The Sin of Entitlement
…often-discussed attitude of ‘entitlement’, and a sense of entitlement that triggers a multitude of sins. Entitlement Triggers First, it seems to me that all theft has to be triggered by…
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Does Justice Equal Entitlement: A Book Review
…the wages [a juridical entitlement] of sin is death, but the gift [by definition not an entitlement] of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Keller rightly reasons…
Why ‘entitlement’ programs aren’t really entitlements
I fully agree with Jim Huffman of Lewis and Clark Law school that the ‘entitlements’ of Social Security and Medicare are not, in any moral sense, entitlements. That does not…
My Long Awaited Healthcare Post (In the Form of a Book Notice)
…I just don’t believe that government welfare is a moral and ethical entitlement that can never be reduced or altered despite the fiscal needs of the state. And, Social Security…
“Spoiled Rich Kids” and “Ghetto Gangsters”
…as a ‘sense of entitlement’ or even greed, because I think these vices to be widespread in other parts of society as well. If anything, trustfunders are probably less ‘greedy’…
Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty
…or ‘entitlements‘, we must be very careful about what we are asking for. Every human being cannot have a claim on a specific quantity of a finite and limited resource…
What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me
…entire life. So I needed something more than just ‘rules’. I reread C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and learned that the sin of ‘entitlement’ was central. [That will be…
The Heart vs. The Gut
…However, I have gotten over my sense of “entitlement,” also an attitude of the heart, and do not rage when I find few alternatives left after parsing the salad menu….
The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s
…state, there is not one verse in the black or the red letters of the Bible conferring a moral entitlement by anyone to the resources of the state. Not one….
A Croatia Travelogue
…had an excellent truffle pasta [a staple in the region] and I had a pretty good lamb stew, except my American sense of entitlement was disturbed by pieces of bone…