If you think everyone is right, then you think the people are wrong who think everyone else isn’t always right. Said another way, it is inherently impossible to believe that everyone is right.
Be On Time
Be on time. “People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.” French Proverb
Refusing To Take Your Own Side in An Argument
I heartily recommend Herbert London’s book, America’s Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion. London writes: Robert Frost once said that a liberal was someone who refused to take his own side in an argument. Radical secularism, bolstered…
Kidner on Cain
Reading Kidner’s commentary on Genesis, I am again struck by how he can summarize with both brevity and brilliance: “Many details emphasize the depth of Cain’s crime, and therefore of the Fall: the context is worship, the victim a brother;…
A John Murray Quote on the Complexity of Faith
” . . . Faith, however, simple it is an act of trust, is a complex act and that diverse factors enter into its constitution. The trust of the infant may be said to be simple, but after all, it…
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
““Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.(Isaiah 1:18).”
"We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself" Yeah right.
FDR famously said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Taken by itself and out of context, it strikes me that this, one of our most beloved lines, is also one of the most profoundly stupid of American quotes.
How Bonhoeffer Defined Cheap Grace
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No Pious Particles: Christians Need One Another
Haddon Robinson writes: . . . Let’s not kid ourselves. We can’t be what Moffat called “a pious particle,” a Christian in isolation. We need the church for our own grip on faith. We may approach the Throne as individuals,…
Facts About How “American Christians” Give
If you have not read: Smith, Christian, and Michael O. Emerson. Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2008. At least read this alarming summary. . .Here are 6 facts about…