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Could Christ Have Sinned: Understanding temptation

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Before we can get into the issue of answering whether Christ could sin or not, we need to do some groundwork. Specifically, we need to talk about temptation. Let me start out by saying this: I think most Christians would … Continue reading →

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Divinity and Temptation: Could Christ have sinned?

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Charles Churchill

For the past several months, members of our church have been meeting on Sunday evenings to work our way through the Second London Baptist Confession. The format is pretty informal, with two of the elders leading the discussion and keeping … Continue reading →

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On C. S. Lewis, His Personal Devotion to Relationships, and My Depravity

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Courtesy of The Inklings, we have this this excerpt of Erik Routley’s remembrance of C. S. Lewis taken from C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and other Reminiscences: I know myself what others know far better — how unfailingly … Continue reading →

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Love, Insulation, and Speaking to be Heard

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Charles Churchill

I read about a Swedish band; they sing their songs in English because it insultates them from lyrics that would be too raw, too painful to sing otherwise.  It made me think of birthday cards, of poems written by machines, … Continue reading →

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This is a love story: a very short (and possibly unfinished) work of fiction

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Author’s Note: This is not a new piece. I wrote it a few years ago, and while I’m still not totally happy with it, for some reason, I like it very much. So, occasionally, I get it out, reread it … Continue reading →

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Why is that man smiling: Reason, Insanity and Pleasure

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Charles Churchill

About ten years ago, on one of the first nights of my EMT/Paramedic clinicals, we had a mental patient in the ER for a few hours. He was a little fidgety man that smiled a lot, muttered under his breath … Continue reading →

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God, Grammar, and the Precision of Scripture

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Charles Churchill

I don’t have time to go into it in depth right now, but the following passages should be read and their implications considered anytime we wonder about the precision of Scripture and how seriously and literally that we should take … Continue reading →

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The Best Story, the True Myth, a poem

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel has posted a poem about the choice we make each day in how we see the world. Here’s a snippet: Every story that has inner beauty, That strikes a note and holds it In our … Continue reading →

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Looking back on love

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Charles Churchill

With apologies, these are poems that I wrote my wife while we were dating. There have been poems since then, but I stumbled across these recently and thought that with Valentine’s day coming up tomorrow, they seemed appropriate. It’s midnight … Continue reading →

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Books for Boys and Girls

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Charles Churchill

Diary of an Early American Boy Any boy (or girl) interested in post-colonial American life will love this book. Based on accounts from a diary kept for the year 1805, the book follows the diary’s author, Noah Blake and records … Continue reading →

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