“If a man is coming to the Table with a bad attitude, then he should not hold back from partaking. Rather, he should come confessing the attitude. But what if he remembers his brother has something against him (Matt. 5:23)? The passage is talking about presenting a gift, and not about receiving this gift from …
Honor Through Rest
Gracious God and Father, we lift our grateful hearts to You now, and ask that You would be pleased to honor Your name through our rest before You. We ask that we would be enabled by Your Spirit to take it easy, to set down the burdens of our vocational callings, and prepare our hearts …
Slavery and Atheism
In Letter From A Christian Citizen, I argue two basic points concerning slavery. The first is that atheism does not provide us with any solid ground for condemning slavery. This does not keep atheists from condemning slavery. It just keeps them from having a good reason for doing so. “From an atheistic perspective, how can …
Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Virginia Tech
Let’s tie two timely issues together. This is sometimes dangerous, because when issues are timely, they are also frequently raw, and this means that it is easy to be misunderstood. But I will try to state this basic argument against atheism as briefly and as clearly as I can. The first timely issue is the …
Lots of Things We Could Do
Letter from a Christian Citizen has drawn the attention of Richard Dawkins, and there was quite a discussion over at his blog. If you want to take a look, you can see it all here. I am not asking you to go over there to pile into the discussion — in fact I would recommend …
Don’t Pretend to be Happy
For those who have followed the discussions around Debbie Maken’s book, my wife has just posted on the same subject here.
Time for the Next Step
The Supreme Court (5-4) upheld the constitutionality of legislation outlawing partial birth abotions. We still have a long way to go, but this is a genuine first step. Glory to God.
Greeting Cards and the Atonement
Afflicted with pretty much everything, the modern church is certainly looking around for remedies. But where and how we look for these remedies remains a function of what ails us, and we are not yet desparate enough to ask for directions to the divine pharmacy. How are we to explain our general cultural irrelevance? On …
A Cornucopia of Bushwah
The evangelical world is still sitting under modernity’s table, eager for any crumbs that may fall our way. The big news down here is when some rock star or other intimates that it is possible that, under certain conditions, he might believe in a divine being other than himself. We snatch it up eagerly and …
Guilt and Responsibility
Questions concerning life and death remain before us. In the passage we are considering now, more aspects of the sixth commandment are unfolded. If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it . . . (Deuteronomy 21:1-23) In old Israel, when a man was found slain, …