All great, except the social media follower count bit. If the lowest of these speaks truth, it should be heeded. Multiple times have my small children spoke truth to me that caused me to reconsider/repent. They are literal nobodies, but truth is truth, from the mouth of nobodies or the mouth of kings.

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I read the Bible daily and C. S. Lewis almost daily, but I’m unChrostoan. (There are not even any Christians in my family, as far back as I’ve traced.) So I am puzzled, sir, and deeply disconcerted by your apparently intentional misquotation of Psalm 16:11 (in timestamp 28:39-33 on this video) which you recited as “At God’s right hand there are pleasures, a river of pleasures forevermore.” Checking eve Bible translation I can find - and checking also the same verse in the original language - I cannot find that the word “river” appears in this verse. Is it custom among Christians to add their own words to the Bible when quoting some of it to illustrate or prove a point? If so, why? (I assume that the misquotation was intentional, because you began by quoting correctly - “there are pleasures” - before backtracking to add in “a river of” for some reason that I do not know and am not able to guess.) Please help me understand.

Although you state that LORD OF THE RINGS’ Faramir is the only one unaffected by the Ring, note that Tom Bombadil is DEFINITELY unaffected by it. He doesn’t want to take it, and it doesn’t even turn him invisible.

"What kind of books could he have written if he had a natural empathy towards children?" I don't know -- could anyone with such empathy have written a book beginning, "There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it"?

I'm not entirely convinced that Eustace was dragon-ish to begin with. As a dragon, he actually made himself useful to the others -- giving them high-flying rides, plucking up a massive tree to replace their broken mast, etc. CS Lewis is a man of the 1930s. So, Eustace's talisman was an armband. Lewis was and Englishman. So, Eustace's talisman was gold. With this armband (identity, ideology, whatever) he could become something more than he used to be -- stronger, but more violent and brutish; but when it came time to his participating in their little society, he simply would not have fit. There's a lot going on in this transformation, that goes in a lot of directions. Perhaps Eustace became a soldier; perhaps he became an industrialist or a financier; but what he became, was monstrous in some dimension (the way he ate, alone) so he did not fit in a harmonious community.

"There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrub, and he almost deserved it." Definitely in the running for Best First Line in an English Language Novel. =)

As timestamp 2:12, the speaker says that the signs which needs to be memorized must be “instinctively bred into the bone.” Yet to be “instinctive” (according to the meaning of that word) the would have had to be acquired by sheer inheritance, not by learning and forming a reflex. Therefore, if we accepted the speaker’s claim that “instinct” was here demanded, we would be saying that it would have been useless for Jill to acquire the signs by training them through repetition (although this is precisely what Asian tells her to do) to Allan wanted Jill to bring the signs down deep inside her to the level of a reflex (to internalize them, as the speaker says earlier), yet 5he speaker demands MORE than Allan ever did: the speaker, by using the word “instinctive,” workday demand of Jill that the signs should have been inborn in her DNA: an impossibility, since the speaker does not have the power of Aslan, and Aslan in any case (though presumably having such a power) did not use it upon Jill. I am deeply disappointed (and, yes, angry) that this otherwise able and engaging speaker has verbally muddied the issue, almost at the outset, by confusing “relfex” with “instinct” (thus leading his audience to confuse them, too).

As timestamp 2:12, the tspeaker says that the signs which needs to be memorized must be “instinctively bred into the bone.” Yet to be “instinctive” (according to the meaning of that word) the would have had to be acquired by sheer inheritance, not by learning and forming a reflex. Therefore, if we accepted the speaker’s claim that “instinct” was here demanded, we would be saying that it would have been useless for Jill to acquire the signs by training them through repetition (although this is precisely what Asian tells her to do) to Allan wanted Jill to bring the signs down deep inside her to the level of a reflex (to internalize them, as the speaker says earlier), yet 5he speaker demands MORE than Allan ever did: the speaker, by using the word “instinctive,” workday demand of Jill that the signs should have been inborn in her DNA: an impossibility, since the speaker does not have the power of Aslan, and Aslan in any case (though presumably having such a power) did not use it upon Jill. I am deeply disappointed (and, yes, angry) that this otherwise able and engaging speaker has muddled the issue, almost at the outset, by confusing “relfex” with “instinct.”

Beautiful! Choirs are rare in churches these days and a lovely youth choir even more. Love the fresh faces and voices. May each youth plant the lyrics in their hearts for a lifetime and behold the glory of this God all their days.

