Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, we confess to You now that our nation has been …
Hep Cat Theology Circles
All right, then, let us take a particularly thorny test case — America’s use of atomic bombs on Japan near the end of the Second World War. Does that measure up to just war standards? If so, why? If not, why not? The answer I would give is “of course not,” but I am aware …
Marshmallows and Cotton Balls
God governs the world in such a way as to prevent us from thinking that we can be in the right simply by holding correct opinions. God governs our lives in such a way that we have to choose between two items on this Chinese menu here, and we are not permitted to slip away …
The Human Heart As a Slippery Place
Book I/Chapter 6 Actual Knowledge (section 1) 1. What is the only source of actual knowledge of God? 2. Natural revelation is sufficient to produce only what? 3. What illustration does Calvin use to show what Scripture does? 4. Is knowledge of God as Creator sufficient for a man? 5. How can God be distinguished …
Interview Next Week
I am going to be interviewed next week on blog radio, and more information can be found here. The topic is classical education.
Rich Autumn Wisdom
I would like to take this moment to give the mother of all recommends. My father, Jim Wilson, has accumulated a lot of practical wisdom on relationships in his sixty years as a Christian. What he has done in this set of DVDs is gather together some of the most basic principles for living the …
A Judicious Temperament
I was in wait-and-see mode on Rick Warren praying at the inauguration. My initial reaction was uh oh, but being as judicious and thoughtful as I am, I thought I would wait and see what he actually said in his prayer. The upshot is that I was fully prepared to praise him for participating in …
Natural Revelation
Book 1/Chapter 5 Missing the point (section 13) 14. What did the princes of this world not understand? Speaking in vain (section 14) 15. How does the manifestation of God in nature speak in vain? No excuse (section 15) 16. If the glory of God is declared through nature unsuccessfully, then why does this not …
Violence and Vilence
There is not a word in the New Testament that hints that the Church is at odds with the State because the State is violent. When the Church is walking in the light and finds herself at odds with the State it is always because of statist idolatry, not because of violence. Those who believe …
Unbread from Unfathers
I have written in this thread before that many of our contemporary food oddities are little more than thinly disguised manifestations of father hunger. Of course, father hunger manifests itself in other pathological ways than food issues — sexual promiscuity, to name just one — but sure it is no coincidence that this era of …