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…
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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…
Good Reads 02/24/18
What I’ve Been Reading, Listening to, and Watching this Week Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God What Jonathan Edwards says: “O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in…
Economics 101: Work
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion … Genesis 1:28 Man was created to work. The objective of that work, as seen in the cultural mandate of Genesis 1:28, was to prepare the world as a dwelling place for God and man. God provided the Garden of Eden…
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter and Andrew Schiff
Peter and Andrew Schiff wrote How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes based on the book by their father, Irwin, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t. It combines simple explanations and cartoon-like illustrations on almost every page to lay out clearly the effects of government intervention in the market. It begins with…