by Brian | Sep 22, 2015 | Culture, Monday Study Notes
Last night we took the evening to glean from a story which spans the 17th and 18th chapters of the book of Judges. Here are the notes: After reading Judges 17 and 18, notice how many, and how deep, the layers of sin are. I count at least 20 instances of something...
by Brian | Aug 12, 2015 | Culture
Monday night, as part of our study, we read in Isaiah chapter 5, where the prophet pronounces a “woe” on those “who call evil good and good evil.” In his commentary on Isaiah, Alec Motyer has a particularly insightful section dealing with this...
by Brian | Jul 1, 2015 | Culture, Theology
Thomas Oden, on why we humans have messed up thoughts apart from God’s wisdom. [My thoughts are indented to the left and italicized.]: Modern secular piety claims on the simple grounds of creation a natural relation with God unimpeded by sin. Note: Catch that...
by Brian | Jun 26, 2015 | Culture, Current Events
I have in front of me a printout of the full Obergefell v. Hodges decision handed down by the Supreme Court today. I plan on working through it in the next few days. If you’d like to join me, you can download it and print it out here. Already, as we have come to...
by Brian | Jun 15, 2015 | Culture
We continue with wisdom for picking a career from Tim Keller’s book Every Good Endeavor. What wisdom, then, would the Bible give us in choosing our work?… First, if we have the luxury of options, we would want to choose work that we can do well. It should...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2015 | Culture
One of the unique things about the time and place we inhabit is that we are given choice for so many things. Young adults have the particularly odd privilege of being able to choose their career. Think about it—in how many places, for how much of history, has a young...
