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“Let’s start calling it servant lordship instead." — Doug Wilson

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Youth Problems Part 2: Life in Suspended Animation

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I grew up a Trekkie. You remember that word? It was a nerd word. A “trekkie” was a person who loved the television show Star Trek . My ...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Let Him Deny Himself

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Yesterday, I proposed an alternative translation of Matthew 16:24-26 legitimized by Greek usage in the New Testament that applies a little...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Life, Soul and Self

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The footnote to Matthew 16:25-26 in my ESV reads as follows: “The same Greek word can mean either soul or life , depending on the conte...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Anonymous Asks (277)

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“Will everyone in the lake of fire suffer to the same degree?” Catholic theologians speak of mortal and venial sins, distinguishing betw...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Leader You Know You Can Be

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Rachel Zegler on the version of Snow White in Disney’s latest remake of a classic: “She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she w...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Mining the Minors: Obadiah (5)

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What will the Middle East look like during Christ’s millennial reign? Obadiah tells us seven distinct facts about the future division of...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: The Emperor’s New Clothes

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Christopher Dummitt is an Associate Professor of H...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Youth Problems Part 1: Double Jeopardy

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“I wouldn’t want to be a teenager today!” I hear that a lot. And I suppose there’s something to it. It’s not easy going through those v...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Canadian Common Law and the Bible

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Ancient laws didn’t come with definition sections. When you see some of the lengthy, arbitrary and self-contradictory definitions in mod...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

When You Can’t Step Down

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The secular world doesn’t require moral authority to lead. It helps, sure, but it’s not a stopper if you can’t manage to project it; more ...
Monday, November 20, 2023

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“Should a Christian listen to secular music?” Wow. I am SO the wrong guy to ask that question. Maybe IC will take a second crack at this...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

A Bulwark Never Failing

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Around 1052 B.C., King David conquered a Jebusite stronghold in the hills and made it the capital of his kingdom. He repaired and built ...
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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Mining the Minors: Obadiah (4)

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History teaches many lessons … if we are paying attention. The children of Esau treated the children of Jacob despicably. Their traitoro...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: Nothing to Complain About

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Monty Python’s Eric Idle on their movie Life of Br...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Divorce: What We Don’t Know

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I’ve been thankful to see a few posts from Tom on the subject of divorce, and I’ve been encouraging him to research and write more. We, i...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

When Nobody was Standing Around

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Orthodox Christian faith declares our Lord was fully man and fully God. We can say we believe that, but getting our heads around it is ano...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The People Standing Around

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“I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around .” Sometimes Jesus said things he didn’t nee...
Monday, November 13, 2023

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“Should a couple be financially stable before getting married?” Anybody who reads here regularly probably knows I have repeatedly encour...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

In Which I Equivocate

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Your local church is dull. To be fair, they probably can’t help it. They wouldn’t know how to be any other way. It’s who they are: older...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Mining the Minors: Obadiah (3)

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When we read Bible history or doctrine, we take for granted that the tenses used by the writers are important. “Don’t do it” is different ...
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