The Hard Bigotry of Low Expectations
Introduction: George W. Bush once gave a speech that contained a phrase that was laden with worldview wisdom. That phrase was the "soft bigotry of low expectations." When someone is growing ...
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A Chalcedon Christmas #3
Sermon Video Introduction: At the beginning of Hebrews 3, we are told that Jesus Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. As an apostle, sent from the Father, He represents God ...
Islam in Narnia
“I should mention in passing that the entire culture of the Calormenes is obviously a stand-in for Islam. This is most explicit at the beginning of chapter 4 of The Horse and His Boy when Lewis describes Tashbaan as having numerous minarets—and a minaret is a tower attached to a mosque.”
The Light Behind the Sun, p. 42
The Metaverse? | Doug Wilson
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No Sugar Coating
“Men are not won by making belief seem easy, nor are men alienated by the hardness of belief, provided only that the hardness seems to be something naturally belonging to the truth, and not something gratuitously added to it.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 214
No Other Way
“If this broad and inclusive approach were true, then Christ died for nothing. With a sorrow deeper than any man has ever experienced, Christ asked His Father to have the cup pass from Him if there were any other way (Matt. 26:39). If the Father could have said something like, ‘Well, the Rig Veda has some promising developments,’ then why did Jesus have to die? Jesus had to die because there was no other way to save us.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 34
Content Cluster Muster [12-09-21]
Nice: More here, and why not? Time to Think Without Blinking: I Really Like This Song for Some Reason : West Lafayette Travesty: So the city council in West Lafayette, Indiana—home of Purdue—is looking to strip Christian counselors of their right to speak biblical truth to the people they are helping. The proposed ordinance is …
Not Our Story
“And if we inquire too closely into what would have need to have happened to her [Susan] in order to bring all this about, we can be assured that this would be a sure way to get Aslan to growl at us.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 30