Not many fathers have the privilege and blessing of both walking a daughter down the aisle and then officiating her wedding upon arriving at the altar. This was my great honor at 11 a.m. March 17, 2012, at the magnificent Cloister Resort in Sea Island, Georgia.
'Let us go to Judea again.'
To Others an "Ensample"
| I have glasses like Freud! What would HE say about this? |
For the last couple of days, I've been writing what has become what I think is one of my most convoluted and unreadable blog entries yet. So you're not going to get to read that one. It was sort of a commentary on the sermon our pastor gave on Sunday, based solely on my own observations and supposings about human nature.
A powerfully prophetic call from J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) for intellectual engagement in the culture as a means of pre-evangelism:
We are all agreed that at least one great function of the Church is the conversion of individual men. The missionary movement is the great religious movement of our day. Now it is perfectly true that men must be brought to Christ one by one. There are no labor-saving devices in evangelism. It is all hard-work.
Read more: Can We Prepare Our Culture to Receive the Gospel? by Justin Taylor
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