“Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth—far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is …
Living Out the Will of God
“But if a man stops to get the will of God in tying in shoe, or on making a lane change, he will soon be experiencing what might be called piety paralysis. God governs the world; we are not competent. Our lives are a mist. This does not mean we are to throw up our …
Muddy Water
“These quarrels hinder men’s judgments. If the water is muddy, we cannot see what lies at the bottom” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 276).
Church Sign Smackdown
What if there were a web site that allowed you to generate your own church signs. There is? You could perhaps wind up with a battle of the church signs. HT: Scott Linn
Just Goes to Show
The happy fallout from the NYT article continues. Here is my former undergraduate advisor, Nick Gier, telling the sorry tale of how I squandered the legacy of my UI philosophy degree. First, Gier has clearly opted for a different strategy in his response to this article — some of his fellow Intoleristas have been fit …
The Holy One of God
We begin here with Christ’s teaching ministry. This leads directly to a public exorcism in the synagogue, followed by a private healing at Simon and Andrew’s house, and then, when the word got around, many healings and exorcisms at the front door of that house. “And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath …
The Puritan and Nature
“The Romantic poet wishes to be absorbed into Nature, the Elizabethan, to absorb her” (C.S. Lewis, English Literature in the 16th Century, p. 341).
The Lord With Us
INTRODUCTION: There are seven Old Testament passages quoted in the first chapter of Hebrews alone. And five of those seven passages have to do with the submission of the nations to Christ. And that is what the entire book is about—and we are taught this through the author showing us that this is what the …
No Problem Texts
“One way to escape extremes of neglect and overemphasis is to work steadily through books of the Bible or at least whole chapters, expounding everything, shirking nothing” (John Stott, A Preacher’s Portrait, p. 26).
Work It Off If You Can
“The offenders must repent before Allah, but Allah decides whether or not to forgive him. On Judgment Day the person will discover whether or not Allah will forgive him . . . In short, Allah alone decides whether a person is forgiven. If he commits a big sin, he is at Allah’s mercy. If he …