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What would you do if you were the Devil?

April 13, 2015CarmenFowlerLaBerge14 Carmen Fowler LaBerge, devil, Jonathan Edwards, Paul Harvey, Puritans

n 1965 cultural commentator Paul Harvey described what he would do to destroy America if he were Satan. “If I were the devil, I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree—Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first—I would…

Edwards on the Christian life

August 28, 2014Layman1 Crossway, Dane C. Ortlund, Jonathan Edwards, Nathan A. Finn

Book review by Nathan A. Finn, The Gospel Coalition Of the writing of books about Jonathan Edwards there is no end. Scholars have focused their attention on aspects of the 18th-century pastor’s theology, philosophy, ethics, or role in interpreting and promoting revival. Popular writers have tended to emphasize the latter or Edwards’s Calvinism. Some evangelical…