The Week August 23-30, 2015
Ethics, poetry, communal memories, transhumanity, and the Bug – the Bug?
What Could Be Common about Grace? (Common Grace, Part 1)
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5.44, 45
Reason not enough
In his book, How the West Won, Rodney Stark argues that Western culture and the modern worldview came to prevail through the centuries on the strength of sound reason. If we want to understand why science, the arts, technology, business, education, and government, based on Western models, are the preferred forms and systems throughout the developed world, the answer is the power of sound reason.
Pray for Your Pastor
Do your pastors and shepherds know you pray for them?
Everyday Idols, Every Day
The Law of God for Daily Meditation
Morning Meditation
Deuteronomy 6.13-15
13You shall fear the LORDyour God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. 14You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who areall around you 15(for the Lord your God isa jealous God among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.
If…
1 Peter 2.1-3
1Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord isgracious.
Psalm 105:42-45
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant. So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing. And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil, that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the […]
