Quotes
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Coffee with Jim
One of the things [the students at Tyndale] particularly treasured about Packer was his willingness to talk theology over the college breakfast table. The students would ask him about the great theological questions of the day—the relationship between divine sovereignty and human freedom, to give one obvious example. Packer did not give them pre-packaged answers;…
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Stories are for Putting Darkness in its Place
Overwhelmingly, in my own family and far beyond, the stories that land with the greatest impact are those where darkness, loss, and danger (emotional or physical) is a reality. But the goal isn’t to steer kids into stories of darkness and violence because those are the stories that grip readers. The goal is to put…
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Jesus the True Pontifex
Would you have your Savior to be one who is near to God, so that his meditation might be prevalent with him? And can you desire him to be nearer to God than Christ is, who is his only begotten Son, of the same essence with the Father? And would you not only have him…
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The Shepherd is the Lamb
Though Christ be now at the right-hand of God, exalted as King of heaven, and Lord of the universe; yet as he still is in the human nature, he still excels in humility. Though the man Christ Jesus be the highest of all creatures in heaven, yet he as much excels them all in humility…
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Our Growing Distrust
No fact of contemporary Western life is more evident than its growing distrust of final truth and its implacable questioning of any sure word. Carl Henry, via Greg Thornbury