Tag Archives: Culture

Distracting Ourselves To Death

In a recent post I mentioned how the chaos of life often contributes greatly to my distraction from the things we as Christians ought to focus on. The Lord has a funny way of pressing topics home to me, often from unexpected sources. This afternoon I was listening to the White Horse Inn, a podcast [...]

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The Waste of Glory

I have a complaint against you, oh generation of mine. You have at your fingers resources that no other generation has had throughout all of history, and yet, for the most part, you are less intelligent, less disciplined, and less mature. It is a sad thing indeed to look out upon the plains of Christianity [...]

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Bred in Captivity

Men live in places that stifle their souls, waiting for more of the same, and so they grow up shriveled like a boy in a cage with no way to see the sky or climb trees or play guns or draw dragons or stop and stare in wonder at something bigger than himself. Men are [...]

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Rest|Progress

We are the last of our kind; the slow flutter, stream trickle that winds through the veins of an earth that must gain speed, lest it totter and fall like a top, spun by a child whirling in all its madness until the pull of momentum is gone. We are the fingers at the edges [...]

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The Judgment Gospel

“I believe that much of our evangelistic and personal work today is not clear simply because we are too anxious to get to the answer without having a man realize the real cause of his sickness, which is true moral guilt (and not just psychological guilt feelings) in the presence of God. But the same [...]

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