If the World’s Population Lived in One City…

An interesting graphic on the population of the world is found here.

 

Keep Low But Aim High

Keep low and humble in your thoughts and opinion of yourself…but aim high in your desires and expectations, even as high as the kingdom of Heaven itself, and resolve to take up with nothing short of it.

-Philip Henry (Matthew Henry’s father)

 

A Faithful Patron and Reprover

He was known to be as faithful a patron of offenders before others, as he was a faithful reprover of them to themselves.

-Referring to Philip Henry (Matthew Henry’s father)

 

John Calvin’s Definition of the Gospel

The Gospel is a public exhibition of the Son of God manifested in the flesh, to deliver a ruined world, and to restore men from death to life.

-John Calvin, p. 16, Calvin’s Bible Commentaries: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Part 1

 

Mistaken But Real Marriage

“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.” –J.R.R. Tolkien

HT: George Grant

 

You Need to Know What’s Going On

If you will watch this interesting exchange you will understand a little better at least one reason why we find ourselves in the present economic mess:



 

The End of the Western Christian Empire?

This is a short but very interesting interview concerning the decline of the Western world. He gives some good insights that need to be considered:

US Empire Will Decline, China Will Rise Rapidly: Murrin – CNBC.com.

 

The Day the Republic Came to an End?

Samuel Blumenfeld writes a hard-hitting article in response to the passage of the health-care bill which he believes signals the end of the republic of the United States and ushers in a potentially dangerous socialistic agenda:

Non-violent, peaceful opposition is still a force to be reckoned with.

But socialists think otherwise. They believe in violent revolution, and the 20th century has shown how they will not hesitate to murder millions of people to carry out their plans for a coercive utopia. But Americans are loath to believe that any one among us would consider or condone such brutal massacres as a way of achieving political ends. But if you believe in man’s innate depravity, you will have no illusions about what some men are capable of doing.

Who would have believed that the civilized German people, with their universities, museums and opera houses, could descend to such barbarism under the Nazi government as to invent human extermination camps during World War II? So the impossible is not at all impossible.

Read the article here.

 

Ron Paul on the Unconstitutional Health Care Bill

 

Voluntary Forced Taxation