by Managing Editor | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, The Bible, Theology
Guest Post by Joost Nixon Last year on a rainy day near Kathmandu, a Nepali friend and I were on an evening errand for milk. We were tight-rope walking on top of walls because the rain had transformed the dirt roads into goo. Our route took us near a rare unplowed...
by Managing Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, The Bible, Theology, Worldview
Guest Post by Jared Longshore Secularism is all in a tizzy. She is hot and pouty. She’s fired up and making her demands. She’s defying the armies of the living God, and she’s soft as cotton… which is not a good combo. God’s people have...
by George Grant | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Fight, Fight Featured Post, George Grant, History, Politics, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Worldview
In his Confessions, Augustine (354-430) describes mankind’s universal sinful bent as “concupiscence.” The Greek word epithumia (ἐπιθυμία) occurs 38 times in the New Testament. It describes the utter enfeebling of mankind’s freedom of will through the bondage of sin....
by George Grant | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Uncategorized
Poet, literary critic, and novelist, Arthur Quiller-Couch, was best known for his incomparable anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse. As a lecturer at Oxford beginning in 1886 and a professor at Cambridge from 1912-1944, he taught an entire generation of English...
by George Grant | May 7, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, Religion, The Bible, Theology, Worldview
When I was in seminary, the “Church Growth Movement” was just getting its sea legs. So, of course, it was all the rage in the hallowed halls of academia—if not amongst the profs, most assuredly amongst their charges. Filled with uninformed enthusiasm my peers tended...
by George Grant | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
In his classic book, The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul bemoans the absence from our vocabulary of certain, once-familiar, King James Version words. It wasn’t so much the loss of antiquated verb forms like walketh and talketh, or sayest and mayest that bothered him. It...
by George Grant | Mar 3, 2018 | Blog, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
“And thus was he called Ichabod, for the glory of the Lord had departed.” 1 Samuel 4:21 The rising tide of heresy in the latter half of the fourth century very nearly engulfed the entire church. Most of the Nicean fathers had either passed into glory or were...
by George Grant | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Uncategorized
“Jeremiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged lamentation; a cry of woe; and expression of righteous indignation. “Nehemiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged humiliation; a cry of grief; an expression of righteous repentance. Well might we plead the case...
by George Grant | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, Religion, The Bible, Worldview
“We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God.” Isaac Watts One of the basic demands of Christian discipleship, of following Jesus Christ, is to change our way of thinking. We are to “take captive every thought...
by George Grant | Dec 7, 2017 | George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
By the 16th century virtually no one disagreed on the fact that the West needed to be reformed. What they disagreed on was what that reform should entail and how it was to be effected. In frustrated tension, dozens of competing factions, sects, schisms, rifts,...
by George Grant | Dec 7, 2017 | Current affairs, George Grant, History, The Bible
Culture is simply a worldview made evident. It is basic beliefs worked out into habits of life. It is theology translated into sociology. Culture is a very practical expression of the common faith of a community or a people or a nation. Culture is, in other words,...
