Bound into the Shared Reality

by | Aug 20, 2020 | Spiritual Life

Here’s more gold from Alec Motyer. Reading Isaiah 56:1-12, he asks, what are the distinctive marks of God’s people? His answer: First personal decision, (“joined himself to the Lord”, v. 3, 6), and love of his name (v.6), the determination to...

Focus.

by | Aug 17, 2020 | Current Events

This follows on a post from a few weeks ago. Here is Francis Schaeffer, speaking life! God willing, I will push and politic no more…. The mountains are too high, history is too long, and eternity is longer. God is too great, man is too small, there are many of God’s...

Reasons to Not Trash People

by | Aug 5, 2020 | Spiritual Life

The other day I ran into this article by Anthony Esolen, in which he translated an old teaching on why we shouldn’t speak badly about others, or, as the author puts it, why we shouldn’t “speak ill” of each other. He says: “The following...

Optimism vs. Hope

by | Aug 3, 2020 | Culture, Current Events

Here’s one more great quote from J.I. Packer. This seems incredibly relevant… Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the...