I think it goes without saying that biblical Christians will vote in November in a way that favors basic pro-life issues, supports a return to some form of fiscal sanity, and rejects all attempts at legislative gender-bending. So much goes without saying. So I am not so much concerned about how our folks vote, for …
Sexual Death
“Those who worship sexual pleasure receive, in the long run, the destruction of the thing they worship. Wisdom tells us in Proverbs that all who hate her love death (Prov. 8:36). Those who hate sexual wisdom love sexual death” (Fidelity, p. 32).
T. David Gordon Says Mean Things
“Our seminary curricula are largely identical to what they were around the First World War, but the entering seminarian is a profoundly different person than was the seminarian of the early twentieth century. Then, the individual was well-read in poetry, and had studied nearly a decade of classical language (Latin, Greek, or both), learning by …
Two Influential Thinkers of the Western World
HT: Johnny Simmons
Hitch On Prayer
Here are some thoughts by Christopher on the efficacy of prayers for his cancer. The obvious conclusion is that we need to double down.
Internet Kudos
Here is a web site that looks like a promising bundle of theological resources. Kudos to the guys who got this going again.
Not Wrath for Lust; Lust as Wrath
“Burning lust that overflows is not an example of men getting away from God (as they like to tell themselves); it is an example of the wrath of God catching up with men” (Fidelity, p. 31).
And His Kids Are Ugly . . .
“So why don’t churches routinely conduct annual reviews of their ministers? Because ministers don’t want to be told that their preaching is disorganized, hard to follow, irrelevant, and poorly reasoned” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, p. 34).
Ready or Not
Suppose that an American daisy-cutter bomb had been dropped on Mecca, and blew up their sacred rock. Suppose further that through a series of circumstances, a Southern Baptist gentleman proposed building a Christian chapel on the lip of that crater. We would be justified in supposing this man to be any number of things, but …
Cocaine and Strippers
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #10 “But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men” …