.’ It’s very…
No Community Without a Circumference
Thomas Oden: There is a fantasy abroad that the Christian community can have a center without a circumference. Since we gather around Jesus, it is argued, it is our center, not our boundaries, that matter. But this is the persistent…
Tolerance defined by Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton: Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything.* Quoted in The American Hour, by Os Guinness, New York: The Free Press, A Division of macmillan, Inc, 1993, page 174).
We are rescued, then we obey (not vice versa)
Cornelius Plantinga: Moses emerges with God’s Ten Commandments, a set of requirements that people have to fulfill not in order to get rescued by God from slavery, but because they have been rescued. Stated succinctly, the imperative of the Christian…
Staying alive between the covers of a book
Why not put your Ipad down, step through the wardrobe door, and into the wonderful world of a library? At the very least, read the below quote from E.B. White. Alan Jacobs, an author I thoroughly enjoy reading, writes: At…
Five Questions That Matter Most
I was just privileged to spend a week studying with George Guthrie, Haddon Robinson, and a wonderful group of fellow pastors. Darryl Dash, who takes better notes than I, posted one moment from our time together. Haddon Robinson says that…
Saved from God
R.C. Sproul: . . . I said, “Do you want to know what you are saved from? In a word, you are saved from God.” They just gasped and to this day when I attend that convention people come up…
“Not grudging obedience”
One immediately notices the influence of Philippians 4:4-9 in the below verses and perhaps echos of Acts 2:42 and Hebrews 11. John Frame: Grudging obedience is not what he desires of us. It may be better than no obedience at…