The Call to Remember and the Christian Faith (Guinness)

(This is a re-post from April, 2010) This section of Os Guinness' book, God in the Dark, came to mind when I was recently studying the repeated command of YHWH to his people: Remember the day you came out of Egypt...  Remember that the LORD your God redeemed you... Do not forget the LORD your …

History, WWII, and the Christian Faith

One thing that has contributed to the watering down of Christianity in American churches is a loss of knowledge about and respect for history.  Not that we should idolize history, but it sure is helpful to know the past for a whole host of reasons.  It's good to know how our Christian forefathers wrestled through …

Why Remember? (Meilaender)

 Gilbert Meilaender, the Lutheran theologian and bioethicist, has some very helpful essays on ethics and the Christian life.  I've read his book Bioethics before, which I really enjoyed.  I just finished one essay in a collection of his essays called The Freedom of a Christian.  The essay is called "Why Remember?"  In this essay, Meilaender wrestles with …

Remember Yahweh: Memory and the Christian Faith

 This section of Os Guinness' book, God in the Dark, came to mind when I was recently studying the repeated command of YHWH to his people: Remember the day you came out of Egypt...  Remember that the LORD your God redeemed you... Do not forget the LORD your God (Deut 5.15, 7.18, 9.7, etc). "Clearly, …