Sublime

Two-thirds of the ordinary means of grace—prayer and the Word—are fully available to anyone, regardless of where they are in their faith journey. We should not underestimate the value of having people be able to sit under such ordinary means as an extension of that forecourt. In other words, we want to see cultural Christians back in our churches b

we will gain wisdom into how Edwards thought about the problem of nominalism and how he addressed it.

these hows are bound in an immanent frame that has blocked out divine action. The pastor today doesn’t need theology (attentive reflection on divine action), because she has silently succumbed to the immanent frame, disconnecting the how from divine action itself.

Thinking about politics from a biblical framework doesn’t mean we’ll always agree, but it does exclude some policies and forms of advocacy that are counter to our beliefs.

What I call religious faith is any form of belief in an eternal being or an eternity beyond being, either in the form of a timeless repose (such as nirvana), a transcendent God, or an immanent, divine Nature.

state government was a vicegerent of God and His absolute law—rather than God and morality being the arbitrary tools of an absolute state (as in Machiavelli’s The Prince,7 first written in 1513).

Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.

Luther’s