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Apr 5
2 min

The Lord of the Rings: A Golden Age of Hollywood Cast

I think about strange things sometimes, and recently one of those strange things was a question concerning the Lord of the Rings films. I...

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Mar 23
6 min

Is the COVID Vaccine the Mark of the Beast?

No. May I leave it at that? Probably not. A few days ago, I received an email from a long-time acquaintance of mine asking me whether the...

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Mar 22
6 min

My 5 Favorite Puritan Authors

Over the last year, I did a lot of reading in the old Puritan authors (I'm not going to get into the interminable debate over the...

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Mar 19
4 min

The Corridor of Time

In discussions with Arminians, I've often heard election described in words something like this. When the Bible talks about election, all...

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Mar 9
6 min

The Luck O' The Hobbit

For many adult readers of The Hobbit, the amount of apparent good luck enjoyed by Bilbo Baggins and his companions on their adventure can...

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Mar 8
5 min

The Misplaced Marian Emphasis of Roman Catholicism

One of the most noticeable features of Roman Catholicism is its doctrinal and practical emphasis on Mary, the mother of Jesus. Every...

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Mar 5
2 min

The Present Emergency and How to Meet It

In 1935, J. Gresham Machen delivered a series of radio messages on various aspects of Reformed theology. The first series of messages was...

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Mar 4
2 min

Thomas Boston on Discontentment

Thomas Boston (1676–1732) on some of the qualities that agree with discontentment: *** "1st, It is the noted rebel in the kingdom of...

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Feb 26
4 min

Richard Sibbes on Vainglory

While reading some of the works of the Puritan Richard Sibbes (1577–1635), I ran across the following words on vainglory. Sibbes is well...

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Feb 25
2 min

How to be a Modern Progressive

Step One: Insist that there is no such thing as the truth. Insist that there is only your truth and my truth and that both truths are...

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