The Human Condition

Bible Reading #1

James Townsend / November 23, 2009 / No Comments

Tags adam, babel, bible, devil, eden, eve, flood, genesis, god, myth, noah, satan, serpent, story

My wife and I are going through the Bible together, starting at the beginning. As we’re doing this, I thought it would be interesting to post any questions or reflections here. I started doing this a while back, but here I’ll be including both mine and my wife’s reflections.
We don’t hold back: if we find [...]

The Devil in Consumption

James Townsend / July 17, 2009 / 2 Comments

Tags buy, consumer, consumerism, devil, god, money, satan, spend, spending, trust

I see the devil every time I turn on the tv. I see him in pharmaceutical commercials, selling their drugs on fear, so that the patient will go to the doctor to get the pills. I see him on the news, always preaching the end of the world. I see him antagonizing [...]

Conditionally Speaking

There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. - BB Warfield