Category: 500 Words
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Responding to Tom Hicks on Theonomy (1/16)
In his blog post, Why is Theonomy Unbiblical?, Pastor Tom Hicks sets out to provide a critique of the theonomic position. He defines this as “all civil governments are obliged to enforce Old Covenant judicial law, together with its penalties, but civil governments are not permitted to enforce any law not prescribed in the Old Covenant…
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The Ferguson Rifle
It needs two to make a peace, but only one to make an attack.
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The Ferguson Rifle
Yet it was not the Mosaic Law that guided me, but my own intelligence.
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The Ferguson Rifle
As long as one travels toward a promised land, the dream is there, to stop means to face the reality, and it is easier to dream than to realize the dream. (17)
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Saying ‘See Ya Later’ To My Son
After diagnosis, Jude often wondered if he would die. I never said, “Of course not! Don’t think like that.” All men die. We must not treat death like the imaginary boogie man under the bed. It’s real for all of us yet does not have to be feared (Hebrews 2:15). We overcome fear of death…
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The Fourth Commandment, Corporate Worship, and the Strength of Culture
Corporate worship services at our church begin with a call to worship. A passage of Scripture, usually taken from the Psalms, is read aloud reminding the congregation of God’s invitation to worship and give thanks. We come before the Lord responsively, not presumptively. What’s interesting about those invitations to worship is they sound more like…
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Mild Religion and the Threat to Civilization
The man with “mild religion” has no interest in obedience to Christ. He’ll occasionally show up to church, shirt collar in the clutches of his momma, wife, or girlfriend, but he has no passion for honoring Christ by the way he thinks, talks, or behaves.
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Developing the Christian Virtue of Intolerance
It honors Christ when you cultivate a godly hatred for false worship, evil thinking, and godless living. Speaking as Earth’s King, Jesus said, “Whoever is not with me is against me” (Matthew 12:30). Either you actively promote Christ in worship and life, or you are his enemy.
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Only the First Commandment Makes Men Equal
Apart from God, there will never be any sort of true human equality. It is only “under God” that men become equal. “The law is no respecter of persons, because God is no respecter of persons. He is the Father of both the humble and the proud.”
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Last of the Breed
If Russia would put the KGB to working on farms and doing something productive, tear down the Berlin Wall, and build more good hotels, we Americans would be all over your country spending money, making friends, seeing the beauties of Russia, and making ridiculous all that both countries are spending on munitions.
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Last of the Breed
All his life had been a preparation for dying, but dying as a warrior would die. Yet now he would not die, for dying would give them victory. He would live, he would escape, he would flaunt it in their faces. He would show them what a man could do.
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The Courageous Death of Christian People
You can face death with confidence only when this life has become less valuable than the next; when your love and longing for Christ is greater than for the temporary trappings of this world. When that happens, death becomes desirable rather than despised. You may say with the Apostle Paul, “My desire is to depart…
