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Paul tells us that the god of this world blinds the hearts of unbelievers. So their conclusions about eternal things further Satan's cause. Others, like Pascal, see with God-given perception, and truth is advanced, for those who have ears to listen.
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Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
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The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
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To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
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These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
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What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
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Richard Dawkins, Meet Blaise Pascal
April 17, 2009
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal PENSEES
Oxford educated Richard Dawkins has become the poster child for athiesm. If T. H. Huxley was Darwin's bulldog, then Dawkins has rightfully earned the title of Darwin's rottweiler!
Advocating natural selection, Dawkins has made it his personal mission to debunk a supernatural creator, and his loud protests against God have accellerated recently, including a high-pitched yelp in his 2006 book THE GOD DELUSION, where he concludes that since God does not exist, faith qualifies as a delusion - a fixed false belief.
The weight of history and thinking would disagree with Dawkins, suggesting that a deep darkness has settled on modern man, a darkness that makes every attempt to choke out the light, wherever it is found. We're are not getting smarter - the opposite is true.
Listen to what George Matheson, a pastor and theologian in Scotland in the 1800's, had to say....
My heart needs Thee, O Lord, my heart needs Thee! No part of my being needs Thee like my heart. All else within me can be filled by thy gifts.
My hunger can be satisfied by daily bread. My thirst can be allayed by earthly waters. My cold can be removed by household fires. My weariness can be relieved by outward rest.
But no outward thing can be make my heart pure. The calmest day will not calm my passions. The fairest scene will not beautify my soul. The sweetest music will not make harmony within. The breezes can cleanse the air; but no breeze ever cleansed a spirit.
This world has not provided for my heart. It has provided for my eye; it has provided for my ear; it has provided for my touch; it has provided for my taste; it has provided for my sense of beauty - but it has not provided for my heart.
Provide Thou for my heart, O Lord! It is the only unwinged bird in all creation; give it wings."
Let's conclude with Augustine adding his "Amen."
"O God, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts find no rest until thy rest in Thee."
Blaise Pascal PENSEES
Oxford educated Richard Dawkins has become the poster child for athiesm. If T. H. Huxley was Darwin's bulldog, then Dawkins has rightfully earned the title of Darwin's rottweiler!
Advocating natural selection, Dawkins has made it his personal mission to debunk a supernatural creator, and his loud protests against God have accellerated recently, including a high-pitched yelp in his 2006 book THE GOD DELUSION, where he concludes that since God does not exist, faith qualifies as a delusion - a fixed false belief.
The weight of history and thinking would disagree with Dawkins, suggesting that a deep darkness has settled on modern man, a darkness that makes every attempt to choke out the light, wherever it is found. We're are not getting smarter - the opposite is true.
Listen to what George Matheson, a pastor and theologian in Scotland in the 1800's, had to say....
My heart needs Thee, O Lord, my heart needs Thee! No part of my being needs Thee like my heart. All else within me can be filled by thy gifts.
My hunger can be satisfied by daily bread. My thirst can be allayed by earthly waters. My cold can be removed by household fires. My weariness can be relieved by outward rest.
But no outward thing can be make my heart pure. The calmest day will not calm my passions. The fairest scene will not beautify my soul. The sweetest music will not make harmony within. The breezes can cleanse the air; but no breeze ever cleansed a spirit.
This world has not provided for my heart. It has provided for my eye; it has provided for my ear; it has provided for my touch; it has provided for my taste; it has provided for my sense of beauty - but it has not provided for my heart.
Provide Thou for my heart, O Lord! It is the only unwinged bird in all creation; give it wings."
Let's conclude with Augustine adding his "Amen."
"O God, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts find no rest until thy rest in Thee."
