Warfield (quoted in Keller’s Ministries of Mercy): Objection 1. “My money is my own.” Answer: Christ might have said, “my blood is my own, my life is my own.” Then where should we have been? Objection 2. “The poor are undeserving.” Answer: Christ might have said, “They are wicked rebels . . . shall I […]
CS Lewis on the Importance of Reading Old Books
Lewis (from “On the Reading of Old Books,” God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics and quoted in Piper’s God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards): There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the […]
Why Should We Help Those Who Brought Themselves to Poverty Through Their Own Sin?
To say “this person is poor (or suffering or in other financial hardship) because of their own sin and therefore should not be helped” is to utterly misunderstand the love of God. Jonathan Edwards nails this: If they are come to want by a vicious idleness and prodigality [wastefulness]; yet we are not thereby excused […]
Should We Pursue Obedience to God or Joy in God?
Piper, from God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards: Sometimes people ask: should we pursue obedience to God or joy in God? Edwards would answer: The question involves a category confusion. It’s like asking: should I pursue fruit or apples? Obedience is doing what we’re told. And we are told to […]
Avoid Overparenting
From Kevin Leman’s book What a Difference a Daddy Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter’s Life: A dad who overparents will smother his daughter. He is positive he knows just how his little girl should turn out, and he’ll raise her to be like a seal that claps its hands when […]
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