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First, we must awake fully to the importance of Yahweh's commands: give them intelligent and reverent examination, store them in memory, and study their beneficent operation.
In *The Shawshank Redemption*, there is a moment that rarely gets the attention it deserves. Red, played by Morgan Freeman, has finally been released from...
Property exists for four essential purposes: to increase the earth's produce; to preserve that produce to maturity; to cultivate and develop human nature; and to advance intellectual development.
Barnes and William Ellery Channing, articulates the multifaceted obligations each demands.
In 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was thirty-one years old and already one of Germany's most brilliant theologians. He held a doctorate and a habilitation from the...
As I sat in a quaint little café last week, I overheard a conversation between a grandmother and her young grandson. He was excitedly sharing his dreams of becoming an artist, but when he described his latest drawing, his words...
There’s a story about a young woman named Sarah who found herself in the depths of despair. She had recently graduated from college, full of dreams and aspirations, yet life had not unfolded the way she had hoped. Jobs were...
The seeds of alteration are everywhere sown, yet by strange deception, each man believes himself exempt from this universal law.
Maclaren penetrates their strategy: the mingled people—descendants of ancient northern kingdom remnants and successive waves of Assyrian and Babylonian colonists—recognized that the Jews, though numerically smaller, possessed legitimate claim to the land under Cyrus's decree.
This political maxim assigns to human morality the determinative power over public prosperity or ruin.
This distinction matters profoundly: true wisdom must manifest in *phronesis* (practical wisdom) and conduct, not remain abstract knowledge.
These were new settlers, their survival dependent upon immediately cultivating their property and erecting shelter.
The events of human life are mixed and conflicting, yet all remain under the direction of the Great Father.
In the autumn of 1937, a thirty-one-year-old German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat at his desk in Finkenwalde, a small town in Pomerania, putting the...
Actions are judged solely by present utility, not by righteousness.
The original audience resisted Elohim on two grounds: first, because He permitted His people's captivity in a distant land under oppression; second, because liberation seemed impossible, even beyond God's power to effect.
The wicked man must become hypocritical in proportion to his sin, for sin demands cunning concealment.
The Baptist rebuked Herod without provoking his anger, which reveals he spoke with gravity, temperance, sincerity, and genuine goodwill toward the king.
The Husbandman planted a choice vine on a fruitful hill, fenced it carefully, built a watchtower, and hewn a winepress—yet it brought forth wild grapes (*beushim*, worthless fruit) instead of the expected harvest of righteousness.
The rich man perverse in his ways lacks this wisdom entirely.
"It is not good to eat much honey," Solomon warns.
It is well to have Isaiahs in society, for Hezekiahs could never keep it together.
Some suppose we must love our neighbour with the same *selfish* affection we naturally direct toward ourselves, yet such self-love is sinful and cannot be our model.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.—Piety a peculiar ornament to the aged. I. Who may properly be called old people? Old and young are relative terms admitting different significations. Children always think their parents are old. Those who...