Tag Archive | Culture
Worldly Culture
A marketing executive from a Fortune 50 company was presenting his firm’s plan for success in the world’s market place. He laid out three key points that he lifted from various sources that are essential to his plan: Corporate marketing says: #1 “To reach the wallet, hit the heart.” How many commercials for expensive items […]
The Fall of the United States of Rome. (Repost)
Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) offers a sobering warning from the grave: “If the West goes down and is defeated, it will be for one reason only: internal rot. . . . If we continue to spend our lives in jollification, doing less and less work, demanding more and more money, more and more pleasure and so-called […]
Sermon of the week: “Fine Sounding Arguments” by Thabiti Anyyabwile.
Your sermon of the week is a fine message by Thabiti Anyabwile entitled Fine Sounding Arguments. The subtitle of this message is How Wrongly ‘Engaging the Culture’ Adjusts the Gospel. Anyabwile deals with the propensity of so many Christians to “engage the culture” in ways that are not biblical, and he examines not only what […]
The Fall of the United States of Rome.
Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) offers a sobering warning from the grave: If the West goes down and is defeated, it will be for one reason only: internal rot . . . If we continue to spend our lives in jollification, doing less and less work, demanding more and more money, more and more pleasure and so-called […]
Welcome to the gospel in America in the 21st century.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. – Neil Postman
Coexist.
The following great piece comes from Jake Hunt at WiserTime: You’ve seen these, right? They make me mad. Why? Because they don’t really mean what they say. Let’s break it down. We’ll call each worldview by the letter it’s supposed to represent. So: C = Islam O = Pacifism E = “Gender equality” (=the LGBT […]
Sarcasm at its finest: Happy spots and Hollywood.
Sometimes you can just use a good laugh. The following video is a great follow-up of the post Woe Unto You. And this video is a great follow-up to The Idolatry of Celebrity Worship.
CrossTalk: Death of the grown-up.
Ingrid covers the arrested development plaguing many Westerners in this CrossTalk episode: Death of the Grown-up. This edition of Crosstalk begins with Ingrid’s review of Diana West’s book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Do you remember a time when kids wanted to grow up to be […]
