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Echo and Narcissus
photo © 2009 eisenbahner | more info (via: Wylio) The question arises, how do we persuade people to cross over to the beautiful land of grace? How do we persuade people of the greatness and liberty and power and true virtue of the life of freedom? How can we convince someone that it is […]
Derrida on Forgiveness
Jaques Derrida was a French-Jewish philosopher who was a proponent of something called deconstructionism. It seems to mean that you follow a process whereby you take a ‘text’, which means everything in human experience since we experience the world through a verbal grid, and take it apart to reveal its hidden pieces and inconsistencies. The […]
Martin Luther’s Conversion
photo © 2009 Heather Kennedy | more info (via: Wylio) Can you believe this? I’m reading through R.C. Sproul’s classic book ‘The Holiness of God’ and he has this quote from Martin Luther describing his own conversion. This could have been a page right from this very blog. Check it out: “I greatly longed […]
The Door
photo © 2010 Avia Venefica | more info (via: Wylio) Once there was a young man who arrived at a banquet hall. He looked in the window and saw everyone smiling, sipping wine, eating hors d’oeuvres, dancing, and conversing with one another. He came to the door and realized that it seemed to be locked. […]
Jumping Across a Canyon
photo © 2008 Wolfgang Staudt | more info (via: Wylio) Two guys were standing at the edge of a great canyon, a huge gaping gash in the earth. They stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down to the tiny ribbon of the great river flowing so far below. It was a bit […]
Repentance Under Grace
Repentance in the New Testament is the English word translated as ‘metanoeo’, which occurs in the NT 54 times. ‘Meta’ means, with, or after, while noeo means to understand, perceive, consider, think. So we can understand the word to mean, to live after pondering, to change after consideration. One might observe simply by the nature […]
Beyond Calvinism and Arminianism
First I have a confession to make. I am not a theologian, nor am I trained in any kind of official academic sense. I come reluctantly to the table, because I seek truth and in the real world truth must be culled out and defended against the opinions of men and certain false ideas of […]
Elephants from Dimension X
photo © 2009 Peter | more info (via: Wylio) If you are a thinking person who gives credence to science (there are thinking people who really do not), the empirical evidence for things is all-important. Evidence should always trump pet theories, and theories which are falsifiable are the very warp and woof of credible […]