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Question 11 | Isn’t Our Heavenly Inheritance Fully Guaranteed?
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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 Small Sins Are Needed
You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wicked-ness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter howsmall the sins are provided that…
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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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Down the Long Hills
Folks couldn’t live together unless they had respect for one another, and for the rights of other men. When you get right down to it, all law is based on respect for each other’s rights.
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Down the Long Hills
“You’re young, so when you sit in company, you sit quiet and listen. They say little pitchers have big ears, and they should have. That’s the way to learn. You’ll hear a lot of foolishness, but you’ll hear wisdom, too, and you must learn not to despise any man. Even a fool can teach you…
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Last of the Breed
“There are good men everywhere,” she said, recalling another. “Yes,” Zhikarev agreed. “I only wish they had louder voices.
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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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Preparing to Read Theonomy in Christian Ethics
Greenville Seminary required new students to read Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book [1]as we prepared for our studies. It was a very valuable book! One of his instructions for reading mom-fiction is to peruse the fly-leaves, bibliographies and indexes. Here are the take-always from Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics.
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A Critical Essay on the Canons of the Second Council of Orange
The Second Council of Orange had the duty of defending the doctrines of Augustinianism against those of semi-Pelagianism. The council generated a series of canons which were favorable to the Augustinian doctrines of grace and the role of the Holy Spirit, however it is clear that there is some synthesis of Pelagianism; further, it must…
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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…
