When Isaiah has his great vision of the thrice-holy God, his immediate reaction is to recoil in the realization that he dwells among a people of unclean lips (Is. 6:5). The Lord Jesus teaches that the overflow of the mouth reveals the true state of the heart (Matt. 12:34). Hypocrisy can bottle such things up …
Love Is Never Later
Thabiti’s most recent post is really very good. I want to begin by mentioning again how pleased I am to able to discuss this issue with him, and in this way. Not only am I pleased with his charitable disposition, and his fair-mindedness in understanding views that are not his own, I am also excited …
How Koinonia Conquers
Reprinted by permission from Omnibus III, p. 275. Philemon Have you ever been watching a football game on television, and the game is being played in a city hundreds of miles away? But the team is your team; when they fumble the ball, you fumble the ball. When they give up two touchdowns in a …
Actual Experience
“The point of these stories had been pressed home to him by the kind of preachers who rolled up their shirtsleeves, threw their necktie over the right shoulder, and hopped around while they preached. Many Americans have complained of too many hellfire and damnation sermons in their past, but Bradford was one of the 112 …
True Gift
“The salvation that God is working into us is actually God Himself — God gives Himself in our salvation” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 56).
Patrick “Nostradamus” Henry
I know that some of you all have been following this, but in case you haven’t, let me try to bring you up to speed. Last week Bryan Loritts posted on my book Black & Tan, and you can read him here. In the course of responding to my book, he also associated me with …
So to Speak
“And when the blind lead the blind, they both fall into a youth ministry” (Evangellyfish, p. 95).
Incoherent Heresy
“When we consider the three persons of the holy Trinity, we must not fall into the heretical mistake of thinking that, out of the three of them, Jesus is the humble one” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 55).
Not Included in Plenary Inspiration
“The result has been to lead both preachers and hearers to think of every chapter and every verse as a sort of separate whole. It is curious to observe how rarely we hear read in public the latter part of one chapter and earlier part of the next, though the slightest care for the real …
All in the Original Hebrew
One of the concerns that has been raised about moi, as Miss Piggy might say, is that I might be racially insensitive. That is actually a serious concern, which I hope to address seriously later, but I do need to acknowledge at the front end that there are some senses and some ways in which …