If you want my thesis of natural law theory in one graphic sentence, I will provide it: the most consistent defender of natural law theory was the Marquis de Sade. — Gary North, Westminster’s Confession (1991) The Fear ...
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Getting Ready For The Messiah
The three centuries which followed the Macedonian conquest of Asia, from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. —Peter Thonemann, The ...
Read More »The Thanksgiving Blessing Almost Everyone Forgets
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon How Do ...
Read More »The Myth Of Neutrality
The plea for Christians to surrender to neutrality in their thinking is not an uncommon one. —Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready (1996) Man neither is nor can be “objective” and “impartial.” All his thinking is from some fundamental starting point or ...
Read More »Representation and Independence
My position is this—I repeat it—I will maintain it to my last hour, —taxation and representation are inseparable. —Lord Camden, speech in Parliament (1767) The covenant idea is nothing but the expression of the representative principle consistently applied to all ...
Read More »Obama Picks Pro-Spying Cass Sunstein To Review NSA Programs
Cass Sunstein was one of President Obama’s most controversial czars. He has now been appointed into a far more influential and powerful position. Sunstein will now serve on the panel to review the NSA programs. While still earning a paycheck ...
Read More »Finding True Freedom Through Covenantal Representation
The covenant idea is nothing but the expression of the representative principle consistently applied to all reality. —Cornelius Van Til, A Survey of Christian Epistemology (1969) The Story of Ai Jericho had fallen. Israel’s next military target was the small ...
Read More »All Hallows’ Eve
He chose the eve of All Saints’ Day…because this was one of the most frequented feasts, and attracted professors, students, and people from all directions to the church, which was filled with relics. —Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church ...
Read More »The Secrets of our Founding That Your Teachers Never Taught You – Episode 032
Despite secular education’s insistence that there exists such a thing as the “noble savage,” it’s an idea rooted in fantasy and romanticism. A pagan, secular society is violent, bloody, anarchistic, and unjust. Only through the actions of the early Church ...
Read More »Noah and the Other Side of the Ark
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive Nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. —Ronald Reagan Missing Pieces The men who wrote Scripture ...
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