Martin Luther wrote, “A Christian man is a free lord over all things and subject to nobody. A Christian man is a ministering servant in all things and subject to everybody.”1 It seems that great men have always had a sense of true servanthood. I don’t believe that great men ever wanted to be great; […]
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Author: Rick Shrader
No Past, No Future, No God!
Blaise Pascal wrote, “We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is.”1 It seems that in times of unbelief, the […]
Loving The Brethren: an additional persp...
There is no more difficult command in the Bible than for each one of us to love the brethren. This isn’t just a worldly love in the family or emotional sense, it is agape love that gives of itself because it is right to give. Perhaps there is no more direct application to G.K. Chesterton’s […]
We Have This Treasure In Earthly Vessels
A look at Christian selfishness Savonarola once wrote, “In the primitive church the chalices were of wood and the prelates were of gold; to-day the prelates are of wood and the chalices are of gold.”1 Paul told the Corinthians that we are less than wood, we are clay (“ostraka”) vessels. “Clay vessels are cheap, utterly […]
The Obvious Lie
Mark Twain once said, “The secret of success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”1 He should have been living today, we would hire him to teach leadership seminars. And it wouldn’t matter whether it was business, politics or church, the image we present has become more important than what we […]
The Real Issue of the Dimpled Ballots
The real issue of the election was not how to count the Florida votes. That game had been played many times before in major cities where the outcome of close elections had to be secured. No, the real issue was played out in the Supreme Court of Florida and of the United States. It is […]
Culture: The Incarnation Of Our Religion
There may be no more important word in today’s Christian vocabulary than “culture.” R.C. Sproul wrote, “Adjusting to the customs and worldview of one’s environment is one of the strongest pressures people experience. To be ‘out of it’ culturally is often considered the nadir of social achievement.”1 Everything has to be relevant to the culture […]
If Everything Is A Miracle, Nothing Is A...
It is the opinion of the contributors to this volume that a number of new authorities threaten modern evangelicalism directly. These authorities are often grounded in what the above confession calls “custom, or numbers, or human wisdom, or judgments . . . or visions, or miracles,” and they must be challenged when they stand against […]
The Words Are Still What Count
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled? I’m late with this article. I have spent the first five days of November in Los Angeles […]
The Absent Second Person
If eternity and universality is to be found, not in dogma, but in worship—that means, in a common form of worship which will mean to the worshippers anything that they like to fancy, then the result seems to me to be likely to be the most corrupt form of ritualism. T.S. Eliot1 G.K. Chesterton […]