INTRODUCTION: As God gives us the grace, we will now begin to work our way through the prophecy of Amos. Apart from what is revealed in his writing here, we know nothing about the man. Among the minor prophets, he occupies the vanguard in this period of Israel’s history, even though he is placed third …
A Brick Through the Windshield
Ted Olsen at CT asks Jim Wallis some pointed questions. HT: Justin Taylor And I am afraid I have to make a few comments about his pathetic answers. When Olsen asked him about his stance on abortion — “protecting unborn life in every possible way, but without criminalizing abortion,” Wallis responded by saying that the …
Obedience and Life
Lane begins to interact with the Joint Federal Vision Profession here. The place he begins is with the issue of bi-covenantalism. “However, I will seek to prove one example where I believe that the FV statement is thoroughly non-confessional. As we all know, the PCA study committee report roundly reinforced a bi-covenantal structure to the …
Another Road Less Traveled
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 139 “He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come want” (Prov. 22:16). We have seen earlier in Proverbs that the man who lends to the poor is lending to …
The Last Side of this Square
Paul uses hamartia twice in the book of Colossians. In the first instance, he reminds the Colossians that they had redemption through the blood of Christ, a redemption that amounted to “forgiveness of sins” (1:14). The second use involves more metaphorical subtleties. He says in 2:11 that the Colossians had been circumcised with the circumcision …
Love More Than Books
“Many preachers are utterly ignorant as to how the bulk of the people are living; they are at home among books, but quite at sea among men . . . Read men as well as books, and love men rather than opinions, or you will be inanimate preachers” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. …
Institutionalized Strife
“The alternative to free economic activity is not cooperation but coercion . . . Redistribution is absolutely incompatible with peace. Accepted as a norm for civil life, it means that social strife is inevitable” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 134).
Real Ambition
The message this last Lord’s Day was on ambition.
Christ and Pizza
Frank Turk poses a question that I would like to take just a moment to answer. From his neo-Niebuhrian list, the answer is clearly #3, for the following (briefly stated) reasons. If Christ is not above pizza, then why to do we bow our heads over it to thank God for it in His name? …
Penalties for Do-Goodery
I take it as a given that Christians are called to be a force for good and for decency in the world, and that this good and this decency are best exhibited face-to-face with people you know and live with. The debates that arise when I write about what I am going to write about …