some thoughts

Reaping the Seeds of Modernism…

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In an Islamic culture, the existence of a truly democratic state (including, but not limited to, liberty of conscience, freedom of association, religious liberty, etc.) is impossible. To be fair, it was also impossible in the time of Joshua. And, it will be impossible again when the True Joshua returns to take, not the land […]

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Announcing the birth of my niece, Elasia Hope Gahagan, born Wednesday, March 22nd to parents Evita and Adam Gahagan, of New York City.
Yeehaw! I’m an uncle!

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After a brief prologue, our Declaration of Independance contains the following:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, […]

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I’ve just come across Abraham Kuyper’s much-heralded Stone Lectures (Six Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, 1898 under the auspices of the L. P. Stone Foundation, later published in 1943 by Eerdmans under the title Lectures on Calvinism) available online compliments of The Kuyper Foundation.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
If the [cultural] battle is to be fought with […]

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If you’re like me, verses like these have plagued you for hours (if not years!):
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he […]

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The sum of the divine commands is thus: “Love me above all things; that is, look upon me as thy only chief good; hunger and thirst after me; place the whole of thy happiness in me alone; seek me above all, and nothing besides me, but so far as it has a relation to me.” […]

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