“The next morning, while brushing her perfect white teeth, the truth revealed by her manifest and palpable relief over the whole thing came crashing in on her, and so she sat down and acknowledged to herself what was in fact the case. She was a goner. And he was clueless. High-minded. An office full of thick books. Accreditation visits. Scholarly articles. All of that. Stupid man. Dear stupid, stupid man.”
Don Quist, RIP
Welcome, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have gathered at a Christian funeral or memorial service, and this means that everything in it should revolve around the word honor. We are ...
And Quite Satisfying
Heralds, Not Hacks
“People-pleasers and time-fillers never make good preachers. We are . . . appointed to proclaim what God has said, not what people want to hear.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 87
An Actual Handicap
“For Maria was a beauty. And she had decided some years before that there was quite possibly an inverse relationship between feminine beauty and feminine happiness. When she first came to Choctaw Valley, it had taken her almost a year to make any friends at all. Most of the boys were terrified of her, and those who weren’t scared of her were terrified of what the other girls would do if they even talked to her. And needless to say, the girls were usually pretty sullen around her, although in a sweet southern way. All they ever wanted to do whenever they were with her was go to the restroom to check their makeup.”
Book of the Month/March 2020
First, apologies for the late book of the month announcement. Things have been hopping around here. This month, I have selected Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell. The subtitle is America Since the Sixties, and if you are among those who have been wondering what on earth actually happened to us, this book will answer …
The Content Cluster Muster (03.05.20)
Now That’s a Bit of All Right: More here. Some good ones too. Apparently a Subject of Some Interest: So we recorded this almost ten years ago, and yet it remains one of the most consistently viewed of all our Ask Doug videos, competing heartily with the new ones. That being the case, I thought …
If the Sermon is Water, the Word in the Man is the Well
“True preaching is never a superficial activity; it wells up out of the depths.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 86
Admittedly . . .
“Maria Barancho had been a fixture at Choctaw Valley for some years now, but she was an odd-out sort of fixture. She was a black-haired, brown-eyed Italian in the midst of a bunch of pale Celts who, for some reason, liked to think of themselves as Anglo-Saxons. This is like a German confusing himself with a Frenchman, but the history is admittedly complicated.”
A Brief Rejoinder to Preston Sprinkle
Introduction: I met Preston Sprinkle a few years ago in Denver when we debated the question of guns for a Q conference. He was affable, well-spoken, and intelligent. We got on well. At the ...
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