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”...
Picture this: People gathered together each week for one cause — clapping, singing, worshiping. They donate their hard-earned money, and their time, too, knowing they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Heaven, they believe, surely will be...
And lo, to their great surprise, the star which they saw in the east then appeared . . .. —John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-8) Nothing will awaken those that are resolved to be regardless. —Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole...
Wherefore our wills also have just so much power as God willed and foreknew that they should have. . . —Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (5th century) For we do not say that man is dragged unwillingly into sinning, but that because his will...
If you want my thesis of natural law theory in one graphic sentence, I will provide it: the most consistent defender of natural law theory was the Marquis de Sade. — Gary North, Westminster’s Confession (1991) The Fear Of...
With President Obama and the Clintons now dust in the wind, what do Americans need more than anything else to “reboot” this great nation? What’s the secret sauce that could get us going again and make the biggest difference at this time in our...
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...
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon How Do We Know...
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)...
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...
Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God Himself, and he is placed in it in order to subdue the earth. From the beginning therefore he is called to work. — Pope John Paul II, Laborem Exercens (1981) We know that men...
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