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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are le...more

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Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point tha...more

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We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and g...more

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The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

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Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memori...more

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What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

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Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

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Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but ...more

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty o...more

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To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house ...more

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Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

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After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King S...more

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Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.