Theology That Bites Back
So I have an update on the subscription drive that will enable the final arrival of The Silent Bells, the fourth and final installment of the fantastic Ashtown series. As many of you know, this was the deal. If 2,000 people subscribed to a newsprint version (mailed to their very own door) of each chapter …
Sermon Video Introduction: Consistent Christians are not anarchists or scofflaws. We are gathered together today in this particular way precisely because we are not scofflaws. Every Christian ...
“The preacher needs courage — not courage to believe but courage to proclaim the truth, however unpalatable, and to rebuke where rebukes are necessary. It is inevitable that he will arouse opposition. ‘They that intend to serve God faithfully and to proclaim his Word will never lack enemies.’”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 40
“The ceiling of the room where the cocktail party was held was thickly covered with numerous chandeliers, the hotel ballroom kind of chandelier, and with all of them putting out the kind of light you might see at the lower wattage end of a brown out. The lights, however, were not flickering, which made you realize that somebody was doing it all on purpose. Despite the lighting, and perhaps because of it, the room was filled with major media figures, television personalities, editors and other detritus from the publishing world, a handful of decrepit rock stars, and throbbing electropop. Oom cha oom cha oom cha. Oh, and money. The room was full of money in very adult amounts, Manhattan scale, while the crackling envy and flirtation levels were all still stuck in junior high, Hoboken scale. The ‘atrocious lighting,’ as Dr. Tom summed it up, made it look like one of Dante’s circles done up in sepia tones.”
The Basic Issue: The Washington Examiner now has a good story about how GooglePlus suspended our Christ Church app for Android over some of our content related to the coronavirus. It is a very good story, and you can pick up on all the salient facts there. They did leave out one thing, which is …
“It would be better for him to break his neck going up into the pulpit if he does not take pains to be the first to follow God.”
Calvin, in Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 40
“Pretend you just told me that you read about some people who crept into my house in the middle of the night and they swear they found some porn in my library or under my bed. And you want to maintain that they are dishonest enough to break into my house like this, but honest enough not to plant the porn there? How did you get criminals like this with just the right balance of honesty and dishonesty?”
Introduction: This will be a brief intro to a very brief collection of corona-related links from around the web. Maybe an editorial comment or two. So That Was Nice of Them: Although His Answer Was True Enough: The governor of New Jersey gives us a peek inside their thought processes. But at Least Facebook Has …
