February 2011
1 post
“He left the Bristol feeling, as he would have said, a different man. Indeed he...”
– (C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 214)
January 2011
3 posts
Our Call Never Begins Unless It's a Response
“‘You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,’ said the Lion…”
C.S. Lewis
“Justification refers to my status; sanctification to my state.”
– Anthony N.S. Lane
4 tags
The Dangers of Mixing Law and Gospel (Jason...
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.
What is being taught here (I would soon discover) is the idea that Adam was created with a desire for an eternal and spiritual quality of life beyond the temporal, “soulish” life that he originally enjoyed, and further,...
September 2010
5 posts
“I don’t know what kind of sentimental ideas you have about Jesus. Just read your...”
– John Piper
“Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a...”
– (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, p. 122)
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the...”
– 2 Tim 4:1-2
“The resurrection of Jesus Christ is intellectually credible and existentially...”
4 tags
“First, what is the ultimate Christian hope? Second, what hope is there for...”
– (N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, p. 5) 