Pacifism is Desertion
Pacifism in this poor world in which we live– this lost world– means that we desert the people who need our greatest help. (Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 128)…
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What is Freedom For?
INTRODUCTION
Our nation has long promoted a tradition of freedom and liberty. We find those two words inscribed in founding documents and American history books as well as bantered about on nightly news shows. Americans love bragging about their freedom. Some even refer to freedom as our greatest export. But what is freedom? Is freedom an end, a supreme good? Or is freedom a gift from God to human beings used as a tool for …
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History Matters
Yes, we must stand against those who would naively baptize all in the past and that would wrap Christianity in the country’s flag. But we must equally stand against those who would accommodate to the world spirit of this age under the guise of scholarship, and in the process not only distort the facts of history but Christian truth as well. (Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 118)…
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Recommended Reading: The Universe Next Door
I was first introduced to The Universe Next Door by one of my college professors, Ivan Spencer. In Dr. Spencers History of Ideas classes our main work was reading and analyzing primary sources in Western Thought (think: Plato, Dante, Karl Marx etc.) We read the works of these thinkers aiming to understand how they would answer the following seven questions:- What is prime reality? (What’s really real?)
- What is the nature of external reality?
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Human Impotence (Pt. 1) – Ecclesiastes 1
Human Impotence (Part 1) – Ecclesiastes 1
In his novel, When Nietzsche wept, Irvin Yalom writes, “Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness.” In other words, don’t look deeply into life. If you begin to think deeply about the world, wealth, work, and wisdom you’ll despair. And yet, God, through the author of Ecclesiastes spends 12 chapters forcing us to think deeply about all these things.
THE TEXT:
…Our text for today is Ecclesiastes
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Fighting on One Front
The devil never gives us the luxury of fighting the battle on just one front. (Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 100)…
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The Eternal City
My voice sticks in my throat; and, as I dictate, sobs choke my utterance. The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken.” [1]The churchman Jerome wrote those words when he heard of the sack of Rome by Alaric I and his Visigoths in A.D. 410. Truth be told, Alaric’s sack of Rome caused far less damage and death than you might imagine, but the emotional and psychological effects reverberated throughout the… -
Ugly Parties
Don’t just divide into ugly parties. If you do, the world will see and ugliness which will turn it off. Your children will see the ugliness, and you will lose some of your sons and daughters. (Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 90)…
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The Case for Christian Education by Theron Willis
This article is a guest post adapted from a talk Theron gave on 08-11-22 for an event our church hosted on Christian education.
INTRODUCTION
How rotten are the public schools in your area? This question weighs heavily upon your mind as a Christian parent. Even if a public school looks great on the surface, like a fresh and delicious-looking apple, you rightfully worry about what sort of worms are buried deep and out of sight, …
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How to Administrate a Funeral (For Pastors)
In future posts, I plan to talk more about the content and tone of funerals, but this post will focus on the administrative bits and bobs. And, for that reason, I’ll get straight to the point:
THE FUNERAL PLANNING GUIDE
Linked above, you’ll find a PDF version of the Word Document I used to plan funerals. I call it my Funeral Planning Guide. The moment I learn of a death in the …
