Called to Be Friends
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Bringing Back the Great Commission?
…badly behaved and entitled people. [Entitlement, as I have said elsewhere, is a root of many sins, from theft to anger.] Of course, some of these things may be different…
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…
The Problem with ‘Straight Pride’
…to enforce. In the first phase of the Sexual Revolution – the Hugh Hefner phase – many single men came to think of sex as an entitlement. The feminist backlash…
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…
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…
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 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….
Why Didn’t Harvey Weinstein Get His Face Slapped?
…generation of males who came to believe that sex was an entitlement. The Church tried to tell them otherwise, but they weren’t listening. Then, feminists found a different way, more…
“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’…