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Friday, January 31, 2014

A Great Chasm Fixed Between

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Antidote

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“And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” (Colossians 1:17) The words “hold together” here are most frequently...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

This Explains Why the People I Work With Are Frequently Nicer Than I Am …

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The Sword takes up the subject of total depravity reasonably and biblically: “… to suggest that there is no trace of anything good left ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Command Performance

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Bible Study 06 — Comparison [Part 6]

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Can We Stop Using This Straw Man Now? Please?

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Okay, I have just come across the second book review in as many days which describes how, in the course of the story, a young person involv...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

The Faithful Have Vanished

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“The faithful have vanished”, David wrote. Not that the faithful have been exterminated and evil has finally won the day. Not that th...
Friday, January 24, 2014

God’s Eyelids

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Inbox: Marital Breakdown

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In response to this post Tertius and Susan T. Foh seem to be in agreement. Susan’s position on Genesis 3:16 was advanced by Ted Hildebrand...

The Opiate

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Karl Marx once said “Religion is the opiate of the masses”. He believed that religion was invented by wealthy men to control the poor. If t...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

He Who Requires Blood

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Sounds like a bad vampire movie: “He Who Requires Blood”, though only to our modern ears, of course. The author of Psalm 9 made no such sil...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Love Is Not Enough

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One of my favourite recordings ever is a tune Todd Rundgren wrote for his band Utopia’s 1977 album, the last song on the record. Like many ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Looking Forward or Looking Back?

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By any other name, would it smell as sweet? In modern cultures, usually not much goes into a name. Names aren’t often chosen for their p...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Bible Study 05 — Comparison [Part 5]

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

On the Unfair Maligning of Atheists

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It occurred to me that a paragraph in Friday’s post probably warrants a disclaimer or two: “What sort of miserable, twisted personality ...
Friday, January 17, 2014

The Ninth Circle

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Maybe you’ve heard the expression ‘the Ninth Circle of Hell’ used to describe an excruciating week at the office, a brutal exam or a partic...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Without Ceasing

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“The Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. The Lord has heard my plea; The Lord accepts my prayer.” (Psalm 6:8-9) Excuse all th...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sceptics, Seekers and Opponents

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Vox Day has an interesting piece on the subject of A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian, a book written with the purpose of ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

I Know

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My brother prevailed upon me to read this last night and, while heady and intellectual, I found it quite compelling. You can read the whole...
Monday, January 13, 2014

“A Matter of Interpretation”

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The existence of various denominations and sects within Christianity has led many to conclude that there must be all sorts of different wa...