In Chapter 10 of The Rage Against God, Peter Hitchens nails down the loosest board on the side of atheism’s house. So to speak. Unfortunately for atheism, this does not repair the house, but rather causes the whole thing to fall down. According to Peter, the atheists “have a fundamental inability to concede that to …
Thunder, Lightning, and Blue Ruin
The next chapter of James Davison Hunter’s book To Change the World is like the previous chapters — full of good and true information, but to what end? The same data does different things in differing eschatological paradigms. A postmill guy like me takes it as a prophetic given that the gospel has been transforming …
Crisis and the Church
In a few weeks, I will be down in Boise for a conference sponsored by The King’s Congregation, a sister congregation in the CREC. More information can be found here. Just think, Boise is probably closer to your house than you think.
Love is Not Relativism
INTRODUCTION: We are the beta test for the new humanity, but this might require some explanation. Jesus Christ is the perfect man, but we are not yet grown up into that perfect man (Eph. 4: 13). So, as far as we go, we are the working prototype of what God is up to. There are …
Herd Instincts in Church
We want to come to the Table in faith, and not because of superstitious attachment to ritual. At the same time, we don’t want to avoid superstitious ritual by avoiding ritual itself—that would be a superstitious attachment to the arid intellectual customs of the modern age. This stark contrast between faith and superstition can be …
Stealth Disobedience
The Bible instructs us on how we are to live together. When we do not follow those instructions, there are two kinds of disobedience. One is flagrant, and knows that it is disobedient. When professing Christians give way to these sorts of temptations, the results are called theft, adultery, fornication, sodomy, false witness and so …
Our Own Definition of Love
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 that we as a people have drifted into …
Dangerous Women
Here is a copy of the address that Nancy gave to a graduating class of eleven girls at Trinitas in Pensacola. The folks there are just wonderful, with hospitality to match.
No Particular Axe to Grind
In the introduction to Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals, William Balke says two important things — important, that is, to the point I would like to make here. The first is that the name anabaptist results in a classic example of misdirection. “The name ‘Anabaptist,’ or ‘rebaptizer,’ picks out what actually was only an incidental …
Hoop Skirts and Jazz
I am clearly on an authenticity jag, and so I must crave your pardon. Here I go some more. Nancy and I just got back from a brief road trip with some friends, in the course of which we spent some time in New Orleans and some of its environs. Two of the (really cool) …