The “Bible code” is not mysterious or secret. The Bible code is clearly presented before our eyes in almost every page of scripture. Furthermore, the key to the "code" is Jesus.
Top Reads This Week (5/31 – 6/6)
The following links are to articles I've read in the past 7 days that I found particularly stimulating and/or insightful. Enjoy!
everyone's sad
He's the soundtrack when your heart is breaking. This is kind of his whole deal: sad music for sad people.
Liberalism: Defined By Its Starting Point
Liberty and equality for the sake of liberty and equality cannot sustain itself. Liberty and equality must be for something, it must be toward something.
Church Calendars, National Calendars, & Hallmark Calendars
Individual choice, instant gratification, and sensory titillation are stalwarts in the American church because they are stalwarts in American secularism: the true enculturating power behind much of American Christianity. The church has been called to be a new world within the bounds of an old world. Yet we seem to content ourselves with the ways and world of the first Adam even while we are called to pray for the kingdom of the second Adam to come on Earth as it is in heaven.
Looking Forward
This isn’t something I can just do away with. I can’t remove it from me. I wish I could. I have spent many nights, praying, crying, weeping for God to take it away. Crying because I keep failing. Weeping because I don’t know that I will ever be able to have the family and life that I so desperately crave, and instead the feeling of impending loneliness descends on me.
Sluggish Imaginations
The task of our day, much like C.S. Lewis proposed in The Abolition of Man, is a recovery of the imagination. Modern culture has indoctrinated us from our earliest years that the world is a powerful and pointless machine that cannot be stopped. All too often we do not have the imaginative powers to overcome this lie. But the first step to overcoming all evils is to see the evil for what it is. Perhaps Christians will begin to heed the warnings of the likes of Eliot, Percy, and Lewis and question whether they have succumb to the numbness of Modernity and their imaginations too are sluggish.
Top Reads This Week (5/24 – 5/30)
Here I compile the best things I've read online from this past week!
How ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Met My Anger
For shame, Mr. Thomas. For shame, Mr. Bays.
Christianity in the Movies
All too often we believe that externals are not important. Style,
A Morbid Form of Self-Analysis
As moderns, we tend to believe that we are capable of objectively removing ourselves from our relationship with Christ and stand outside of it and judge it properly. Not only is this impossible, it would be a sinful approach to things even if we were capable of doing it.
In Medias Res: On Landing a Plane in a Narrow Canyon
They have caused me to drop my axe onto the floor of the smithy, scattering the metal dust that has collected below the workbench vice of my old grinding. Perhaps the dissolving of conviction amounts to apathy towards those theological spheres that once had a fairly high premium with me.
Book Review: NIV Single-Column Bible
The softcover NIV Single-Column Bible is very reader friendly. Unlike “reader bibles” which remove verses and chapters for readability, the SCB also works well as a church bible and home study bible.
Devilish Musings (Part 2)
"I am not the Samaritan. I am not the priest or the Levite. I am the ill intent."
Pardon My Sneezes
Pardon my sneezes, but like Detective Del Spooner, "I'm allergic to bullsh*t."
Book Review: NIV Discover God’s Heart Devotional Bible
Discover God’s Heart Devotional Bible provides wonderful devotions for a straight-through reading of the Scriptures. I am not sure how valuable it will be as a long-term Bible. But I am once again impressed with the quality of devotional/study material put forth by Zondervan.
Life Changing Eschatology
Just ask yourself, “How does your eschatology transform your daily living?” “Does it produce hope and boldness or fear?” “Are you acting as an ambassador of our reigning King?”
Grace is Not an Object
Salvation isn't a punched ticket to heaven. Grace is not some sort of ephemeral substance that must be used like gasoline, but only for the human soul.
Devilish Musings (Part 1)
"Meaning righteous men have a duty to stand up to evil," Murdock says.
"One interpretation," the priest answers. "Another is, that when the righteous succumb to sin, it is as harmful as if the public well were poisoned."
In Which The Means of Grace Kick Ass
But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.” For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through