Idaho appears the national leader now in bringing sanity to our health care system. Not that you would know it from the many complaints about what they are doing, as seen in the article in The New York Times: Some groups representing patients, including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the lobbying…
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Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
I have been aware of Allen Drury for some time because I had one of the sequels to Advise and Consent in my bookshelf–it was from my mother’s library. When I saw that National Review listed Advise and Consent as one of the best conservative novels, I decided I had to read it. Since I…
Feasting on Christ: A Bible Study on Love
My new book, Feasting on Christ: A Bible Study on Love (available on Amazon and as a free pdf download), is the first in the Feasting on Christ Bible study series. This study was originally prepared for use in prison. But that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have an application for those who have never been to…
Six Reasons Reformed Christians Should Embrace Six-Day Creation
The great debate of our time is the exact same debate that took place at the beginning of the world: under whose authority do we live? Adam and Eve decided it was under their own authority, although soon they discovered they had been deceived and had in fact placed themselves under Satan’s authority. The world today still…
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989 by Steven Hayward
After having already finished Hayward’s first book on Reagan (his pre-presidential years in politics), The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989 confirms that Hayward is so far the best biographer of Ronald Reagan. If you want to understand Reagan and his brand of conservatism–which along with William F. Buckley, Jr.’s were the cornerstones of…
Good Reads 03/03/18
What I’ve Been Reading, Listening to, and Watching this Week Christian Worldview What R. C. Sproul Says: “It’s been said that no civilization can function without some unifying philosophical perspective. Even if you have all different kinds of views (humanism, existentialism, positivism, hedonism, and pluralism) competing, there must be some kind of overarching atmosphere of…
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
It is hard to explain how good these books are. The story of Janner Igiby, his brother Tink, their crippled sister Leeli takes the reader through a world that is both strange and familiar at the same time. It is a world ruled by Fangs of Dang who become more evil and efficient as the children get closer to…
The Source of All Knowledge and Wisdom
Everything we know, everything we understand, comes from God God is: Eternal, Spirit, Infinite, Immutable, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Holy, Perfect, Love, Beauty, Good, Mercy, Truth, Righteous, Just God is the source of all: Holiness, Perfection, Love, Beauty, Goodness, Mercy, Truth, Righteousness, Justice Two means of revelation: Creation (general) and Scripture (special) Everything that unbelieving scientists know and understand is…
Fighting Baptists and Fussy Presbyterians
Baptists still know how to fight. I am a Presbyterian, but I sometimes think that all the fighting Presbyterians were killed in the American War for Independence. Modern Presbyterians are unparalleled at writing histories of battles, and three-inch thick theologies of surface-to-air missiles. So credit where credit is due. John Frame once wrote about the…
Two Paths – A Study of Proverbs 18
There are two paths that people follow in this world: The Path to Destruction (Proverbs 2:12-19): “For [the] house [of the seductress] leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.” The Path of Righteousness (Proverbs 12:28) “In the…