Apr 14, 2023

TRUTH, STATE & HUMANNESS:

"If truth exist as the Bible sets forth, it will bring Christians into confrontation with the state: --Confrontation for that which is truth in contrast to that which is untruth. --Confrontation for that which is right in contrast to that which is wrong. --And confrontation against anything that takes away people's humanness."

Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Our Battle for Humanness, Moody Monthly, 1983

Apr 13, 2023

RADICALS FOR TRUTH:

"...what we need in light of the accommodation about us is a generation of radicals for truth and for Christ. We need a young generation and others who will be willing to stand in loving confrontation, but real confrontation, in contrast to the mentality of constant accommodation with the current forms of the world spirit as they surround us today, and in contrast to the way in which so much of evangelicalism has developed the automatic mentality of accommodation at each successive point."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster

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Apr 12, 2023

FREE DOWNLOAD::

Download and read, "Francis Schaeffer on Apologetics in Dystopia" which explores how Schaeffer's Apologetic relates to dystopian themes and the struggles of our times.

~ Paper presented by Dan Guinn at ISCA 2023.

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Apr 10, 2023

THE TRIUNE GOD STOOD COMPLETE:

"God created all things of His own free will. He did not have to create. Before creation the triune God stood complete, and there was love and communication between the persons of the Trinity. Revelation 4:11 reads: 'You are worthy, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being.'"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Basic Bible Studies

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Apr 09, 2023

HAPPY EASTER FROM FRANCISSCHAEFFERSTUDIES.ORG!:

"If Jesus did not live, or if He did not rise from the dead, Christianity cannot continue. It cannot live on as a mere idea, because Christianity is about objective truth and not merely religious experiences. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament claim to be truth, in contrast to that which is not true, and this truth is rooted in history. We have only one hope, and it rests on a serious commitment to the existence of God and the reliability of His Word, the Bible, in all the areas in which it speaks."

~ Dr, Francis Schaeffer, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?

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Mar 26, 2023

FRANCIS SCHAEFFER STUDIES AT ISCA:

This weekend, Dan will be presenting a paper, "Francis Schaeffer on Apologetics in Dystopia" and Dr. Williams will be presenting "Answers for Orual: C. S. Lewis as Defensor Fidei."

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Mar 17, 2023

READ SCHAEFFER!!!:

Dr. Bill Roach shares his encounter with the works of Schaeffer, his part in inspiring Dan to write his book (Truth Amidst Tension) and some significant insights on Schaeffer's thought.

~ Why You Should Read Francis Schaeffer | Dr. Bill Roach. Dr. Roach is the former president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics

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Mar 12, 2023

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS ANNUAL CONFERENCE:

The year's ISCA 2023 Conference topic is "Apologetics in a Brave New World." Join us at Southern Evangelical Seminary, in Charlotte, NC March 31 to April 1st for an engaging event!

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Dec 15, 2022

L'ABRI CONFERENCE 2023:

L'Abri has announced the dates for this year's conference. From One Generation to Another: The Christian Education Mandate and its Challenges, Rochester L'Abri Conference, february 17-18, 2023. Mark your calendars are register soon!

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Dec 07, 2022

THANKFULNESS AND TRUST:

"...a quiet disposition and a thankful heart at any given moment is the real test of the extent to which we love and trust God..."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

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Aug 21, 2022

A REVIEW OF A REVIEW PAGE:

We have been sharing quotes from "A Review of a Review" from Francis Schaeffer. One of his early historical stances on Apologetics. Check out the page for more information and see all the quotes.

