Historians with increasing and distressing frequency are openly admitting that history has no meaning and shows little or no purpose or goals. —C. Gregg Singer, “The Problem of Historical Interpretation” (1976) One has to go back of the “facts”...
It is not the proud or the mighty or the rich who have the last word. Indeed, through his Messiah, God is about to over throw all these. —Leon Morris, The Gospel According to Luke The Bible as History When we say that the Bible is the Word of...
Man is the image of God. He necessarily creates stories and enjoys them. —Greg Uttinger, “The Lord of the Rings: A Good Story” (2012) Deep comedy is a product of Christianity, a mark of resurrection life on the pages of Western literature...
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. —Inscription on the Liberty Bell (1752/3) This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. —Jesus of Nazareth (AD 30) Jubilee Bond Servants The Mosaic Law permitted and...
Our Lord Jesus was so in love with his undertaking that he would not go out free from it, and therefore engaged to persevere for ever in it; and for this reason he is able to save us to the uttermost. . . …. —Matthew Henry on Psalm 40 (c. 1708)...
I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution. —Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988) But modern man...
The biblical worldview is not a fairy-tale, or romantic perfectionism, but a realistic appraisal of men with their sins and shortcomings. David Chilton, Productive Christians (1981) The true Romantic always assumes his own innocence. He believes...
Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) The First “Hawkeye” D...
Viruses are extremely unpredictable, as the worldwide Ebola outbreak last year proved. That outbreak highlighted a significant problem, and one whose reconciliation is firmly grounded in biblical truth. Here’s what I mean: When society makes the...
Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing. —Samuel Francis Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” (1831) Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else. . . . —The Declaration of the Rights of Man...
It is unnecessary to point out that all the great religions hold the view that the essence of man and the essence of God are one and the same. —Colin Wilson, The Occult: A History (1971) The dominant tenet of Hebrew thought is the absolute...
Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) The First “Hawkeye” D. H...
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