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Very Bad Words

Jon Feaster — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:00:23 +0000

When I was a teenager I once asked my grandmother if saying G**D*** was really all that bad. My simple minded reasoning went something like this: Saying G**D*** is not bad because you’re not damning God. You’re really only telling him to damn someone or something. My grandmother replied, Don’t tell God what to do! [...]

The Geneva Bible

Jon Feaster — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:00:11 +0000

Which favored Bible translation was brought to the new world by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower? Which Bible translation was used by the 16th century reformers, William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, and John Bunyan? If you think it was the King James Version, think again. Little known today, it was actually the Geneva Bible [...]

Joint Efforts and Group Efforts

Jon Feaster — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:46 +0000

Man was not meant to live in isolation. It is not good that the man should be alone, says The Lord. (Genesis 2:18) Though it’s also true that men are supposed to take responsibility for their own affairs, and many men are quite capable, another truth is that no man is truly self-sufficient. Take something [...]

Defend the Faith: Doctrine of God

Jon Feaster — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:38 +0000

Before you can intelligently assert whether God exists, you have to determine what you mean when you refer to God. What does it mean to say, I believe in God, or to say the ever vague I have faith? Faith in what? Placing your ultimate faith in something makes that your God. If it’s not [...]

Calvin’s Institutes Lite

Jon Feaster — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:49 +0000

There was a time when John Calvin’s magnum opus, The Institutes of Christian Religion, was required reading at Oxford. How times have changed! Even the few who have even heard of John Calvin usually only know him as the guy who had something to do with tulips or the five points of Calvinism. For those [...]

Fascism Defined

Jon Feaster — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:31 +0000

When most people think of fascism, immediately visions of swastikas, Adolf Hitler, and goose stepping soldiers come to mind. Some equate it with antisemitism, the Holocaust, and racism in general. While nazism is fascism, it’s really is just one particular form of the ideology. However, at its core, fascism is not about race but economics. [...]

Defend the Faith: The One and The Trinity

Jon Feaster — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:14 +0000

God graces us with so many things. Among the many graces given to us by God are his wondrous mysteries. In addition to being an essential pillar of the Christian faith, The doctrine of Trinity is perhaps the most mysterious and least understood. Many people have either brushed the Trinity aside or rejected it outright [...]

Surpassing Worth

Jon Feaster — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:00:24 +0000

Throughout the ages men have sought the answer to the question, “What is the meaning of life?” For some, meaning is found within, for others, it is found outside of us. If man only looks inside or around what always seems to remain is that feeling of inadequacy. Something’s missing. There has to be more [...]

The Covenant of Dominion

Jon Feaster — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:41 +0000

Like all things in creation, when God created man he created him for a purpose. Man wasn’t to simply lead a passive life in paradise. Rather, his purpose was and is to glorify God. To do this, man was given a job. His job was to have dominion. And God blessed them. And God said [...]

One Lesson

Jon Feaster — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:00:54 +0000

If you’re only going to read one economics book in your life make it Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt takes the great Frederic Bastiat’s That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen and shows what separates the economically literate from the snake oil salesmen. In Bastiat’s essay, he tells the story [...]