We have had a really good response to the videos we have been posting over at CanonWIRED. In the Ask Doug segments, we have received a lot of good questions, but some might be wondering something like, “Yeah, that’s true, and that point, that’s good . . . but where’s the beauty? That Wilson guy …
Changing My Name to Van Wilsma
A few weeks ago I taught at a conference in Boise together with my friend Alan Burrow, and the audio from that conference is now available here. Here is a good thing. Some Canadian Reformed theologians interact with some questions related to the FV, and they do so as adults. If anybody else is watching, …
Which Explains All the Typonis
In discussing the Right, the Left, and the Anas, Hunter begins his next chapter by noting the fact that “the three competing myths discussed here, and the political theologies that derive from them, are all held passionately by people of the same faith community” (p. 176). But in doing this, Hunter does something else that …
Of Cannonballs and Cow Patties
I had a great time with this article by my brother — Gordon Wilson — who teaches science here at NSA. The intricacies of God’s incredible design work are found absolutely everywhere. How many times does God try to make us exclaim “No way!”
For All Our Stupid Little Days
“Turning to relationships, Solomon says that men are to live joyfully with their wives for all their stupid little days. We think this would sound terrible on an anniversary card — because we are governed more by sentiment than by wisdom. How is this possible? Apart from the grace of God it is not possible. …
Always Persuasive at the Time
“Charles Spurgeon tells of the most extreme case, the man who ‘preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it, they all declared he never ought to enter it again'” (Sargent, The Sacred Anointing, …
Superstitious Atheism
In his next chapter, Peter Hitchens compares the respective gullibilities of the believing Christian and the “scientific” atheist. Atheists believe this to be one of their strong points, which Peter appears to recognize. “How the materialists like to jeer at the naive faith of the peasant, fooled by relics, faith healers, and the general hocus-pocus …
A Preposition That Makes All the Difference
“In this place, Solomon bluntly asserts that God controls all things. He does not say how God does it. Only a blockhead of the first order of magnitude would think to explain the way in which God reveals Himself through His works . . . We tend to assume, echoing Shakespeare, that the history of …
A Structural Servant
“Tricks of homiletics were repugnant to Lloyd-Jones. This does not mean he had no interest in structure. The reverse was the case. But form in a sermon is to be the preacher’s servant and not his superintendent” (Sargent, The Sacred Anointing, p. 115).
How Tight the Baptismal Wagons are Circled
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #5 “Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized …