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Galatians

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”
The great historian Sir William Ramsay once wrote that Paul’s epistle to the Galatians was the greatest letter ever written. Reading it in light of Paul’s intentions—which were well known in Ramsay’s time—one catches a glimpse of Paul’s towering genius. These words are a [...]

7Feb2010 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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A New Direction

As human beings are free, morally responsible creatures, our greatest need is to become good—both for the sake of life in this world and for the sake of that which is to come. My posts up to this point have dealt with the need we have to be good in light of our eternal future. [...]

2Jun2009 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Qualities and Relations

No discussion of sexuality could be complete without considering marriage, abortion, homosexuality, and the nature of the masculine and feminine. I will try to examine at least a few of these. However, there are certain relevant facts needed before one can make progress in this direction. All of these issues are politically [...]

26Nov2007 | Nathan | 1 comment | Continued
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Where We Stand

Although it is helpful to have a comprehensive vision of education, equally important is an understanding of where we actually stand as a society with regard to education. The prominence of our institutions of higher learning may deceive us into thinking that people are being adequately educated every day. Rather, the opposite is true. Seeing [...]

31Oct2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Adequate Education

Receiving or obtaining an adequate education is something that takes time. It cannot be done in a year or two– there is too much to learn. And if we do not have people teaching us who know what they are doing, our education is likely to be full of gaps.
Education can [...]

24Oct2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Knowledge and Choice

In our lives we are constantly faced with choices. These choices may be rather trivial: where to eat lunch, for example. Or they may be serious: how to raise a child. They may regard things in the short term: which gym should I join? Or long term: how should I [...]

24Oct2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Political Ideas

There are many ideas that keep the mind from knowing God, but probably the deepest and most difficult ideas are political ideas. This is for several reasons. First, these ideas are often shared by everybody and so we never hear them challenged. This is true in our culture when the [...]

30Sep2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Christ the King

The book of Revelation in the New Testament is one of the most controversial texts in all of Scripture. So much so that people often don’t read the whole book; and don’t examine the parts of it that are not in dispute.
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9Aug2007 | Nathan | 2 comments | Continued
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Classical Christian Education

Many people are coming to realize the insufficiency of our public forms of education. Something must be done. Some say that what is needed is “Classical Christian Education” and I think that they are right. It is the Christian, and more generally Western, tradition that holds the key to our success. [...]

10Jun2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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Natural Values

When we are thinking about our lives and what we hope them to be like, we have to think long-term if we are going to live them well. It is almost inevitable that both bad and good things will happen to us, and so if we hope for things always to be easy and [...]

6Jun2007 | Nathan | 0 comments | Continued
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