Born to raise the sons of earth, / born to give them second birth. —Charles Wesley, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” (1739) There Was a Man . . . Nicodemus was a Pharisee. In his day and within his culture, that was reckoned a good and respectable...
. . . From Their Sins Born thy people to deliver / Born a child and yet a King. —Charles Wesley (1744) Let earth receive her King . . . —Isaac Watts (1719) Who Is Jesus? A popular but suspect theologian stands before the new pope. Pope Kiril: So...
O come, O come Emmanuel, / And ransom captive Israel . . . —Latin antiphon, 12th century Christ was born to save! / Christ was born to save! —“Good Christian Men, Rejoice,” Mediaeval hymn Heartbreak Joseph was heart-broken, frustrated...
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see / Hail the incarnate Deity —Charles Wesley, “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” (1739) Hail, hail, the Word made flesh, / the Babe the Son of Mary! —William Dix, “What Child Is This?” (1865) When He Comes A...
. . . We experience the universe as the city of man. It is a field of human exploration and endeavor from which the gods have fled. . . .This is the age of the secular city. — Harvey Cox, The Secular City (1966) The tribes that united to form a...
The greatest spiritual endeavors and achievements in the past have been those energized by faith and hope. —Ian Murray, The Puritan Hope (1971) Most Christians don’t know the power of their own faith. They think like underdogs and that has real...
. . John Robinson really was the Moses through whom God gave the newly born nation commandments that should be their strength and glory in a new country which he himself never saw. — Daniël Plooij, The Pilgrim Fathers (1969) But we can learn to...
The only alternative to the doctrine of predestination is the assertion of the reign of total chance, of meaninglessness and brute factuality. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Biblical Philosophy of History (1979) I did nothing; the Word did it all...
Francis the Dragon The Spanish called him a pirate. To them, he was El Draque, the dragon who devoured their gold-laden galleons and plundered their treasure cities. To the English, and the Protestant world in general, he was a hero—a privateer...
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer. —John Wycliffe, letter to the Duke of Lancaster (1381) The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England. —Thomas Cranmer, The 39 Articles (1563) Continuing the Story Names and...
It can’t be wrong, / When it feels so right. —sexual predator Joseph Brooks, “You Light up My Life” (1977) Government is not based on special revelation, such as the Bible. —Norman Geisler in Living Ethically in the 90s (1990) All Things New As...
. . . In spite everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. —Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) The heart that was made according to God’s own heart, is now the reverse of it, a forge of evil imaginations, a sink of...
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