Jon Swerens https://jonswerens.com Music and lyrics Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:04:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.5 https://jonswerens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-jon-icon-v01-32x32.png Jon Swerens https://jonswerens.com 32 32 New album in the works https://jonswerens.com/new-album-in-the-works/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 02:05:11 +0000 https://jonswerens.com/?p=1 Work has begun on an actual new album! The tentative title is “River, Field, & Wood” and will be produced by the incomparable Tim Bushong. More details as they become available!

]]> This is the tweet you are looking for https://jonswerens.com/this-is-the-tweet-you-are-looking-for/ https://jonswerens.com/this-is-the-tweet-you-are-looking-for/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:44:08 +0000 http://www.jonswerens.com/?p=2666 Just being on Twitter has swamped me, but if you’re looking for the tweet that “sunk Michael Moore’s battleship,” You’re in the right place:

]]> https://jonswerens.com/this-is-the-tweet-you-are-looking-for/feed/ 1 And it’s a fuel that burns hot https://jonswerens.com/and-its-a-fuel-that-burns-hot/ https://jonswerens.com/and-its-a-fuel-that-burns-hot/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2015 03:38:07 +0000 http://www.jonswerens.com/?p=2595

The whole words runs on accusation, and so friendship with the world is friendship with that system of accusation. (emphasis in the original)

Doug Wilson, “Rules for Reformers”

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Anyone who has not noticed that “demands for apologies” have become one of the central political and cultural tactics of our day has simply not been paying attention.

Doug Wilson, “Rules for Reformers”

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You can’t fight a culture war without a culture. The reformation of the church must occur so that there is a reformation of our subculture, and then our subculture will affect the larger polis. Expecting our faith to affect the larger polis when it has not yet changed the average shelf at the local Christian book store is expecting something that is not going to happen.

Doug Wilson, “Rules for Reformers”

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G.K. Chesterton

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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H.L. Mencken

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Trust is at the center of all family life. Trust is what makes authority bearable.

Douglas Wilson, “Her Hand in Marriage”

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The Lord, who has become our Teacher, will not give us up, however slow of understanding we may be; for it is not for His honor that any degree of human folly should baffle His skill.

C.H. Spurgeon, “Faith’s Check Book“

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How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about (arithmetic), and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?

G.K. Chesterton

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