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Aug 20, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (LOGICALLY LOST):

"If the unsaved man were completely logical, and so had no point of common contact, we could not reach him for he would have taken his life and so be out of our reach."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 19, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (ILLOGICAL vs REVELATION):

"The Lord uses this degree of illogical reality the unsaved man has in his false world. The Lord shows some men their bankruptcy as they use a microscope, some as they fall in love, and some as they fear to die. When the bankruptcy is perceived then Christ may be seen as the answer."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 18, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (ATHEIST INCONSISTENCY):

"If the unsaved man was consistent he would be an atheist in religion, and irrationalist in philosophy (including a complete uncertainty concerning "natural laws"), and completely a-moral in the widest sense."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 17, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS):

"Both sides say, in their own field, 'See where your position leads, now see where Christianity leads. In the light of this comparison, Christianity is the right one.' I am convinced that neither side would say that Christianity could be wrong, except 'for the sake of the argument.'"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 16, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (IRRACTIONALISM vs. CHRISTIANITY):

"As I remember Dr. Van Til's practical approach, it was to show the non-Christian that his world view, en toto, and in all its parts, must logically lead back to full irrationalism and then to show him that the Christian system provides the universal which gives avowed explanation of the universe. It is Christianity or nothing."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 15, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (PREACHING/APOLOGETICS):

"Neither side, I am sure, would say that it is no use talking or preaching to the unsaved man. Both sides do. Neither would either side say that the Holy Spirit does not use Christian apologetics when it pleases him to do so. Both sides certainly use apologetics in dealing with the intellectual unbeliever."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 14, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE (REASONING FAITH):

"From the human viewpoint, neither side would say, I am sure, that it is possible for a man (remembering the fall) to simply reason from nature to a saving knowledge of nature's God without an act of personal faith. Bare knowledge without faith cannot save."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 13, 2022

CLASSICAL/PRESUPPOSITIONAL DEBATE:

"I have before me these articles in The Bible Today, and on the other hand I remember vividly the good things I received from Dr. Van Til's courses. It seems to me, as I understand it, that the problem is not unsolable."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Review of a Review

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Aug 12, 2022

THE MEANING OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH:

"Of all the phrases of the Apostles' Creed, the one which is most open to misunderstanding is: 'I believe in the holy Catholic Church.' Many Protestants, feeling that in some way this portion of the Apostles' Creed refers to the Roman Catholic Church, are ashamed to repeat it. Let us say, as we begin, that not only does 'the holy Catholic Church' have no reference to Roman Catholicism, but it is the very antithesis of it."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Holy Catholic Church

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Aug 11, 2022

DOCTRINAL VIGILANCE:

"We must not forget that this strong doctrinal heritage is not a thing to be kept merely by wish. It, like all other things of value, must be kept by vigilance. It must soon be forgotten. It will pass away, unless we continue to be determined that it shall be ours as long as God gives us the grace..."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Our System of Doctrine (1942), Bible Presbyterian Church

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Aug 10, 2022

ALWAYS PROPHETIC :

Just how far ahead was Dr. Schaeffer? Well, in 1943, six years before WWII and the Jewish Holocaust, Dr. Schaeffer was warning about Anti-Semitism! Check out this page for information and quotes on this early pamphlet/article.

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Aug 09, 2022

ARTICLE PAGE:

We have been sharing quotes from "Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, 1984. Check out the page for more information and see all the quotes.

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Aug 08, 2022

FAITHFUL FIRST:

"Our job isn't to know if we are going to win; our job is to be faithful."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Aug 05, 2022

TRUST GOD IN THESE TIMES:

"The church has been through many periods when it seemed to be battered to its knees. Those who were faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Scriptures gradually worked for something to come forth. We must trust Christ and the Holy Spirit to bring forth results."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Aug 04, 2022

LEAVE ROOM TO TALK:

"I must be as blunt as I need to be, but at the same time able to invite these people into my home for tea, to sit down and have a good talk."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Aug 03, 2022

A TEST FOR ACCOMMODATION:

"Any world view that does not allow us to promote biblical morality has accommodated the secularist myth of neutrality."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Aug 02, 2022

LAWLESS GENERATION:

"A large section of evangelicalism has increasingly accommodated the present world spirit rather than using the Bible to judge it. The spirit of our age demands autonomy, freedom from every law, every absolute, even autonomy against human nature. There are no moral absolutes in this kind of world; everyone does what he wants to do and says what he wants to say."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Aug 01, 2022

MARXIST ACCOMMODATION :

"Evangelicalism has accommodated at every crucial point in our culture. I mentioned the distortion of Scripture. We have also confused God's kingdom with socialistic programs. Unjust social structures or capitalism are not the cause of evil in our world. Changing economic structures; setting up some kind of redistribution system¾ will not stop evil. That kind of thinking is Marxist. For evangelicals to adopt such a line of thought is sheer accommodation to the world."

