13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (ESV) In his famous book of poems, Lays of Ancient Rome, the English author Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) recorded the legend of Horatius. Faced with an Etruscan army about to destroy Rome, Horatius, and his …
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 a missionary in Northeast Asia. Sometimes in life the Lord calls us …
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. Certain doctrines of Reformed theology, and their associated sub-doctrines, are brought into the limelight more than others. For example, there is a rich endowment of Protestant works on the doctrine of justification.[1] One cannot say the same, however, of the sub-doctrine …
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Who or what is in the womb of a pregnant mother? Answers to that question have ranged historically from a fully-formed miniature human being—called a homunculus—to a blob of tissue. A 2002 book shows us how twenty-first-century medical imaging technology has given us a clear window to the womb. Photographer Alexander Tsiaras and author Barry Werth …
Jesus, Truth, and Logic I recently read that Jesus didn’t believe the laws of logic, in particular the law of non-contradiction. Apparently the laws of logic are at home in an Aristotelian worldview, whereas Jews had no problem simultaneously holding conflicting ideas (e.g., Proverbs 26:4-5). The author also suggested that truth and knowledge are entirely personal (thereby …
Perhaps my favorite of John Bunyan’s works is his little volume titled The Jerusalem Sinner Saved. It is really an exposition of Luke 24:47, Luke’s expression of the Great Commission, in which the Lord Jesus tells his disciples to preach the gospel “beginning at Jerusalem.” The people of the city and its leaders had repeatedly rejected, scorned, …