Baptists still know how to fight. I am a Presbyterian, but I sometimes think that all the fighting Presbyterians were killed in the American War for Independence. Modern Presbyterians are unparalleled at writing histories of battles, and three-inch thick theologies of surface-to-air missiles. So credit where credit is due. John Frame once wrote about the…
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Two Paths – A Study of Proverbs 18
There are two paths that people follow in this world: The Path to Destruction (Proverbs 2:12-19): “For [the] house [of the seductress] leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.” The Path of Righteousness (Proverbs 12:28) “In the…
Good Reads 02/24/18
What I’ve Been Reading, Listening to, and Watching this Week Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God What Jonathan Edwards says: “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in…
Economics 101: Work
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion … Genesis 1:28 Man was created to work. The objective of that work, as seen in the cultural mandate of Genesis 1:28, was to prepare the world as a dwelling place for God and man. God provided the Garden of Eden…
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter and Andrew Schiff
Peter and Andrew Schiff wrote How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes based on the book by their father, Irwin, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t. It combines simple explanations and cartoon-like illustrations on almost every page to lay out clearly the effects of government intervention in the market. It begins with…
Bearing the Fruit of the Spirit
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22) Are you experiencing these things in your life today? If so, what can you do today to thank God for these great gifts? If not, what can you do to submit to God in obedience and serve…
A Prayer by Horatius Bonar
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be! Lead me by thine own hand, choose out the path for me. Smooth let it be or rough, it will be still the best; Winding, or straight, it leads right onward to thy rest. I dare not choose my lot; I would not if I…
Good Reads 02/17/18
What I’ve Been Reading, Listening to, and Watching this Week: Too-Stupid-to-Survive Edition Too Stupid to Survive What Mark Steyn says: On Monday the Attorney-General of the United States addressed the National Sheriffs Association thus: “I want to thank every sheriff in America. … The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage…
Liberalism’s Assault on Reality
The public outcry over the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London at least equaled that over the more recent cases involving ObamaCare (Sebelius) and gay marriage (Obergefell). In his dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas explained the reason behind the public’s dismay: This deferential shift in phraseology enables the Court to hold, against…
Beyond Concrete and Rails to a Safer, Less Congested Future
The same week that Uber revealed more about its plans for flying cars, a plan to build a new light-rail line in Austin was “leaked” to the press. You have to give rail planners credit–they won’t give up on their dreams of bringing 19th-century technology back to the future. It was only three years ago or so…