Are Christians Headed For Disaster? An Interview by Melinda Delahoyde From Moody Monthly, Vol. 84, July/August 1984, pp. 18-20

Jul 31, 2022

REVOLUTIONARY CHRISTIANITY:

For the last few weeks we've been sharing quotes from Dr. Schaeffer's early work Revolutionary Christianity, 1948. Check out the book page for more information as well as a Free Resource to read it for yourself!

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Jul 30, 2022

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ADDRESSING EVIL:

"..if we intend to stand in the historic stream of Christianity, we must never close our eyes to the wrongs that do exist in our own external world. The reason the secondary blessings of Christianity have followed the preaching of the Cross is that the true preachers of the Cross have always been willing to point out the evils of their own day."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 29, 2022

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LOSS OF MESSAGE:

"If the church had not lost its revolutionary message through dead orthodoxy and laziness, modernism could never have come in as it has."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 28, 2022

11:00:00

REAL WORLDLINESS:

"Worldliness is more than smoking, drinking and card playing. A far worse worldliness is keeping quiet when our nation breaks its promises; or sharing, through silence, in murder through mob violence; or by driving men to communism by squeezing them in any of the economic processes."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 27, 2022

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THE PERENNIAL MARCH:

"We have the greatest marching orders that men have ever been given, and when we allow our young people to go on the defensive rather than to march straight forward, it means that we have failed to get across the perennial challenge of our calling."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 26, 2022

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FREEDOM TO PREACH:

"...the loss of our freedoms will eventually lead to the loss of the freedom of the preaching of the Gospel."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 25, 2022

11:00:00

THE ROAD TO DEATH OF FREEDOMS:

"The so-called 'liberal' is the reactionary, for he would squander all those individual freedoms which our Bible-believing forefathers have won. He decks this road to the slaughter-house of our freedoms with Christian signs and symbols, but it is the road to the death of our freedoms, nevertheless."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 24, 2022

11:00:00

SOCIAL GOSPEL = STATISM:

"In whatever country you read the writings of these men, you find that they believe it is now the Christian's duty to give up his individual freedom to the state, so that their socialistically-planned economy can come into effect."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 23, 2022

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THE BENEFITS OF BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY :

"Bible-believing Christianity, wherever it has gone preaching Christ and Him crucified and raised from the dead and keeping as its primary message justification by faith, has always been followed by certain peripheral and secondary blessings. These blessings have not followed in a day, but they have always come. What are these peripheral blessings--the emancipation of women, the freeing of slaves, the increase of education, and, in general, a rise in the level of civilization, including the material benefits of a high standard of living. There are many others, but the greatest of the peripheral blessings that have followed historic Bible-believing Christianity has always been an increase in individual liberties. Remember, this is not the primary message of Christianity. It is a purely secondary result of the preaching of the cross."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 22, 2022

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NEVER FOSSILIZED:

"True Bible-believing Christianity is never comfortable and it is never fossilized."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 21, 2022

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STEPS TO DEAD ORTHODOXY:

"Study what period of church history you will, the first step to heterodoxy has always been a dead orthodoxy."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 20, 2022

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CHRISTIAN IN NAME ONLY:

"There are too many who call themselves Bible-believing Christians who are only so because this has been the established position in their youth, not because they are convinced that it is right. They find it rather comfortable to say the old phrases without doing anything about them. Thus, Christianity loses its dynamic power, and dead orthodoxy comes in like a flood."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 19, 2022

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ALL AGREED AGAINST US:

