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Posts Tagged ‘matthew’

Piper on Humbly Being Light in the World

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

John Piper has been blogging about how we ought to use our “economic stimulus checks” in some Christ-glorifying way, which has led to a very good discussion about balancing the tension between the following two Biblical commands:
Matthew 5:14-16

14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do [...]

Leaving Stuff Out

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

It is amazing what leaving something out can do to the meaning of an idea.
A great example of this is a new blog, Garfield Minus Garfield. From the description on the site:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar [...]

Reading in Context

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I ran across a verse the other day that made me pause…
Matthew 8:12

12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (ESV)

What’s this? The sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness? How is that even [...]