Back in 2008, I read a blog post by Tim Brister challenging the Church to be about memorizing whole books of the Bible. Tim outlined a system for memorization that he had gleaned from Pastor Andrew Davis, a system that is now an ebook you can get for about a dollar. Tim went on to […]
How Should We Then Live? (7)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Alas, so much to be done, so little time. Here is the next set of notes and quotes from our study through Frances Schaeffer’s How Should We Then Live? What gave rise to modern science? The rise of modern science did not conflict with what the Bible […]
How Should We Then Live? (6)
Here are my notes from our continuing discussion on How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer where he makes the ultimate point that the Enlightenment was an attempt at a Reformation without the biblical worldview. What resulted was about what you would expect. From what stream did the Enlightenment develop, the Reformation or the […]
How Should We Then Live? (5) (Reformation, pt. 2)
Here are my notes from a previous discussion from our Friday night series on How Should We Then Live? Chapter 5 continues the discussion on the Reformation, but focuses on the the impact of the Reformation on the relationship between government and its citizens. People looking back 500 years later get bent out of shape that […]
One new man in place of the two…
There are two world views on this planet. Two starting points that lead to just two types of men. There is the world view that success, however that is defined, is dependent upon us. There is a standard we must meet by our choices to reach our goal of fulfillment, happiness, freedom, heaven, conservative government, […]
Freedom of Christ
With this post I conclude a three part series on some thoughts concerning freedom. I have previously posted on the freedom of God and the freedom of Man. First, I defined freedom according to what God has revealed about His nature. He acts unfettered by any outside force. We looked at His revealing of His freedom to […]
Freedom of Man
Previously, I posted on the definition of freedom and took the position that freedom is the ability to act without any external controls. We looked at God’s self-revelation that the essence of “God-ness” is the expression of freedom in His underived, noncontingent, independent choice to “have mercy on whom [He] will have mercy.” (Ex. 33:18-20) Are we free? Is there […]
Freedom of God
Our culture is defined by a desire for freedom. Yet, even our bedrock freedoms become avenues for slavery. Freedom of speech, becomes freedom from hate speech. Freedom of religion, becomes freedom from religion. Freedom of the press, becomes, well, something quite different than what was originally intended. And, then there are new “freedoms…” New rights…Some […]
How Should We Then Live? (4)
I’m really thinking about changing the titles to this series to “Friday’s with Francis.” Even so, here’s what hit me during my read of Chapter 4 on the Reformation. It is interesting that Renaissance and Reformation were dealing with the same question and were going on about the same time. I forget about that. They […]
You do the math…
When working through the martyrdom of Stephen in Acts with a group of high school guys one Sunday morning many sunrises ago, I got to thinking about the worth of a man’s life. What are we worth? And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and […]