"We are the spiritual revolutionists of our hour. All else are agreed against us. The message of the cross is always against the whole world concept around about us. It is against the prince of this world. In spiritual matters, we have the revolutionary message, because the Biblical message in our age, as in every age, is totally contrary to all the religions of the world."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 18, 2022

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REVOLUTIONARY AND CONTRARY:

"Historic Christianity is revolutionary Spiritually. By revolutionary, I mean that it is totally contrary to all the other religions of the world."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 17, 2022

11:00:00

REVOLUTIONARY CHRISTIANITY:

"Bible-believing Christianity has been and is the true revolutionary Christianity. We have the revolutionary Christianity, not the Modernists and neo-Barthians."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Revolutionary Christianity, Biblical Missions 14.2 (February 1948)

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Jul 10, 2022

INEVITABLE RESULTS:

"These two world views [Christian and Secular Humanism] stand as totals in complete antithesis to each other in content and also in their natural results --including sociological and governmental results, and specifically including law. It is not that these two world views are different only in how they understand the nature of reality and existence. They also inevitably produce totally different results. The operative word here is inevitably. It is not just that they happen to bring forth different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Abolition of Truth and Morality (article)

Jul 06, 2022

11:00:00

TRUTH AND ANTITHESIS:

"...historic Christianity rests upon truth-not truth as an abstract concept, nor even what the 20th-century man regards as "religious truth," but objective truth. (The contrary to this is then an antithesis to the truth of what is.)"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Practice of Truth, World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin, 1966.

Jul 05, 2022

7:30

WHERE ARE YOUR INVESTMENTS?:

"When I was growing up in Philadelphia, I would hike every Saturday. To get to the clean air of the country I used to save a couple of miles by tramping through the city dump. I have never forgotten this. It was a place of junk, fire, stench. It has helped me tremendously to think back on that place, because even as a boy I realized that I saw there almost everything people spend their money for. There was their investment ended."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Ash Heap Lives

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Jul 02, 2022

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WEBSITE ENHANCEMENTS:

Francis Schaeffer Studies has made an upgrade to the "works" section of our website. Now searches on Francis and Edith's works will be more concise and more data is regularly being added. More upgrades coming in the near future!

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Jun 18, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESUPPOSITIONS:

"Francis Schaeffer taught us the presence and importance that presuppositions play in the makeup of our worldview. What we value and how we live are inescapably influenced by these realities. Schaeffer also taught us how to expose presuppositions, critique them, and in light of God revealed truth, transform them."

~ Danny Akin (100 Days of Schaeffer, SEBTS)

Jun 17, 2022

I SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME...MAN?:

"Even on the basis of Man's finiteness having people swear in court in the name of humanity, as some have advocated, saying something like, 'We pledge our honor before all mankind,' would be insufficient enough. But reduced to the materialistic view of Man, it is even less. Although many nice words may be used, in reality law constituted on this basis can only mean brute force."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

Jun 16, 2022

THE MATH FAILS:

"Humanism as I see it has a mathematical built-in guarantee of failure...beginning from a finite person you cannot project an absolute."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? An Interview With Francis Schaeffer, Christianity Today, Oct. 1976

Jun 15, 2022

ALL IS SPIRITUAL:

"It is not only that true spirituality covers all of life, but it covers all parts of the spectrum of life equally. In this sense there is nothing concerning reality that is not spiritual."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

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Jun 14, 2022

BEAUTY FROM ASHES:

"Our Assurance as children of the Living God is that He is able to bring beauty from ashes."

~ Edith Schaeffer, Affliction

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Jun 13, 2022

OUR OPPORTUNITY:

"Within the limits of our talents and personalities, with the confines of our circumstances...we are to have an increasing number of opportunities, of finding that 'tribulation worketh patience.'"

~ Edith Schaeffer, Affliction

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Jun 12, 2022

FRANCIS SCHAEFFER & RANALD MACAULAY PART 1:

An incredible interview with Ranald Macaulay, Francis Schaeffer's son-in-law. If you can make the time, we highly recommend watching!

