The backdrop of opinions on the Bible vary from contempt to celebration. Some are bothered by passages they don’t understand; others are troubled by the ones they do. Scripture is seen by some as a stumbling block in the path ...
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It
“But between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” —John Marshall, Life of Washington (1805) “At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, have the American ...
Read More »Democracies And Republics: Why One Is Much Better Than The Other
“Boy: It’s not easy to become a law, is it?” Bill: “No!” —Dave Frishberg, Schoolhouse Rock, “I’m Just a Bill” (1975) “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were ...
Read More »Do You Find It Hard To Forgive Others?
Have you ever forgiven someone who didn’t deserve it? Or, do you find it hard to forgive? Regardless of which category you fall into, this post is for you. In many respects, our culture has come to reject the idea ...
Read More »Can I Know God And Believe What I Want?
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle,” said President George Washington in his farewell address. But Washington’s words can be more broadly understood as a good representation of how ...
Read More »The Puritans, Democracy and Freedom
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. —John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit govern-ment either for church or ...
Read More »The Pilgrims And Liberty
In times of cultural failure and upheaval, there are usually two kinds of extremists. Those who abandon any established order as a thing beyond redemption, and those who remain within the system, hoping they can reform it. New England was ...
Read More »What Is The Church?
When you hear the word “church,” do you first think of a building or a people? Famous revivalist Leonard Ravenhill said: “In the church in Acts, the Scripture says they were all amazed, but today, everyone just wants to be ...
Read More »If God Is Good, Why Is There Suffering?
“Why?” is a question we often ask about suffering. This question is so important because it directs people in one of two directions: toward God or away from God. We ask this question for ourselves, and for others. Often ...
Read More »Unity In The Church
When we lose our unity in the church, it’s because something has become more important to us than Jesus. And in any church with sinners — which, of course, is every church — conflict will exist, and achieving resolution is ...
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