Friday Findings—May 25

Friday Findings—May 25

Abortion and the Problem of Personhood “Peel off all the Fourth of July, freedom-and-rights-talk niceties, and here we have the core of the pro-choice argument, ‘You are not a human person if I don’t want you to be. And I have the power to make it so.’” ...
Book of the Month Fellowship Postponed

Book of the Month Fellowship Postponed

The book that we picked for this month was certainly a challenge! So that as many as possible will be able to participate in our coffee and cookies book discussion and fellowship, we have postponed it until Sunday Night, June 12. A sign-up sheet will be in the...
Jonathan Edwards…. Yet Speaking

Jonathan Edwards…. Yet Speaking

Though christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting enemies without us; yet it much more appears in resisting and suppressing the enemies that are within us; because they are our worst and strongest enemies, and have greatest advantage against us. The...
January 21, 1525

January 21, 1525

Believer’s baptism is re-instituted by the Swiss Brethren in Zurich. It is almost universally agreed, even by those scholars whose churches do not practice it today, that baptism by immersion upon profession of faith was the normative practice of the earliest church....
Unfortunate Conclusions

Unfortunate Conclusions

I once knew a man who firmly believed the following syllogism [step by step logical formula]: The Bible says the thoughts of the righteous are right: (Proverbs 12:5) I have been made righteous in Christ, and so I am therefore righteous. Therefore, all of my thoughts...
And I Quote—May 23

And I Quote—May 23

A movement that cannot or will not draw boundaries, or that allows the modern cultural fear of exclusion to set its theological agenda, is doomed to lose its doctrinal identity. Once it does, it will drift from whatever moorings it may have had in historic...