The meeting of the American Medical Association in the year 1865 seemed not only to be fractured by the Civil War, but also by the research of a fellow doctor who dared to stand forth and condemn a practice rapidly growing in the United States. Not only was the practice of abortion secretly expanding, legal […]
Early Conscience of the AMA—Horatio Robinson Storer (1830 – 1922) Read Post »
Interested in learning Biblical Greek? BibleMesh Biblical Languages will guide you to become a confident reader of the biblical text—and it begins with taking your first steps. Find out more and get our Greek First Steps course for free. Apart from on a few occasions where Jesus’s words are given in Aramaic (for example Mark
Did Jesus Speak Greek? Read Post »
One has sinned, Another has made satisfaction. The sinner does not make satisfaction; the Satisfier does not sin. This is an astounding doctrine. Lectures on Isaiah Chapters 40-66 in Luther’s Works, vol. 17 (St. Louis, Concordia Publishing House, 1972), 99. There is much to be said both for and against Luther (1483-1546), but he speaks to us
A Fragment of Sublime Simplicity from Luther Read Post »
29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30 take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these
America is caught up in a new great awakening. Students of Christian history in America will recall the revivals that swept the nation, leading to repentance and renewed spiritual fervor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ours is a similar revival, touching all of society. Scores of people confess their sins daily, renounce the ways
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Anyone who hangs around me long enough will eventually hear me congratulate a film for being “redemptive.” This often brings a puzzled look to the faces of my friends. They thought the film was “entertaining” or “inspiring” or “informative” or “provocative.” They want to know why I am so insistent that even the darkest or
What Makes Art “Redemptive”? Read Post »
