Read moreWhatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.
A piquant comment from Canadian professor Jordan Peterson: Whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.
Read moreMost evangelicals today no longer forbid going to the movies, nor do we engage in earnest Francis Schaeffer-style critiques of the films we see—we simply go to the movies and, in the immortal word of Keanu Reeves, say, “Whoa.” We walk out of the movie theater amused, titillated, distracted or thrilled, just like our fellow consumers who do not share our faith. If anything, when I am among evangelical Christians I find that they seem to be more avidly consuming the latest offerings of commercial culture, whether Pirates of the Caribbean or The Simpsons or The Sopranos, than many of my non-Christian neighbors. They are content to be just like their fellow Americans, or perhaps, driven by a lingering sense of shame at their uncool forebears, just slightly more like their fellow Americans than anyone else.
—Andy Crouch, Culture-Making, 89.
Most evangelicals today no longer forbid going to the movies, nor do we engage in earnest Francis Schaeffer-style critiques of the films we see—we simply go to the movies and, in the immortal word of Keanu Reeves, say, "Whoa." We walk out of the movie theater amused,...
There are only two basic categories: the Creator and the created. If we do not worship God, we will focus on something in creation and elevate it to the status of divinity. We will worship a false god. Our intrinsically religious nature will never allow us not to...
But we must not be content with walking in this way; we must seek to "delight in it." Delight is the marrow of religion. "God loveth a cheerful giver," and accepts obedience only when it is given, not when it is forced. He loves the service of that man, who considers...
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
A difficulty with much biographical preaching ... is that it typically fails to honor the care that the Bible takes to tarnish almost every patriarch or saint within its pages. Without blushing, the Bible honestly presents the human frailties of its most significant...
A modern liberal arts education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad. But...
We not only have no desire to deny, we rather wish to proclaim, the great truth involved in the watchword of the greatest of the fathers and schoolmen, Credo ut intelligam ["I believe in order to understand"], and adopted by the Reformers in the maxim of Fides...
Today there is no suggestive music anymore, because "suggestive" implies a measure of subtlety.
In place of my much-loved Latin hymns and chants, the new liturgists bade us sing old Reformation anthems like "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." I could not bring myself to join in when the chosen hymn was "Amazing Grace"—in fact, I still refuse to do so. It's a lovely...