“Culture is the spiritual state of the people externalized.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 97
The Scouring of the American Shire
"Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up ...
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Idols and Tyranny
Sermon Video Introduction: One of the reasons we have trouble dealing realistically with evil in this world is that we have drawn mental cartoons of the evil beforehand. When someone says “tyranny,” ...
Culture Are Not Static
“Notice that Paul says that Cretans are a particular way, but notice also that he tells Titus to rebuke them sharply so that they can learn how to be different. In other words, he is not fatalistic about it. Cultures can grow in virtue, and cultures can also be corrupted in vice.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 83
Scary Indeed
A Culture With AIDS
“A society is an organic body, and like other bodies, it can have a disease that is well contained by the immune system, and it can also have a disease that has overwhelmed the immune system. In other words, societies can have AIDS.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 82
The Content Cluster Muster (08.12.21)
Words to Live By: Jokes I Like to Tell: Once there were two cousins who were both farmers and ranchers, but one of them lived in Vermont, and the other one was a native born Texan. They knew each other fairly well because they had always gotten along fairly well at family reunions, and they …
The Spirit is Not Monochrome
“Only I beg you to remember in what different ways sermons may all be messages of the Lord. Let it save you from the monotonous narrowness of one eternally repeated sermon. And, what is far more important, let it keep you from ever daring to say with cruel flippancy of some brother who brings his message to another door of humanity from you, that he ‘does not preach Christ.’”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 107
Path of Least Resistance
“We have to remember that we are a fallen race and that we sin downhill. We compromise downhill. We grow less disciplined downhill. It is not hard to go downhill.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 81
Galadriel and the Chimp
Introduction: Like many obviously correct religious phrases, the soothing and very centered one about being gospel-centered, or Christ-centered, or Bible-centered is obviously correct. But ...
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