Understanding the biblical story as a whole is what enables us to understand the cycles within that story. If the Bible were just a grab bag of illustrations and anecdotes, to be applied by us willy nilly, then any fool could justify any situation at any time. But there is a logic to these things, …
Worldview Fist Pumping
After my previous post on Pearcey and the pomos, one correspondent wrote to me, asking me to respond to this review of Pearcey’s book by Alissa Wilkinson. Now in the review, Wilkinson has a laudable “credit where credit is due” pattern that I appreciated very much. But at the end of the day, she was …
Let Us Depart Hence
In Saving Leonardo, Nancy Pearcey writes very helpfully about the fact/value distinction that modern secularism depends upon. In doing this, she is taking one of Francis Schaeffer’s basic illustrations and pushing it into the corners. One particularly helpful observation she made is that postmodernism, despite all the posturing, keeps this quintessential modern dichotomy intact. Postmodernism …
Some People Like Groaners
A man walked into a bar with a dog, and told the men at the bar that he was willing to bet them a round of drinks that his dog was actually a talking dog. “You’re on,” one of the men said. The man turned to his dog and said, “What is on the top …
Remembering the Sniff
I am fond of saying that God is perfect, but not a perfectionist. Related to this, with imitation of God in mind, is my conviction that the Church today needs a lot more puritans, and a lot fewer purists. And, if that were not difficult enough, we have to do it while consistently raising our …
A Rest Remains
INTRODUCTION:We are celebrating Easter, the day on which we commemorate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead. But not only did He rise, but all things were restored in Him, which is something we model, not only annually, but also on a weekly basis. We worship on the first day because we are …
The Faithful Dead on Tiptoe
The great struggle that the disciples of the Lord had, even after they had given up everything for His sake, and were following Him, was the struggle to understand what He was talking about. He often had to chide them for their unbelief, which is what He called it. They called it not getting the …
Not Where Your Mouth Is
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to “take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat” (Matt. 6:25). He is talking about physical life and physical food, and the obvious relationship between the two. He is telling us not to chase after our physical lives in the first instance, and that chasing …
Iniquity in Unbelief
Father of all nations, we confess that we are conceived in sin, and formed in iniquity. We confess that the central iniquity is that of not trusting and believing You, and so we have sought to fashion our own importance out of the brief moments we have in this life. We measure ourselves by ourselves, …
Couple Conference Plugs
I have plugged this conference before on the Quadrivium, and continue to recommend it. I mention it again, and link to it again, because they are adding speakers. It looks like a worthy event. Speaking of worthy events, the web page for our FallCon is active and going strong. We would love to see you …