\”To the question \”Why do you have a beard?\” seventeen answers are possible. They are as follows: (Simple): I like it.(Taciturn): I just do.(Sheepish): Lots of men have beards.(Rude): None of your business.(Cowardly): Oh? Don’t you like it?(Confident): It is manly.(Overconfident): It keeps women away.(Practical, in repectu causae efficientis): Because I don’t shave.\”(Agnostic): I don’t […]
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\”Set down here, therefore, the fact that orthodox Christianity has nothing against the body, and everything for it. First, God made it. Second, God loves it. Third, God took it to himself in the womb of Mary. Fourth, he walked the earth in it, not with disdain but with enough obvious pleasure to acquire a
\”The dieter is condemned to bitter bondage, to a life that dares not let food in. But the faster is someone preparing for a feast. His Lent leads to an Easter, and to mirth and weight of Glory.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 100)
R.C. Sproul is one of my favorite authors. His book The Holiness of God shaped my Christian life more than any other book that I have read besides the Bible. I own around 15 of his books, and the one downside to his books is that there is a lot of repetition from book to
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\”If the past is important only as a transition to the present, then the present is important only as a transition to the future: the much-touted evolutionary meaning of history turns out to be one that never arrives.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 68)
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\”Culture – civilization – is the sum of our priestly successes, the evidence of the fulfillment of our vocation. The life of Adam – of every human being – is parks and plazas, and houses worthy of our priesthood; it is falling in love with the hinted garden in the world and lifting it into
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If I had one wish, it would be that there would be a library near Brenham that held only theological books. I want it to be less than an hour from Brenham and, for good measure, I want it to hold 150,000 books. I also want it to have wood floors. Mahogany bookshelves. Host lectures
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Ran across this post on CNN’s Belief Blog – 2011 Faith Based Predictions. Don Miller’s post is interesting, but too vague to understand if it is his opinion or not. Pyromaniacs has an interesting take on his post in the form of an open letter. However, I thought the most provocative post was written by
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\”We like to believe that we see ourselves as living in places, as acting in time, as the protagonists of real history. But we seldom get near the realities: it is the abstract substitutes, the mental counters, that our minds fasten on.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 46)
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The best translation of the Bible – great balance of readability and accuracy – available for free online. From the Crossway Blog When we released the English Standard Version of the Bible in 2001, we immediately made it available online, for free. Eager to get the Bible into as many formats as people will read, we’ve released the
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