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Sep 15, 2020
9 min

The Most Important Church Father You’ve Never Heard Of

Many evangelical Christians have heard of Athanasius, Augustine, Irenaeus, perhaps even Tertullian or John Chrysostom. Cyril of...

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Sep 14, 2020
1 min

Misplaced Priorities?

Imagine that you know you are going to live to the age of one hundred. Now imagine you have to spend the first five minutes of your...

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Sep 11, 2020
3 min

Classic Reformed Systematic Theology Texts Online

There are a lot of things I dislike about the Internet, but it can serve useful purposes as well. For example, it is now much easier to...

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Sep 10, 2020
3 min

Digital Friends

Years ago, I told one of my colleagues my personal tongue-in-cheek definition of a “friend.” A friend, I told him, is a person whose...

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Sep 9, 2020
7 min

Did Bigfoot Assassinate JFK?

In 1993, comedian Mike Myers starred in a movie titled So I Married an Axe Murderer. In this film, Myers plays Charlie Mackenzie, a...

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Sep 4, 2020
2 min

The Lord Looks on the Heart

We all know the story of what happened after God rejected Saul. Samuel was sent to anoint the king whom God had chosen to replace Saul (1...

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Sep 3, 2020
3 min

A Theological Dictionary (More or Less)

Over the centuries, theologians and biblical scholars have created a large number of technical terms. Sometimes, when I read or say one...

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Sep 2, 2020
5 min

Even Atheists Have Faith

Many atheists and skeptics pit faith and reason against each other as if a person who has faith does not use his reason and a person who...

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Sep 1, 2020
2 min

The Scythe Song

Many people are familiar with Dougie Maclean's beautiful homesickness song Caledonia. He has a number of other great songs as well. One...

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Aug 31, 2020
8 min

Let's Think About This For a Moment

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is...

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