We have gathered here at a meal, the Lord’s Meal, and so we should want to be aware of anything that might get between us and the food. Table manners can present that kind of barrier. This happens when you don’t have any manners, and you have table anarchy, or if you have a complex …
Sins of Redefinition
Father in Heaven, we have wanted to deal with sin by redefining it, and we confess to you now, on behalf of a wicked generation, that our redefinitions have been self-serving and absurd. We have wanted to robe our bloodthirst in the sanctity of law, and we have wanted to reduce Your gospel to language …
Eh? Blotcher Bulldo?
The miscreants and felons that we have appointed to interpret our Constitution for us have managed, over the years, to stretch the commerce clause to a point where only theoretical physicists can understand quite how they did it. A farmer who raises his very own grain to feed to his very own cattle, the manure …
The Verb Kopiao
“When referring to elders worthy of double honor, Paul describes them as men who work to the point of exhaustion at ‘preaching and teaching’ (1 Tim. 5:17) (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 87).
Dirty Pearls
“It is the part of wisdom to refuse to go pearl diving in a cesspool, but only folly, only a beetlewit, would walk by a pile of pearls because a few of them were dirty” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 187).
A Spavined Cow With the Staggers
As I write this, it appears that my home state of Idaho may be the first state to nullify Obamacare. From the initial pinching of oneself to determine if one is having too much of a happy dream, to the realization that such an action would in fact be momentous, an obvious thing to do …
And the Children You Have Given Me
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #27 “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire …
Clumsy Ecclesiastics
“It is a colossal understatement to suggest that preaching and preachers have fallen on hard times in recent years . . . I am convinced that preaching is held in such low esteem today because a great many preachers are so utterly inept at the task” (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 86).
Always More Room at the Bottom
“There is no situation so bad that we, through a bad attitude, cannot make . . . worse” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 179).
Chesterton Himself
Chesterton once said, speaking of those who accommodate themselves to the trend of the times, that “at its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there.” It is not that hard to spook a herd. The trend is that things are trending. The buffalo …