I have just spent one of those long nights wrestling with the human soul. Martin Lloyd-Jones speaks of voices talking to us, e.g. thoughts, whispers from the enemy, past regrets, guilt, a sense of purposelessness. And on last night’s New Year’s, they seem to come in droves. Adding to that has been a subsequent dry [...]
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
I Have Felt God in the Storms
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized, tagged God, hope, psalms on January 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Louis Farrakhan on Barack Obama, Churches, and Satan’s Rule
Posted in Culture, Politics, Race, Religion, tagged America, connection, Farrakhan, Obama, Satan on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Satan doesn’t intend to be uprooted by an upstart from Chicago” –Louis Farrakhan
I am posting this because I think that it is informative and noteworthy. Obviously, Obama has said that he has rejected “Minister Farrakhan’s” remarks. The following was posted on Youtube, and I find Farrakhan to be masterful at playing the secret knowledge card [...]
Oswald Chambers on the Discipline of Dejection– (Part IV)
Posted in Culture, Education, Religion on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“But we trusted…and beside all this, today is the third day…” Luke 24:21
Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. [...]
Personal Thoughts On Discipline (Part II)
Posted in Culture, Education, Religion, tagged discipline, Hebrews 12 on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an eight-post series on discipline continued in the next four parts with the writings of the Scottish Oswald Chambers who lived for only 42 years but not before writing a beautiful meditation, My Utmost for His Highest. The writer of Hebrews reminds us that the Lord disciplines those whom He loves. Reading Martin [...]
Favorite G.K. Chesterton Passages
Posted in Art, Literature, Religion, tagged chesterton quotes, Thomas Aquinas on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
G.K. Chesterton (1818-1901), the great British mystery writer and Dickens critic, wrote a life of Thomas Aquinas called The Dumb Ox, a pejorative leveled at Aquinas’ bulking presence and quietude by some of his fellow students. Chesterton asserts that nothing could be further from the truth and spends the whole of the book praising Aquinas’ [...]
Politics and Religion Do Mix
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged discourse, freedom of religion, Politics, Religion on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Marshall from the Hudson Institute makes the case that religion is not something to be so easily dismissed from the public arena; rather, Marshall argues, we ought to encourage robust and insightful discourse if we understand that freedom and economic liberty is often linked to the level of religious freedom:
This faith-drenched political primary season [...]
The Advantage of Not Reading the Bible
Posted in Education, Religion, tagged audio Bible, Christian experience, literacy, reading on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Zondervan recently published an audio Bible, “Inspired by the Bible Experience,” which was the 2007 Audio Book of the Year. I bought the 79 CDS, which is the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation, for $99 at the Christian Bookstore for my wife for Christmas. My wife, whose second language is English, looks forward to [...]
The Mohammed Teddy Bear and Jesus Doll: Between the Hostile Holy and Wholly Absurd
Posted in Culture, Religion, tagged christian, commericialism, Evangelicals, Mohammed, Muslim on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the Sudan, a British teacher benignly asked what the children would like to name the class teddy bear. Two weeks later, Gillian Gibbons heard the chants calling for her death from her prison cell and realized that sometimes one ought not to emulate forms of European democracy in a Sudanese classroom. This is the [...]
My 3-Minute Caucus Speech for Mike Huckabee
Posted in Politics, Religion, tagged caucus, faith, huckabee, speech on January 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I delivered the following address on behalf of Mike Huckabee to over a thousand people at North Middle School:
Isn’t democracy great? My wife grew up in Communist Vietnam, and this is really something for her to see.
Mike Huckabee is the best man we have because he is a man of character with the courage of [...]
Stop Lying about Huckabee and Evangelicals!
Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion, tagged Christians, Evangelicals, huckabee, media on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Buy the line that Mike Huckabee could only win in Iowa because of the Evangelicals and that he has been playing identity politics with Christians? I live in Iowa. My precinct chose Huckabee fourth behind Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Fred Thompson. And yet Huckabee came out on top with a big tent: the working [...]
