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How Envy Devours
Introduction This chapter marks the beginning of civil war in Israel. There had been strains and tensions before, but now it breaks out into open hostilities. As we will see, there are noble men on both sides, and scoundrels on both sides. Life is not always a simple white hats/black hats affair. The Text: “And …
However Do We Manage That?
Self-deception is hard to understand, and even harder to see. Think for a moment about what self-deception involves. You have to be cunning enough to tell yourself a lie, and you have to gullible enough to believe it. How can that happen? How can one part of you pull the wool over the eyes of …
Partaking to Partake
Our corporate participation in this meal, together with all other saints in the world, is a corporate participation in one person, the Lord Jesus. This means, obviously, that He is no ordinary person, but rather is an Adam. Adam was a public person—that is, we were in him when he sinned. His sin was ours, …
Chasing the Laser Pointer Dot
If I may, I would like to urge all Christians interested in the future of education reform to continue their hot pursuit of said reform, but not to do so like a kitten pursuing a laser pointer dot on the rug. We live in exciting pedagogical times, and the arrival of many more options in …
Tattoos Say So Much
“This part of town had their crazy pastors too, but they mainly operated out of storefronts with names like Knee Deep in Glory Gospel Center. And some of their pastors had tattoos, but these were tattoos that said, ‘I was in the Navy once, before I met Jesus,’ instead of the uptown ecclesiastical version that …
Very Much Like Him
“For about three centuries, we have been taught (by the devil, or someone very much like him) that grime is more ‘authentic’ than being clean, being disheveled is more real than being put together, and so on. Like most lies of this nature, the destructive impact of it falls most heavily on women . . …
Retail Detritus
“Three miles down that stretch of freeway, he downshifted and pulled off the highway on the next exit ramp he came to, turned right at the light, and headed off down a strip occupoed by mobile-home dealers, tattoo parlors, and numerous stores full of retail detritus” (Evangellyfish, p. 150).
A True Gift
“One of the best ways for a man to love a woman is to love her children” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 82).
Doing Them Earthly Good
“Preachers do men the most good as to this world in proportion as they bring them to care most for the world to come” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 101).