~ Interview by Ferdie Mulder of Evangelical Platform

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Jun 11, 2022

THE CHANCE PARADE:

"[Man,] In his own naturalistic theories, with the uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system, with an evolutionary concept of a mechanical, chance parade from the atom to man, man has lost his unique identity. As he looks out upon the world, as he faces the machine, he cannot tell himself from what he faces. He cannot distinguish himself from other things."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time

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Jun 06, 2022

HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY:

"Human life stands at a crucial place because there is an unbreakable link between the existence of the infinite personal God and the intrinsic dignity of people."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Our Battle for Humanness, Moody Monthly, 1983.

May 31, 2022

FULL SPECTRUM EVANGELISM:

"To evangelize in the twentieth century, one has to operate across the whole spectrum of disciplines and have answers for the questions. I think we often sell Christianity short, not putting forth the richness we have in Christ for the total culture and the total intellectual life."

~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? An Interview With Francis Schaeffer, Christianity Today, Oct. 1976

May 24, 2022

FULL SPECTRUM EVANGELISM:

"To evangelize in the twentieth century, one has to operate across the whole spectrum of disciplines and have answers for the questions. I think we often sell Christianity short, not putting forth the richness we have in Christ for the total culture and the total intellectual life."

~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? An Interview With Francis Schaeffer, Christianity Today, Oct. 1976

May 23, 2022

LOSING HUMANNESS:

"In fulfilling our calling to lead individuals to Christ, which we must indeed never forget, we must also remember that we are called to be the salt and light to our culture. Our generation is not just lost spiritually; it is broken, it is hurting, it is losing its humanness."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Our Battle for Humanness, Moody Monthly, 1983.

May 18, 2022

SCHAEFFER ON INERRANCY:

"...we can say the Bible is without mistake and still destroy it if we bend the Scripture by our lives to fit this culture instead of judging the culture by the Scripture."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, What Difference Does Inerrancy Make?

May 17, 2022

TOTAL REALITY:

"When I say Christianity is true I mean it is true to total reality--the total of what is..."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

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May 16, 2022

UTTERLY MISTAKEN:

"Those who hold the material-energy, chance concept of reality,...not only do not know the truth of the final reality, God, they do not know who Man is...since their concept of Man is mistaken, their concept of society and of law is mistaken, and they have no sufficient base for either society or law."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

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May 13, 2022

THE SCHAEFFER COLLECTION:

The L'Abri Ideas Library has a free audio library of both Francis and Edith Schaeffer available for download. Take time to explore this collection!

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May 11, 2022

ALL IS SPIRITUAL:

"It is not only that true spirituality covers all of life, but it covers all parts of the spectrum of life equally. In this sense there is nothing concerning reality that is not spiritual."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

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May 08, 2022

TRUTH AND COMMUNITY:

"Every Christian group ought to have these two elements: a presentation of the truth and an exhibition of community that substantiates it."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? An Interview With Francis Schaeffer, Christianity Today, Oct. 1976

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May 06, 2022

FIGHTING THE ABNORMAL:

"...when abnormality breaks over me, I can fight what is wrong, yet still not revolt against God. Thus I can have a thankful heart, though living consciously in the Bible's outlook concerning the present world as abnormal. In this setting, the importance of saying, 'thank you' in the worst aspects of the battle becomes clear."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality, Editor's note: Dr. Schaeffer regularly used the term 'abnormal' to describe the implications of the fall of man in Genesis.

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May 04, 2022

A PERSONAL THANK YOU:

"We have said that we are to love God enough to say, 'Thank You' even for the difficult things [in previous chapters of True Spirituality]. We must immediately understand, as we say this, that this has no meaning whatsoever unless we live in a personal universe in which there is a personal God who objectively exists."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

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May 02, 2022

TWO PRACTICAL TEST:

"...there are two practical tests as to when we are coveting against God or men; first, I am to love God enough to be contented; second, I am to love men enough not to envy."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality

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Apr 25, 2022

PRACTICING TRUTH:

"...in an age of synthesis, men will not take our protestations of truth seriously unless they see by our actions that we practice truth and antithesis in the unity we try to establish, and in our activities."

