Augustine… Yet Speaking

[T]hough good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer.…

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Syn•tax

is the study of the way that words are arranged into phrases, clauses, and sentences. While most people do not use the term all that often to talk about English,…

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Unexplainable Mercy

The so-called “God of the Old Testament” gets a bad rap in contemporary society. According to some, this “God of the Old Testament,” was mean and judgmental, hurling thunderbolts left…

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And I Quote… September 19

Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than…

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Pilgrim’s Progress | Part One

  Our book for the remainder of September and the month of October will be Pilgrim’s Progress, in the beautiful edition put out by Crossway. An enduring classic, Bunyan’s famous…

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Friday Findings—September 16

Be Bold Enough to Follow The Truth As Far as It Takes You: “What we need are bold Christians—Christians bold enough to disappoint anybody necessary for the contending of the…

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Thomas Watson… Yet Speaking

It is better to love God than the world. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy. You may as well satisfy your body with air…

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Eis•e•ge•sis

Is the practice of reading into a text a meaning that is foreign to it. It is an invented term formed by replacing the Greek preposition ex, meaning out of,…

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Twenty Thousand Tomorrows

Chicago came into view as my plane touched down and began to taxi across the O’Hare tarmac, the plane finding its niche among the grid of city lights that shone…

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