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To The Christian Reader The Puritans maintained a high view of family, seeing it as a brick in the larger structure of both church and society. These bricks can be solid, true, and square—or of a mealy, crumbling, and warped quality. The
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“Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important.
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.”
― The Pursuit of Holiness
The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.”
― The Pursuit of Holiness
“But while he wasn’t shy about correcting their erroneous interpretations of Scripture, there is no indication that Jesus ever thought his fellow Jews to have too high a view of Scripture. And if they had been wrong on such an essential matter, he would not have gone along with the flow. He would have corrected their beliefs about the Bible just as he chastised them for other “doctrines of men.”
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
“The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.”
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
― Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
“Technology may have changed, but God's truth and the human condition never change, and we see that clearly through the unfolding patterns of Christian history.”
― Church History: A Crash Course for the Curious
― Church History: A Crash Course for the Curious
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness. If the most reasonable excuse be rejected, few acts of obedience will be found impossible; and guilt must tremble, where innocence cannot always be secure. The tranquillity of the people, and the discipline of the troops, were best maintained by perpetual action in the field; war was the trade of the Janizaries;”
― History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6
― History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6
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