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A Good Friday devotion

On March 30, 2010 By Scott Aniol

My good friend Michael Riley has compiled a book of hymns and poetry that can be used this Friday to commemorate the suffering of our Lord for our atonement. Michael writes,

I have put these together in a small booklet that some of you might find useful, either for use individually, with [...]

Two Modern Novel Recommendations

On May 29, 2009 By Scott Aniol

Fiction is good for the soul.

Good fictional literature grips the imagination and shapes the affections, both important for the life of faith.

For that reason, I regularly make it a practice to read fiction amidst all of the other theological, musicological, cultural, philosophical, and historical reading I do.

I also make it a practice [...]

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"To interpret beautiful poetry by translating it into scurrilous soft-porn is to corrupt the most fundamental intent of the text."

On April 16, 2009 By Scott Aniol

MacArthur’s third installment on the Song of Solomon.

When a speaker deliberately arouses lusts that cannot possibly be righteously fulfilled in unmarried college students, or when his personal illustrations fail to guard the privacy and honor of his own wife, that is far worse than merely inappropriate. When done repeatedly [...]

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