Let's goooooo!!!!

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Amazing!

This was one of the most fun weeks of my life, doing what I perhaps enjoy most: Singing with other people who love to sing as much as I do, if not more.

Such a powerful message! Thank you Lord for this word and for Steve Deace, his family and ministry.

I would equate gorgeous more with gorge than gore

Whoever asked the soldier on deployment schedule question, thanks 😊

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Some notes: Aesthetic Accuracy (hollistic shape in persuasion by Logos, Pathos, Ethos, and embodied life) v. Technical Precision (focussing only on successful Logos-heavy information exchange) as wisdom/virtue v. folly/vice in speech Pragmatics in matehmatical metaphors for intangibles, the sufficiency/insufficiency of metaphors in a broken system of reality where God's communcating to and through us, and snowball fights against Hume & Co. Trust your reason because creaturely certainty as a creature is a sufficient beginning, and the necessary reality of an obligation to believe what is True and conform ourselves to what is True, is part of getting the is, before the ought. (That said, slight pushback that that's exactly what VanTil is pointing out, if you take Kant's critique of assuming your metaphysical right to autonomously reason first, rather than assuming your creaturely obligation to image God first) Logos (making a clear argument), Ethos (keeping your zippper up) and Pathos (appeals to emotion), are getting at different approaches rhetoricaly to persuasion on what is true- not bare conformity to accuracy, but to the more good, true, beautiful story. And this, repentance, requires putting off falsehood, living not by lies, and moving to a true life- that is, a right shaped life, not merely a spoken argument. We shouldn't suck as words, but be good and growing pictures of the Son and Father in how we sing, live, and cook. Image God well.

The part about “I don’t know what these things are, but there are only 2 missing” made me cry laughing.

I love that we are all words. We are all spoken. The art of creating with words is such a high calling, and such a privilege, because we get to do, in our minuscule, flawed, emulative way what God does.

Keep going you guys!

This was incredible as an intro to Just War theory, categories, principles, and a call to not be hypocrites. We need to start with our own sins, work to our marriages and our toddlers fighting in the backseat, to our churces and communities. Work on our logs, then neighbors's specks. Thanks. The one question I have is how the theology of participation in the ideas of God relates to our own sin in perceiving the natural law patterns we should apply, and the degree of indirect godwardness necessary to bind consciences. That is, the old VanTillian v Thomist debate. Can "by what standard" work if the tradition of the natural law in Protestantism is varied in when it solves for how precisely the divine law structure should be applied to ambiguities in our perception of natural law/Tao patterns? If it's not varied, take a test case and run it through various political thinkers and see if there's any diversity of applicaitons due to procedure, not just prudence. Anyone who's looked at Voetius v Bahnsen v Burnside, and differences in procedure v. prudence in application of the frameworks to ethics? Amen to moving the Overton to trusting its possible to govern by God's standards and that we have a tradition of assuming it was possible, but the question of particularities is the understandably tricky next step when we're trying to replace the existing strange common law modernist apostasy with a new magisterial common law frame. Got to know what time it is, and parent the toddlers. But at the level of NATO, it does seem that the advantage of the Bahnsen-style theocratic folks is a more regulated structure for establishing applications of justice in light of an apostasy in natural law perception that wasn't the case for Aquinas' context in writing the Summa, or much of the Overton of permissible natural law perceptions for Christendom among the Magisterials.

You should do them in publication order on your first trip through. If you want to do "author" chronological order on a future read that's fine, but everyones very first reading of Narnia must be original publication order . The spoilers in the later books become just that in chronology order. But not in publication order. So dawn treader is no. 3 in this order, and it's my favorite. ( Magicians nephew is number 6, as it should be .)

Finally finished this book over a decade after I started it after seeing a live performance of The Magician’s Nephew. This is now my favorite Narnia book. Loved the Aslan scenes. They brought tears to my eyes.

Bravo Mark! What a beautiful composition. We were fortunate to have you as a music director at Hope for so many years. I hope you and your family are well!

This is what Gordon College was in 1890's back when it was in Boston , Massachusetts and A.J. Gordon was sending Missionaries by the 100's to places like Ugannda, Zambia , Papa New 🇵🇬, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Senegal amd others. I have in my life tone befriended some of those fighting Scots Grandchildren amd Grandchildren who attemd Othodox Presbyterian Church in Ipswich, Massachusetts over a century later in the Boston area. May God bless tge perpetual, profital proclamation of his word until he returns to Jerusalem.

