Every man wonders, and a man who is sure, beyond any doubts, has no faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God and a man displeasing to God has no business speaking for Him.
The man without wonder is unfit for philosophy let alone ministry.
It is the great mistake of the age to think that the believers are the ones invested with ce...
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Today (March 17) Rudolf Ewald Stier (1800 - 1862) was born. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of him, he is little noted nor much remembered these days. Partly because he was so awesome that our puny age cannot handle his sheer awesomeness.
Stier did a lot of interesting things as a conservative Lutheran churchman in nineteenth-century German...
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This week, The Chimes (the Biola newspaper) published this article, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from Biola" and I've seen many people on Facebook commenting on how many they've accomplished. As “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” below is the Torrey version of that list. Some of the below are my contributions; but most of...
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What if you could survey the entire scope of Christian doctrine at once: a brief enough summary to show the whole thing at a glance, but with enough detail to see the various parts and how they relate to each other?
As a stand-alone experience, that wouldn't be especially valuable: it would be too much information, too fast, without enough emo...
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Once I had a membership card in the Moral Majority and my wife listens to Dr. James Dobson.
We work at Biola University, a flagship university for conservative Christians in the United States.
Recent media reports about our fear of the Tea Parties certainly describe our feelings . . . though they underplay the terror and loathing that fills o...
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There are shows that died before their time, such as Firefly. There were certainly shows that suffered from a lack of love and budget cuts, see the third season of Star Trek: The Only Non-Derivative Version.
One television favorite of the return-to-nature wing of homeschooling is Little House on the Prairie and I would nominate it for the show ...
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Philippians is among the sweetest books of the New Testament. It is a short letter from Paul to a congregation that he obviously feels and expresses great affection toward. In 1898, JB Lightfoot, the Bishop of Durham, said that Philippians is “not only the noblest reflexion of St. Paul’s personal character and spiritual illumination, his large ...
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