~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There Appendix C. The Practice of Truth

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Apr 23, 2022

RADICALS FOR TRUTH:

"...what we need in light of the accommodation about us is a generation of radicals for truth and for Christ. We need a young generation and others who will be willing to stand in loving confrontation, but real confrontation, in contrast to the mentality of constant accommodation with the current forms of the world spirit as they surround us today, and in contrast to the way in which so much of evangelicalism has developed the automatic mentality of accommodation at each successive point."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster

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Apr 19, 2022

SOCIOLOGICAL LIFE:

"'sociological law'--that is, law based only on what the majority of society thinks is in its best interests at a given moment--and 'sociological news,' slanted to produce what some person thinks will produce a helpful sociological result. Now arbitrary abortion has opened wide the door at the point of life and death for 'sociological medicine'--not just for the yet unborn but for all human life."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?

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Apr 18, 2022

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SCHAEFFER ON INFLATION?:

"The problem is that though the pendulum may swing from the liberal to the conservative side, if economic well-being is not forthcoming (for example, the control of inflation), having no base for real values, there could easily be another swing to some form of an elite which gave the promise of affluence and personal peace."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century.

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Apr 17, 2022

HIS EXALTATION:

The One who was spat upon and humiliated before the eyes of sinful men is now head over all things.

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Basic Bible Studies, commentary on Ephesians 1:20–22

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Apr 16, 2022

HIS HUMILIATION:

Consider the various forms of humiliation and agony heaped upon Jesus in these hours. Remember that this is God who allowed Himself to be so treated.

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Basic Bible Studies, commentary on Matthew 27:11–50

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Apr 15, 2022

HIS SUFFERING:

As He hung upon the cross, having taken upon Himself the sin of those who would trust Him as Savior, God the Father turned from Him. His physical sufferings were great, but were not the greatest part of His suffering.

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Basic Bible Studies, commentary on Matthew 27:46

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Apr 14, 2022

WHY ISCA?:

Watch Dan Guinn and Donald Williams in this panel discussion on "Why the International Society of Christian Apologetics?" is so important and why we are involved.

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Apr 12, 2022

FOREVER FOR LIFE:

"Christianity should never give any onlooker the right to conclude that Christianity believes in the negation of life."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, DITC

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Apr 07, 2022

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LOVING COMMUNITY:

"For Schaeffer the reality of the loving community was not something we could organize and create but rather it had to flow from Christ work in and through us."

~ Andrew Fellows, "The Church Before the Watching World:" Francis Schaeffer's Burdens, from He Still Speaks, Francis Schaeffer's Enduring Legacy

Apr 05, 2022

ON PACIFISM:

"One can understand the pacifism of the 'peaceful churches': they have always taken Christ's command to individuals to turn the other cheek and misguidedly extended it to the state. They ignore the God-given responsibility of the state to protect its people and stand for justice in a fallen world."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is For Peace? p28.

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Apr 03, 2022

SCHAEFFER'S TRUE-TRUTH:

"In a moment when there is a great muddle about what truth is, Schaeffer was crystal clear. He even added the prefix 'true' to truth to convey the force of this, ie., 'true truth.' As he loved to say, 'the final great concept of truth is that Christianity is true to what is there."

~ Andrew Fellows, "The Church Before the Watching World:" Francis Schaeffer's Burdens, from He Still Speaks, Francis Schaeffer's Enduring Legacy

Apr 02, 2022

CLEAR COMMANDS IGNORED:

"American conservative Christians are not as biblical as they think they are. In support of this claim we need look no further than the fact that, we are clearly commanded always to be ready to make a defense to anyone who asks a reason for the home that is within us (1 Peter 3:15), vast swaths of our adherents think it is somehow unspiritual to obey the biblical commandment."

~ Dr. Donald Williams, 95 Theses for a New Reformation p246.

Apr 01, 2022

FACING THE ABNORMAL:

"The world is an abnormal world. Because of the Fall, it is not what God meant it to be. There are many things in this world which grieve use, but we must face them."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is For Peace? p24.

