“I believe I also know how to make a metaphor crawl up your back and make an unpleasant smacky noise in your ear” (God Is, p. 2).
Universal Sexual Application
“Moreover, since marriage is an ordinance of creation rather than of redemption, these divine standards apply to the whole human community, and not merely to a diminishing religious remnant . . . [speaking of sexual ethics, the ‘dispensibility’ of marriage, divorce and remarriage, and homosexual partnerships] Christians should enter vigorously into these debates, and fearlessly …
Those Cowed Already Will Continue to Be
Comes now some academic bloviation to help us all through whatever remaining prejudices we might have had about the molestation of children (HT: Baylyblog & Frank Turk). At issue is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is still, even in these postmodern times, filled with hatred and outmoded forms of discriminatory …
David the Giant Killer
INTRODUCTION:Although the sin of our first parents had placed us under bondage to the serpent, God very quickly gave us a promise that we would be avenged upon that serpent. He thus established the antithesis and promised a Messiah in the same place. This running battle is seen throughout Scripture, and the obligation to pursue …
No Miniscule Fraction
The psalmist asks “who can understand his errors?” We often think that it is enough to be ashamed of them, when we are really called to learn, through the Spirit, what the nature of our fault actually is. All such meditations should begin with the cross—God’s reply to our errors. When Jesus died on the …
Show the Lord’s Death
As you all know, we meet together every Lord’s Day. We do this in joyful recognition that Jesus rose from the dead. In this sense, every week contains an Easter. We declare this by our actions. And of course, all of the story of Christ must be present in order for us to understand any …
Eleven Theses on Private Spirits
Before getting into it, my views on the subject of continuing revelation are basically found in the first chapter of the Westminster Confession. “The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, …
Reason Is Not Dry
[Hitchens] “does not write like so many other atheistic rationalists — men who believe that the authority of reason (all rise!) necessitates a turgid kind of book that reads like it was put together by a committee of certified public accountants trying to write a phone book” (God Is, p. 1).
Application is Not Legalism
“There are many pastors today who, for fear of being branded ‘legalists’, give their congregation no ethical teaching. How far we have strayed from the apostles! ‘Legalism’ is the misguided attempt to earn our salvation by obedience to the law. ‘Pharisaism’ is a preoccupation with the externals and minutiae of religious duty. To teach the …
On Being a Tricksy Dancer
I would just like to take a moment to thank Phil Johnson for the gracious reply. I would also like to offer my apologies for being exasperating, and such a tricksy dancer. I don’t usually mean to be. I have a great deal of agreement with Phil’s premises, and therefore a lot of sympathy with …