There is a widespread myth that Roe v. Wade is settled and entitled to respect as judicial precedent. The purveyors of that myth must ignore the US Supreme Court’s decisions going back to the earliest days of the Court which point to judicial criticism and legal-scholarly criticism as keeping prior decisions unsettled. Most importantly, they must ignore …
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. Quinn, Benjamin T. Christ the Way: Augustine’s Theology of Wisdom. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. At the end of the first paragraph of his Confessions, Augustine famously wrote, “for Thou hast made us for Thee and our heart is [restless] …
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27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 28 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. Genesis 25:27-28 (ESV) 3 Now Israel [Jacob] loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son …
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series featuring outstanding excerpts from student papers at the BibleMesh Institute, which offers affordable online training for local churches, schools, and ministries. The author’s name has been withheld for privacy and security purposes. He is preparing to serve as a missionary overseas. Salvation is an act that …
In pastoral ministry the pulpit’s demand is perpetual and relentless. After all, it is preachers who pastor congregations effectively. The regular form in which biblical faith finds its expression in the church is the sermon, a message drawing out of a biblical text or passage whatever the Spirit of God has put into it for …
The exceptional preacher of the early Church, “golden-mouth” Chrysostom became Bishop of Constantinople in AD 397. He used his position to encourage godly behavior by Christians, not least in their marriages. In an exposition of Ephesians 5:22-33, he counsels husbands and wives to fulfill their God-given roles, beginning with wives submitting to their husbands. As he does, he …
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