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Blog & Mablog

Our Galvanizing Grandfather

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

GK Chesterton's Orthodoxy (with flames atop his head and everything!) awaits you: https://canonpress.com/products/orthodoxy-introduction-by-g-k-chesterton/

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Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com. This audio is brought to you by

0:08.6

Cannon Press. Before we get started I wanted to remind folks of the biggest and largest news of the Christian

0:16.6

heritage series and that is that Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the G.K. Chesterton has joined our Heritage Series. You can grab G K Chesterton's

0:29.0

Orthodoxy at cannon press.com. I can do no better than just reading the man's words himself from

0:37.6

Orthodoxy. Because children have a bounding vitality because they are in spirit fierce and free.

0:45.0

Therefore, they want things repeated and unchanged.

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They always say, do it again.

0:51.0

And the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.

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For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.

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But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.

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It is possible that God says every morning, do it again,

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to the sun, and every evening, do it again to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike.

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It may be that God makes every daisies separately,

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but has never got tired of making them.

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It may be that he has the eternal appetite of infancy.

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For we have sin and grown old, and our father is younger than we.

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Pick up G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy at Canon Press.com. Our galvanizing grandfather, July 29, 2020.

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Introduction.

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Introduction.

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My purpose here is not to rehearse the argument. Introduction

1:53.0

My purpose here is not to rehearse the arguments over masking mandates

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or to again work through the basics of biblical civics.

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