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Mar 31, 2022

TWO PRINCIPLES:

"Two biblical principles must be practiced simultaneously, at each step of the way, if we are to be really Bible-believing Christians. One is the principle of the practice of the purity of the visible church. The other is the principle of an observable love among all true Christians."

~ Francis Schaeffer, We Don't Have Forever

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Mar 30, 2022

SCHAEFFER AND TRUTH:

"One reason truth mattered so much to Schaeffer was because he could see that it was fast becoming a relic of Western culture."

~ Andrew Fellows, "The Church Before the Watching World:" Francis Schaeffer's Burdens, from He Still Speaks, Francis Schaeffer's Enduring Legacy

Mar 22, 2022

NEVER UTOPIAN:

"We never have the luxury of acting in a merely utopian way. Utopian schemes in this fallen world have always brought tragedy. The Bible is never utopian."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace

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Mar 21, 2022

FRANCIS SCHAEFFER STUDIES AT ISCA:

Next week Dan Guinn and Dr. Donald Williams will present at the International Society of Christian Apologetics conference hosted at Southern Evangelical Seminary!

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Mar 18, 2022

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Mar 17, 2022

I DO NOT PRAY FOR JUSTICE:

"I must say, when I pray for my country and our culture, I do not pray for God's justice. I can only plead for His mercy. If we had justice of God, we would not have peace. We would have a situation like Jeremiah's. How dare we pray for justice upon our culture when we have so deliberately turned away from God and His revelation?"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer

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Mar 16, 2022

GIVING UP LIBERTY:

"..the majority of what was called the silent majority, who are living on the memory of the practical advantages that Christian culture gave, but without a base for these advantages. Their values are affluence (they are practical materialists) and personal peace at any price. Having no base, no absolutes, most of them will compromise liberty if they are finally forced to choose between their affluence and personal peace on the one hand and giving up a piece of liberty on the other."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century

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Mar 14, 2022

11:00:00

THE ESSENTIAL MARK:

"Christianity views human creativity as an essential mark of our having been made in the image of God."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p13.

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Mar 13, 2022

11:00:00

OF PACIFISM:

"This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live--this lost world--means that we desert the people who need our greatest help."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p23.

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Mar 12, 2022

11:00:00

OF THOSE UNDER OPPRESSION:

"I would say that to refuse to do what I can for those under the power of oppressors is nothing less than a failure of Christian love. It is to refuse to love my neighbor as myself"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p23.

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Mar 11, 2022

11:00:00

STAND FIRM:

"Our calling is clear: we who hold the Christian world view, and who love human life, and who affirm humanity as bearing the image of God, should stand firm--first for the honor of God, but also for the preservation of 'humanness.'"

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p19.

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Mar 10, 2022

11:00:00

NOT YET TOTAL:

"Ours is a humanistic culture. But happily this consensus and culture is not yet total; there is still what we might call a Christian 'memory,' although it is ebbing away with enormous speed."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p19.

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Mar 10, 2022

14:00:00

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

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Mar 09, 2022

11:00:00

THOSE IN GOVERNMENT:

"If anyone, especially those of you in government, thinks the issue is small, I plead with you again. Hitherto the whole fabric of human life in the Western tradition has rested on Judeo-Christian underpinnings. These are being pulled away."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p18.

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Mar 08, 2022

11:00:00

TOWARD THE WHOLLY VALUELESS:

"...when you have jettisoned any fixed and transcendent reality that invests human life with unique and objective value, you have opened the sluiceway: you cannot shut off the surge toward a wholly valueless appraisal of human life."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p17.

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Mar 07, 2022

17:00:00

AN ELEGANT IRONY:

"...there is a grim and elegant irony at work: the task of undermining the Judeo-Christian understanding of the uniqueness and dignity of human life is being carried forward by none other than two ancient guardians of life, namely medicine and law."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Who is for Peace? p18.

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Mar 05, 2022

18:00:00

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