This concert will forever be iconic in NSA's history. I had a good time singing with you guys! 😊

Very cool Joel. Also, I did not watch the video.

Congratulations Dr. David Talcott. Thanks a lot for the series. I have your book "Plato" and these lectures were extremely helpful. May God bless you!!

Great job, Bekah!

Excellent work by Timon!

Great book....but a little too "layman" for my taste. I wished he had focused more on the research. I was at the book release of Undeniable, and Doug Axe signed my copy and one for my son.

I enjoyed this book. Jonathan wells has written a second one; Zombie science. It covers more icons that "just won't stay dead."

Darwin's Black box was a great book. Behe used Darwin's own claim about necessity of incremental changes in evolution.

I didnt realize Doug Wilson had these talks . Welcome surprise.

I’m amazed more people don’t know about this man

Man, I'd love to go this year, but I'm about to graduate 😂

“Traditional” Christian women love to access all of the freedoms that feminism has achieved for them while bashing an absurd caricature of what feminism really is. If you truly want to be biblical, cover your hair, change out of your pants, and go clean the house or spend time with your kids instead of giving public speeches to influence laws in a secular country. Be the change you want to see instead of selling dangerous misconceptions to susceptible young women. The escape from traditional roles has allowed women to not be at the mercy of men who may or may not decide to treat them no better than property or servants. Of course, any woman who wants to choose a traditional role in marriage can still freely do so (provided the family can afford it) but the reason many don’t is not because they are brainwashed by radical feminism but because, like anyone else, they prefer to be in charge of their own fate rather than hoping that someone who has authority over then decides to be kind and fair.

Love it! Thanks guys.

The speaker exudes great confidence and a seemingly informed understanding of classical learning, but his criticisms of learning approaches are vague and misinformed. He would have us believe that students mechanically translate things they don't understand in the Grammar Translation method; they just output meaningless code that has undergone certain transformations using rules. This is to wrongly confound the approach of many college professors, a holdover from the pre-GT "grammar first" days, which is to have students memorize the grammar, before throwing them into authentic texts that are far beyond their level of comprehension, armed only with a giant dictionary. This is not GT per se, and GT was developed to remedy this. The essence of GT is to teach grammar points in simplified blocks and to practice these concepts over and over. This was all clearly stated in the 1924 report of the Classical Investigation, where the principals of GT, and the reasons for them, were enunciated. It is a popular misconception that GT involves endless memorization and abstract decoding. What he describes as GT is simply bad pedagogy, usually from college professors, not GT, which grew out of the methodology of Ollendorff and others, and which culminated with Jenney's Latin. The Natural Method and Comprehensible Input are similarly misunderstood and, in this instance, he makes the common mistake of confounding them, as though they were one and the same method. Actually, he seems to conflate the Natural Method with immersive spoken methods also, and he makes the natural method an invention of the 70s (a bad thing per se, apparently). Actually William Most came out with his book in the early 1960s. It's peculiar though, because he later names the great Oerberg (perhaps the most prominent natural method teacher) as an example of the "correct" way of teaching. He is also apparently unaware of the criticisms of immersive learning by proponents of comprehensible input. And, for that matter, CI criticisms of Oerberg. The well proven way is through grammatical instruction and copious examples. Wait! This is the GT method. Don't believe me, get First Greek Course of Rouse, one of those whom he says teaches the languages correctly. It has copious grammar with lots of examples. It is as much GT as D'Ooge, or Wilding, or Minnie Smith, or Breslove's GT books. Interestingly, Rouse provides the Greek vocabulary with English definitions, so this would be "decoding" according to Griffith's definition of GT. Presumably he thinks we are to learn our definitions solely from pictures, as Distler does (another name he associates with "correct" teaching). Ironically, then, I come more or less to the conclusion, though I wouldn't mischaracterize everyone else along the way.

* cries * Oh, how I wish! Alas, I am old and broke. And trapped in the hellpit that is Chicago. Sigh.

Ok, so how can a homeschool mom in another state sign up for an education like this? For themselves? 🙋🏽‍♀️😅

OH! I was looking up this book because I was interested in reading it, and this came up in the search. I didn't even know NSA had their own channel! Look how much good content I have missed. I'm never going to be able to get off this internet, am I? ;)

Very deep and thorough. Really appreciate this. Great connection of narnia, lewis as person, and our culture. Brilliant!!

It's sometimes difficult to hear the speaker over the sound of the music and the thunder.

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