Proverb 22:7 tells us: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” Most contemporary translations render ébed “slave” as with the ESV here. The predominant translation of ébed in the King James version is “servant”. In Hebrew culture an ébed was commonly a slave, however, given the connotation […]
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Servant of the Lender
13 Nov 2018
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Weekly Sage #3: Flannery O’Connor
09 Nov 2018
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Flannery O’Connor – “There was something he was searching for, something he felt he must have, some last significant culminating experience that he must make for himself […]
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The Weekly Sage #2: Raymond Aron
02 Nov 2018
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Raymond Aron “Why is it so difficult to evolve an ideology, in the sense of a total system of interpretation and action? For contemporary societies, scientific and […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 1
29 Oct 2018
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, I feel honored to christen the Bereans Mailbag and send it off on its maiden voyage to explore the deep recesses of […]
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“I Believe You Christine Ford”
17 Sep 2018
So rings the many voices on the many media platforms of our age. Consider this one: Christine Blasey Ford, I believe you. I believed you before I knew who you were, before you revealed your name. I believed you before the details of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were revealed. Goldie Taylor […]
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Much of Mr. Trump’s economic success has been challenging the way things have been done under the Obama administration, and charting a decidedly different course. Tax cuts instead of tax hikes, deregulation instead of regulation. And it’s working; yesterday’s revision of 2nd qtr GDP was positive, and the composition was even better–consumer spending was down […]
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Living the Truth in Politics: Part 3
29 Aug 2018
***This is a three-part series on Living the Truth in Politics. Part 1 sets the stage of how truth is treated in the political realm. Part 2 looks at how the Bible treats truth, especially for the Child of God. Part 3 examines the obvious conflict and attempts to answer a question: how does the […]
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I’ve been criticizing Mr. Trump for trade for some time now, and unfortunately I don’t think that’s going to let up anytime soon. However, I want to continue to give him credit in this limited sense: Presidents (and politicians generally) don’t make the economy grow faster, but what they can do is take away the […]
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The Bereans: An Imminent Upgrade
17 May 2018
Readers! We are in the process of a website upgrade here at Bereans@TheGate. I think you will find the new site a bit more clean and modern. The color palette is updated, and the logo and artwork are different. You will also notice a couple of new features. First, we will have a dedicated space […]
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Could Russell Moore be wrong? Maybe we don’t need less Christian engagement in Politics, maybe we need more?
25 Apr 2018
I love Russell Moore; I greatly enjoy his teaching and respect much of what I hear from him. Yet while a foolish person may be occasionally right, so too can a wise person be occasionally wrong. In an article over at 9Marks, Dr. Moore suggests that politics has consumed the Christian church. I read into […]
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