“He didn’t say copy the nations. He didn’t say run from the nations. He said disciple the nations.”
Our Only Task
“The Christian response must be to insist that all of their idols have to be overthrown. That is what true Christian cultural engagement is. That is the only thing that Christian cultural engagement can ever possibly be.”
True Response
“In the face of the kind of evil that is abroad in the world, evangelical Christians need to stop filling up their worship services with sentimentalist treacle and to start worshiping biblically in a very dark world.”
Against That Day
“We cannot get people back to a love for God by means of sentimentalist kitten hugging. We do it by declaring the wrath to come, and the staggering provision that God has made for ugly and defiant sinners against that day of wrath.”
The Actual Standard
“I have often argued that Christian parents ought to accept the fact that their job is not to get their children to simply conform to the standard, but rather to get their children to love the standard.”
Principles and Methods
“Back in the day, brigands and highwaymen would take your purse by waving a cutlass under your nose, and a modern mugger might use a Glock, about which the prophet Isaiah says nothing. This should not leave us scratching our heads about the lawfulness of armed robbery.”
Everything Is Connected
“Our information about that has to come from men whose minds have been steeped in Scripture, but who also have learned what constitutes a valid argument from Aristotle, who have learned how pins are made from Adam Smith, who have realized through natural revelation that the law of supply and demand cannot be repealed by Congress any more than the law of gravity can be, and who have studied the history of theology and economics.”
The Foundation of LIberty
“A people who are enslaved to their lusts will never be the kind of people who successfully throw off tyrants. We have been offered a series of bribes—free love, porn, drunkenness, government handouts, and other forms of lotus-eating—and these are the bribes that make us content with the dimensions of our prison cell.”
Identical Reasons
“There is no biblical way to be a friend of true authority without being, simultaneously, and for the same reasons, a deadly foe of tyranny.”
Peter Was Not the Inconsistent One
[Concerning Acts 12:7-10] “Peter then went over to John Mark’s house, left a message, and disappeared from the book of Acts a wanted man, on the lam, with his picture in all the post offices. This was what we would call a jailbreak, and it was not just a bit of innocent fun. The guards here were executed for negligence they had not been guilty of (Acts. 12:19), and yet, despite the seriousness of the issues, Peter did not consult with a bunch of modern Christians, who would have urgently advised that he turn himself in—citing, as they did so, with tears in their eyes, 1 Peter 2:13-17.”