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God's Common Sense
Unfortunately, man cannot for long endure the common sense of God. Side by side with Christianity, and often mistaken for it, there has always existed ...
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Contrasting Law and Gospel
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
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Ceremony Won't Change the Heart
When Ole quit farming and moved, he discovered he was the only Lutheran in his new town of all Catholics. That was okay, but the neighbors had a problem ...
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Lenten Stillness
At my house, the TV is off. It will be until Easter. The first time this happened, it was unintentional.
Some years ago, a few weeks before Easter, a burglar ...
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Musician Moby Likes People a Little Wild
Pop star Moby reveals in a Rolling Stone interview:
"I think it's really dull when people are just ascetic, and they never go out and do stupid ...
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John Stott on Materialism
Comfort is dangerous, and we should constantly be re-examining our lifestyle. The New Testament is beautifully balanced on this. Paul avoids both extremes, ...
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The Feast That Cost Everything
There's a wonderful story by Isak Dinesen called Babette's Feast, about a strict, dour, fundamentalist community in Denmark. Babette works as a cook for ...
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Man Burns His Possessions to Find Happiness
British style writer Neil Boorman has decided to burn every branded thing in his possession. "I am addicted to brands," he confessed in a magazine article: ...
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Chesterton on Getting Money
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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CEO Focused on Materialistic Competition
Peggy Noonan describes an encounter with an American CEO in her book John Paul the Great:
I am talking with the head of a mighty American corporation. ...
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