The Surly Curmudgeon

    A friend asked me what I thought these few verses mean. Taken in isolation, this passage is indeed a little confusing, so I took a few minutes to analyze it, and here’s what I came up with.

    An examination of the two distinct spirits which God sent to King Saul.

    Dietrich Bonhoefer portrait photo

    A short excerpt from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship on the distinctions between justification and sanctification

    C.S. Lewis Portrait photo

    Excerpt from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, in which he argues that mankind’s own sense of morality verifies the existence of God the creator of mankind.

    John Bunyan portrait

    Excerpt from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress in which the pilgrim, Christian’s, heavy burden of sin is loosed from his shoulders at the cross.

    YHWH - Yahweh

    A Biblical overview of God’s Name – יהוה – given to Moses from the burning bush, with a rebuttal of the lie that Jesus never claimed in the Bible to be God.

    Wittenberg Church Door

    English translation of the text of Martin Luther’s 95 theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.