Friday, 17 May 2024

Orthodox

Fear of the working class

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The editor of a liberal website has written about a plumber he had called to fix his drain. The plumber acted professionally and did the job. But he spoke with a Southern accent! He didn’t seem upset about the election! He might even have voted for Trump! The editor described his fear at having a possible Trump voter in his home.
All this fear talk about Trump has me confused. I can see a generalized fear about the future of the country, but this is far more visceral. Gay people say how afraid t..

Pies, Docs, Kuyps, And Confessionalists

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The Confessionalist wants to engage the world but recognizes that what binds Reformed Christians together is not an agreed cultural agenda or even an eschatology (a vision of the future) but the Word of God as confessed by the churches. Thus, sometimes the interests of the Confessionalist with intersect with those of the Kuyperian (e.g., Machen’s defense of private Christian schools) and sometimes it may diverge (e.g., Machen’s libertarianism). He recognizes that the church’s confession of the W..

Driven by Mystery: An Interview with the Producers of “The Story of God”

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By Wesley Baines
Who is in charge of the universe?
Big questions like these are the currency that National Geographic’s beloved documentary, “The Story of God” deals in, and it has yet to shortchange its viewers.
For those unfamiliar with this groundbreaking series, viewers are invited to join Freeman as he travels the world, exploring the nature of faith and religion.
With the inaugural episode of the show’s second season, airing on January 16th, these questions continue, as narrated by the div..

6 Important Bible Verses About Food

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Here are six important Bible verses about food.

John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

There is nothing more important about food in this life than to seek the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ. He is the “living bread that came down from heaven” and He is still satisfying those who have been brought to repentance and faith in Christ. Bread satisfies for a ..

Proverbs 8:23, the Eternal Generation of the Son and the History of Reformed Exegesis

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“Our argument hence is: ‘Christ, the second person of the Trinity, is spoken of, Prov. 8:23, under the name of Wisdom; now, it is said expressly there of Wisdom that it was ‘ begotten from everlasting:’ and therefore the eternal generation of Christ is hence confirmed.’ Our reasons are:–(1.) Because the things here spoken of can be applied to no other. (2.) Because the very same things are affirmed of Christ, John 1:1. (3.) Because Christ is the Wisdom of God, and so called in the Scripture, not..

Is This Book Healthy?

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It would be nice if we didn’t need to ask questions such as these and be able to trust what is marketed as “Christian.” But reputable publishers have been known to print less than sound fare. An author may be the sweetest person imaginable who we’d love to chat with over a cup of tea, but orthodoxy consists of more than having an engaging personality. The bar is set high for those who would be teachers and rightfully so. The Apostle Paul commended the Bereans for verifying what he taught against..

Dear Younger Me, Don’t Abandon Orthodoxy

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Revisionist sexual ethics will be your biggest temptation. That’s because you truly love your gay friends. You want the best for them. Deep down you secretly have the feeling sex was designed for marriage between one man and one woman. But you don’t want to hurt your same-sex attracted friends. Plus you’ll dread the idea of going against the crowd. You will want to be affirmed as a good, well-liked person. The truth is your silence could cause more harm.

A song came on the radio about retrospec..

Is Dr. King Coming to Dinner?

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Martin Luther King, Jr. shared his dream with the world.

He did more than denounce; he dreamt. He did not merely paint the bleak landscape of racial hostility in the world’s leading nation, but dipped his brush in vibrant colors and painted a country as it could be. He imagined a day when blacks and whites were not only equal in the eyes of the law, but joined together around a table in fellowship: “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the son..

Russian City Bans Abortions for One Day to Remember King Herod’s “Massacre of the Innocents”

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At the request of a Russian Orthodox Church diocese and local health officials, abortions are banned for one day in the Russian city of Yaroslavl to commemorate the “massacre of the innocents” in Bethlehem around the time of Jesus’ birth, according to RT News.

The church described January 11, 2017 as a “day of silence without abortions,” BBC News stated.

“On this day, all public health institutions of the Yaroslavl Region are prohibited to perform abortions,” the Archdiocese of Yaroslavl told ..

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