“It is this jaundiced eye of cold matter-of-fact which is unable to perceive the beauty of sparkling metaphors and images, and therefore sees instead mere eccentricity . . . Doubtless there are many others who are condemned for their eccentricity by the simpletons around them, because they have wealthy creative minds, and scatter pearls with …
Six or Seven Blankets
“The lovemaking of this biblical couple [in the Song of Songs] is clearly not occuring in the dark under six or seven blankets. This couple is very open with one another and take a great sexual delight in their communion. This delight concentrates on specifics and is not just a general approval of sex, whatever …
All the Regular Fudge
“It is easy enough among Dissenters to find regulations as rigid as could be invented by any bench of bishops; you may not vary the length of the hymn or the order of the service by a hair’s breadth, or you will sin against your own reputation and the feelings of the conservative portion of …
Shut Up in His Lazar House
So I have made a great deal out of the Great Commission, where Jesus tells His apostles to disciple the nations. I have noted that the direct object of that verb is the ethne, the people, the tribe, the whole unit. This means the question has arisen whether I am overlooking the explanatory participles following …
Loving the Little Years
And here is the same thing with my daughter Rachel’s new book, Loving the Little Years. We are really excited about this one. Same deal applies. It releases next month, and pre-orders get free shipping. You can pre-order here.
And Other Useful Comments
Below you may peruse the front and back of Nancy’s latest book, which is currently at the printers, due to be released next month. But I would urge you to look at it long enough to pick out the subtitle — we don’t want any misunderstandings. If you pre-order, which you may do here, you …
What They Did Not Know
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #15 “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even …
The Entitlement
“An undisciplined man does not want to be troubled by such labors; he wants simply to follow his testosterone wherever it leads. If thrilling sex is there, he takes it. If it is not, he wonders ‘how come?’ Good sex is assumed to be something guaranteed to him by the Bill of Rights” (Fidelity, p. …
A True Oddball
“But of this I feel quite sure, that if any man will make up his mind that he will only say what he believes to be strictly true, he will be thought odd and eccentric before the sun goes down” (Spurgeon, Eccentric Preachers, p. 79).
Words and Water, Bread and Wine
Two great Christian heresies — Marxism and Islam — borrowed something from the Christian faith which Christians should actually ask to have returned. They borrowed it, used it to great effect, and Christians for some reason let them, neglecting this idea ourselves. That “thing” they borrowed was a sense of inevitable victory for their cause. …