Calling
All Christians are called by God. Our first and most important call is to believe in him, to trust him. There is a second call, inextricable from the first, to obey him. These callings are clear and crucial. Callings with respect to careers or seasons of special...
Command To Love
Isn’t it troubling, this command to love? The Bible is filled with commands from God to do good work and to be of service, but this command to love, as stated by Jesus, is strictly about what is going on inside a person. Jesus doesn’t say, “Love the Lord your God with...
Annihilation Emotion
A Christian pastor wrote dismissively of the belief that God would annihilate the wicked. His held to the more common belief that God would torment the wicked forever. His fundamental opposition to annihilation was that every argument he had heard for it was based on...
Governing Principles
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, norule of the people.” – Calvin Coolidge
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