Crumbs from the Master's Table

"Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refu...

In the vein of Ambrose Bierce's The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary : Reformation Day, n. That one day of the year when Protestants ...

Calvin: The final goal of the blessed life, moreover, rests in the knowledge of God. Lest anyone, then, be excluded from access to happine...

It is not unusual for (post)modern evangelicals to sound the alarms arm in arm with the secularists about the pending doom of creation if we...

I participated in a peaceful Planned Parenthood protest today in Aurora, IL, which was part of a  nationwide protest effort . It went well. ...

Chesterton: What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled up...

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason" (G. K. Cheste...

"Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved" (G. K. Che...

A sober piece by Ross Douthat of the New York Times:  "Looking Away From Abortion." Here's an excerpt: The reluctance to l...

"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's Majest...

"Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves...

R. R. Reno: Abortion is declining in America. A recent report puts the drop at 12 percent nationwide since 2010. Part of the decline undou...

In " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738, Edwards speaks of what God-centered anger looks like: If men's...

Edwards, from " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738: Persons sin in their anger with respect to the occasion ...

Here's a definition of anger, slightly modified from Jonathan Edwards: "An intense, earnest, and passionate opposition of one...

"Until lions have their historians, the hunter will always be the hero of the story." —As recalled by Michael W. Goheen, Introduci...

"There are [those] who in their love to their own happiness place their happiness in good things which are confined and limited to them...

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Edwards: Envy may be defined, a spirit of opposition to others' comparative happiness, or to the happiness of others considered as com...