Category: excerpts & quotes
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Songs We Sing (4/6/14)
The following is from Mother Kirk: Essays On Church Life (p. 134-135) written by Douglas Wilson. The issue of worship is crucial because, for good or ill, the Church leads the way in our culture… One of our problems is that we have confounded praise and worship. The definition of praise seems obvious, and fortunately, it is.…
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Can’t Dance The Forgiveness Tango Alone
Many people misunderstand forgiveness. What follows is a concise excerpt from Douglas Wilson’s book, For A Glory And A Covering: A Practical Theology For Marriage (p. 94-95). It deals with one commonly misunderstood aspect, that forgiveness is a transaction. In other words, it’s not possible to dance the forgiveness tango alone. Forgiveness comes from someone whose heart is…
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Atheism: opium of the simple.
My argument against God was that the universe seems so cruel and unjust. But how had Igotten this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with what I called it unjust? If the…
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If the Church is doing her job…
Toby J. Sumpter has been on a roll lately. His latest Jesus & the Bikinis is another home run. Here’s a taste but you should most definitely read the whole thing (here): And if the Church is doing her job, proclaiming this good news of forgiveness and justice in Jesus, then she ought to attract people who…
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A Dead Baby Is A Dead Baby
A recent case of forced abortion in China outraged the international community, which only serves to show our hypocrisy. If we remember to take the child into account, all abortions are forced abortions. Sometimes, as in China, the mother and child are both coerced. Other times, as practiced in America, only the child is. But…