What follows is a point that will have to be made again and again in the coming years, but that is no reason not to make it now, right? The reason evangelicals have been outmaneuvered on the politics of same-sex marriage is because modern evangelicalism is now structurally liberal, and they are structurally liberal because …
Leaving a Red Welt on Your Forehead
All, It looks like I will be spending a few days with dodgey connectivity, and so if it seems like I fell off the face of the earth, I probably did. But who knows? It might be better than I have heard, and up I will pop in your RSS feed like one of those …
Gospel Presence II: Gospel Center, Gospel Edges
Introduction The gospel message provides a hard center for our lives, but we must make sure that we do not understand this as an isolated hard center. We want the gospel to be a taproot to the entire tree, and not an isolated boulder in a field of scattered boulders. The litmus test is whether …
No Hope Without Jesus
The Bible teaches that sin is organic. It grows and develops, and does so in a natural progression. There are many images of this, but the upshot is that the harvest of terrible consequences does not look anything like the field did when it was first planted. When sin is trans-generational, this means that the …
Wine Into Vinegar
We are summoned to this Table in faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and we want our time here to be entirely pleasing to Him, as well as to ourselves. This means that we must come with full, complete, entire, evangelical faith in Jesus. We may come with our sins, because that …
The Words Would Just Flow
“The physical activity of writing was nothing to him. When it came to pensive reflections of man and his existential condition (as mirrored in the experiences of Robert P.), foreign film reviews that were allowed to make as little sense as the films themselves, extended discussions of how the pert French breasts in those films …
Learning to be Glorious
“If a woman is a man’s glory, learning how to respond as a woman to a godly man is learning to be glorious” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 68).
Federal Vision Controversy, R.I.P.?
For those who have been following the case, Peter Leithart was tried and exonerated by his presbytery (Pacific Northwest). There was a complaint about it, and so now the SJC of the entire PCA heard the case, and Peter Leithart was found to be teaching within the boundaries of the Westminster Standards. There is a …
Speaking of Having Too Much Fun . . .
Logos Dads Band Concert at the Nuart from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.
And CDA is Beautiful . . .
I am not the only one in the world with shameless appeals. Here is one from my friend Stuart Bryan . . . Greetings! On April 26-27th at the Hampton Inn in Coeur d’Alene, Jason Farley, Ben Merkle, Bill Stutzman and Stuart Bryan will be speaking on The Spirit Came Upon Them: Poetry in Scripture …