“If we look into the Scriptures we shall find God never called people into the state of grace or to any notable work or function in his church without first humbling them” (Perkins, The Art of Prophesying, p. 158).
Very Little Stones
So I have said more than once that secularism is on its last legs. Where do I get off saying that? Why that pronouncement? There are a number of ways this argument can be made, but allow me to point to just a couple. These indicators are not my own private claim to be able …
Here’s Something
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Hitch-25
A few weeks ago I reviewed Peter Hitchens’ fine book, The Rage Against God. Here is a detailed interview with him about it by Hugh Hewitt.
Breeders No More
Christian parents of high school students really need to think through their assumptions about higher education. And by “think through,” I really mean “rethink.” Here is a link to help kick start that process. Christians need to stop being the secularist breeding program.
Maybe Just Talking . . .
“Again, note the need for high levels of courage. If we are preaching in such a way that courage is not necessary, then what are we doing” (Why Ministers Must Be Men, p. 56).
Golden Words and Dead Lives
“If ministers are to see any fruit from their ministry, they must first sanctify themselves and cleanse their hearts by repentance before they presume to stand up to rebuke sin in others. Let them not think that their golden words will do as much good as their dead lives will do harm” (Perkins, The Art …
An Epidemic of Hot Water in the Morning
I had been working my way through Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma when I was, as I put it, overtooken by events. Having hacked my way through those events, I am now prepared to return to the pleasant task of enjoying Pollan’s prose and personality, and the less pleasant task of pointing out his wowserism. …
Orthodoxy in a Box
The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of my perennial Sunday morning books, and this morning I was reading along, minding my own business, when one of the characters tried to deliver a confessional blow to my federal vision sympathies. He said, and I quote . . . “For to talk of such things is most profitable; …
Rule of Thumb
“God never tries a nation or a people generally with trials which deliver them into the hands of their enemies unless it be for their sins” (Thomas Watson, Jerusalem’s Glory, p. 72).