by George Grant | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Featured Post, Fight, George Grant, History, Politics, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Worldview
In his Confessions, Augustine (354-430) describes mankind’s universal sinful bent as “concupiscence.” The Greek word epithumia (ἐπιθυμία) occurs 38 times in the New Testament. It describes the utter enfeebling of mankind’s freedom of will through the bondage of sin....
by George Grant | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Uncategorized
Poet, literary critic, and novelist, Arthur Quiller-Couch, was best known for his incomparable anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse. As a lecturer at Oxford beginning in 1886 and a professor at Cambridge from 1912-1944, he taught an entire generation of English...
by George Grant | May 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Featured Post, George Grant, History, Religion, Theology, Theology, Worldview
Haarlem is a beautiful little Dutch town on the River Spaarne, fifteen minutes by train from Amsterdam. Founded sometime in the 10th century, in 1245 it was granted city status or stadsrechten and was made the capital of the province of North Holland. By the 14th...
by George Grant | May 7, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, Religion, The Bible, Theology, Worldview
When I was in seminary, the “Church Growth Movement” was just getting its sea legs. So, of course, it was all the rage in the hallowed halls of academia—if not amongst the profs, most assuredly amongst their charges. Filled with uninformed enthusiasm my peers tended...
by George Grant | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, Theology, Theology
The years leading up to the Scottish Disruption and those immediately afterward produced some of the most remarkable servants of God in the history of the church. Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-1892) was a member of that galaxy of brilliant, Reformed Scots preachers,...
by George Grant | Apr 20, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Current affairs, George Grant, History, Religion, Worldview
The horrific ruthlessness of ISIS, the brazen cruelty of Boko Haram, the obsessive repression of the North Korean Juche, the vicious terrorism of Al-Qaeda: I confess that when faced with the gleeful persecution of my Christian brothers and sisters around the world in...
by George Grant | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Current affairs, Featured Post, George Grant, History
Every year new words and phrases find their way into our vocabulary. Sometimes these neologisms are the result of political turns of events, like Brexit, alt-right, or newsjacking. Sometimes it is technology and digital media that introduce new words like hashtag,...
by George Grant | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
In his classic book, The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul bemoans the absence from our vocabulary of certain, once-familiar, King James Version words. It wasn’t so much the loss of antiquated verb forms like walketh and talketh, or sayest and mayest that bothered him. It...
by George Grant | Mar 3, 2018 | Blog, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
“And thus was he called Ichabod, for the glory of the Lord had departed.” 1 Samuel 4:21 The rising tide of heresy in the latter half of the fourth century very nearly engulfed the entire church. Most of the Nicean fathers had either passed into glory or were...
by George Grant | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Uncategorized
“Jeremiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged lamentation; a cry of woe; and expression of righteous indignation. “Nehemiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged humiliation; a cry of grief; an expression of righteous repentance. Well might we plead the case...
by George Grant | Feb 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Fight, George Grant, Politics, Uncategorized
All leaders are controversial. They invariably risk the ire of others. Because they stand for certain things, they necessarily stand against certain things. This causes them to stand out. It makes them more than a little peculiar in this plain vanilla world of...
by George Grant | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Featured Post, Fight, George Grant, Politics, Religion, Theology, Theology, Worldview
It is one of the great ironies of our day that Christians can pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,” and not actually mean anything by it. Indeed, it is a stunning paradox that we can live as if such a prayer could not be answered. Even worse, we can...
by George Grant | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion
In 1821, Dr. John Rippon, pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in Southwark, London, began a ministry to the homeless poor. A complex of almshouses was erected on a property adjacent to the church and the monumental task of rehabilitation was begun. Rippon wrote,...
by George Grant | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, Religion, The Bible, Worldview
“We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God.” Isaac Watts One of the basic demands of Christian discipleship, of following Jesus Christ, is to change our way of thinking. We are to “take captive every thought...
by George Grant | Jan 13, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Featured Post, George Grant, Science, Science, Worldview
Watkins’ Bookshop in Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross between Leicester Square and Covent Garden in London, was established in 1891 by John Watkins, and is still London’s premier occult bookstore. One of its most famous customers was Carl Gustav Jung, who, together...
by George Grant | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, History, Theology, Theology
A doxology is a short chorus of praise to the Lord, often sung as a stand-alone piece or as a coda at the conclusion of psalms, hymns, or canticles. The word comes from the Greek doxa, meaning “appearance” or “glory,” and logia, meaning “study” or “declaration.”...
by George Grant | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, George Grant, History, Politics
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson “I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I...
by George Grant | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Featured Post, George Grant, History
Humbug is an old word of indeterminate etymology meaning “spectacle” or “hoax” or “jest,” often referring to some unjustified reputation or publicity. Of course, the word is most often associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens in The...
by George Grant | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog, Current affairs, George Grant, Theology
I met R.C. Sproul during the first week of March 1982 in San Diego at the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy’s Congress on the Bible. I was introduced to him by my friend, Franky Schaeffer, and immediately I was struck by Dr. Sproul’s boundless energy,...
by George Grant | Dec 7, 2017 | Culture, Current affairs, George Grant, History, Religion, Worldview
“The most practical and important thing about a man is his view of the universe. The question is not whether the theory of the cosmos affects matters, but whether, in the long run, anything else affects them.” G.K. Chesterton “Worldview is the most important thing...
by George Grant | Dec 7, 2017 | George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Theology
By the 16th century virtually no one disagreed on the fact that the West needed to be reformed. What they disagreed on was what that reform should entail and how it was to be effected. In frustrated tension, dozens of competing factions, sects, schisms, rifts,...
by George Grant | Dec 7, 2017 | Current affairs, George Grant, History, The Bible
Culture is simply a worldview made evident. It is basic beliefs worked out into habits of life. It is theology translated into sociology. Culture is a very practical expression of the common faith of a community or a people or a nation. Culture is, in other words,...
