Common Grace
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed — for lack of a better word — is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge – has [...]
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Part 1 in a series on Ayn Rand
The 21st century is the age of story, and few have shaped the narrative of our age like novelist and political philosopher Ayn Rand.
Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged has been ranked as second only to the Bible as one of [...]
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Our vocation is, I believe, to build good out of evil. For if we try to build good out of good, we are in danger of running out of raw material.
- Paul Tournier
I spoke at a men’s retreat last weekend. The last lecture I delivered [...]
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Part 9 in a series on Common Grace
“Co-belligerency can make a certain kind of sense, if you have your wits about you.”
Doug Wilson
The Christian employee, surrounded by non-Christians at work, can take great hope from the doctrine of common grace. MORE →
Part 8 in a series on Common Grace
We often meet people who are not Christians but who agree with a Christian stance on a certain cultural issue, and therefore they are willing to work together with Christians toward resolution. We should be open to working with them for a common [...]
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Part 7 in a series on Common Grace
The plowing of the wicked is sin, but it is more sinful for the wicked not to plow.
John Murray
What gives the non-Christian firefighter the courage to charge up the stairs of the Twin Towers on 9/11 to [...]
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Part 6 in a series on Common Grace
We have been taking about the three reasons God showers common grace upon humanity. The first two that we have discussed are:
First, God’s common grace prevents fallen human beings from doing all the wrong they could do. Second, through common grace [...]
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Part 5 in a series on Common Grace
We have asked the question, “for what purpose would God shower common grace upon humanity?” We then looked at the first element of a threefold answer. That is, that God’s common grace prevents fallen human beings from doing all the wrong they [...]
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