Lane has come back from presbytery, apparently unscathed, and wants to resume our discussion. So here we go. He says: “I was saying that you were rejecting any overlap between obedience and works, such that you could say that the CoW was based on grace, and that obedience was required, but works were not. I …
Seeking Financial Wisdom
Many Christians tend not to think of their work, their business, their money, as being under the specific authority of God. We acknowledge that He owns it all, in a general way, but when it comes to money we frequently assume He is some kind of an absentee landlord, who doesn’t much mind what we …
Always Learning, Never Getting It
The word hamartano is used once in 1 Timothy, when Paul warns that Timothy is not to permit an accusation except on the basis of two or three witnesses. Those who are found to have sinned need to be rebuked publicly so that the others might fear (1 Tim. 5:20). Hamartia comes up three times …
And This Was True Even Before the Internet
“Would it not be a great degradation of your office if you were to keep an army of spies in your pay to collect information as to all that your people said of you? And yet it amounts to this if you allow certain busybodies to bring you all the gossip of the place. Drive …
Just a Hop and a Jump
“The distance between social democracy and totalitarianism is very short, largely because the latter is implied in the former” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 201).
Context Matters
“Utterly forgiven, and all by God’s grace in Christ, the early Protestants could scrutinize their failings and sins. All this done in much the same way that a boy might study an ugly tooth that had caused him so much pain . . . after it was out” (For Kirk and Covenant, p. 114).
Colonies of Heavean
INTRODUCTION: On Ascension Sunday, we mark the glorious coronation of the Lord Jesus. After His resurrection, He established to His disciples that He was in fact alive forever, and then He ascended into the heavens. When He did this, He was received by the Ancient of Days, and was given universal authority over all the …
And Why Mystify the Author’s Father?
Here is some fun news. Nate’s book 100 Cupboards is doing quite well by various indicators. One of the more striking indicators is the matter of foreign rights. Thus far, foreign rights have been picked up for thirteen countries, with others in the works. Translated (heh), that means 100 Cupboards is now slated to show …
In a Second Gutenberg Era
Well, here at the end of April, year of our Lord, 2008, this blog is now four-years-old. So watch out everybody — we’re about to move into preschool. Seriously, many thanks to all of you who drop by to visit. Over the course of a month, the average number of distinct visitors is pretty robust. …
Plunderers and Plunderees
Another important aspect of Third World debt forgiveness is one I have alluded to several times, but we have not yet developed it. And that concerns this subject — who is it, exactly, that is doing the forgiving, and on whose behalf is it being done? And on what authority? The money that was loaned …