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A Christmas answer to a friend: Hi ****, there’s a difference between simply “became fully God” and “became fully God and fully man”. The genius of the incarnation is still a far off thing to most contemporary christians, not for lack of trying to understand. In this, While the eternal son of God was and […]
Read More The Incarnation: Fully God and fully man, yet one person“We could think of canceling church on Sunday as a sort of canceling the real Christmas for the sake of the gimmick of Christmas. It becomes all baubles, and nogs and cyber-monday sales.”
Read More Canceling Jesus for ChristmasIn regard to the Kim Davis imprisonment the matter is much simpler than some imagine: A Christian is under a constant and invariable duty to the moral law of God (as fallibly as we live that out). That law is summed up by Jesus as loving God and loving our neighbor as ourselves. The laws […]
Read More Kentucky State Clerk Kim Davis and the Christian moral conscienceThe sub-christian pietism, social pacifism and cultural docetism that pervade the American church might be the primary reason for her waning influence. People can’t believe a gospel of no consequence. Jesus’ gospel carried an immediate effect upon all of life. Without that, it becomes a merely theoretical gospel accurate in sentences but devoid of power. […]
Read More The Waning Influence of the American ChurchGod’s Plan for the Correction of a Failing Nation
Read More God’s Plan for the Correction of a Failing Nation“The Holy Ghost: A Ghost Story…” Christopher Neiswonger at Branch of Hope OPC
Read More The Holy Ghost: A Ghost Story…The Sonship of Christ How is Jesus Christ the Son of God? What does that mean? How was he human? What does that have to do with the Gospel of Jesus? What is it to “believe” in God? Can one be saved without believing that Jesus is the Son of God? http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1123141955167 Click link to […]
Read More The Sonship of ChristThere’s a deep theology of vengeance taught in sacred scripture. “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord” is famous enough but the prohibition against our little revenges are just awkward. It’s hard to teach our kids to not take revenge because people will treat them badly and we want to protect them, to teach them to […]
Read More The Virtues of RevengePeople often ask why we are Conservatives in regard to Government and “suspicious” of the State in any presumptuous exercise of power. We have our reasons: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Washington “We hold these truths to be […]
Read More People often ask why we are Conservatives in regard to Government and “suspicious” of the State in any presumptuous exercise of power.
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