“And Bill used to play that role just fine. If Bill had been a local potentate centuries before, and his city was under siege, and he had been told by the randy and imperious besieger to ‘Surrender all your gold, and let us ravish all your women,’ Bill would have appeared above the city gates to say something along the lines of ‘Okay!’”
The Evangelical Problem with Pieces and Bits
Introduction: A fragmented worldview is one that is made up of pieces and bits, and all of it thrown into a cardboard box. When something happens that calls for a response, what you do is rummage ...
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126: Ball of Collusion
This week Pastor Wilson talks the compartmentalization of hypocrites, the greek word aselgeia, and recommends the book Ball of Collusion. Don’t forget to grab his brand new book, Ploductivity at https://canonpress.com/products/ploductivity
126: Ball of Collusion
This week Pastor Wilson talks the compartmentalization of hypocrites, the greek word aselgeia, and recommends the book Ball of Collusion. Don’t forget to grab his brand new book, Ploductivity at https://canonpress.com/products/ploductivity
Holiness Not Legalism
“To teach the standards of moral conduct that adorn the gospel and insist that our hearers heed them is neither legalism nor pharisaism but plain apostolic Christianity.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 35
How Could It Not?
“The controversy had gone national when he had achieved the high-water mark of two running jokes on Letterman. Here was a mega-bestselling evangelical author, caught up in a sex scandal. How could he not make it to Letterman? Then somebody took the AP wire, stretched it across the road and waited for Chad to come around the corner on a motorcycle like some nondescript Nazi in pursuit of somebody important in an old WWII movie. That had happened on Thursday.”
Letters With Light Feet
Letter to the Editor: Good stuff! You might enjoy Andrew McCarthy's podcast. You might also enjoy Dan Bongino's. He's an ex-Secret Service agent and an ex-NYC cop, which gives him ...
A Leaky Elder-Meeting Basement
“His moral authority was apparently stuck, like an oil-soaked T-shirt down in the sump pump, and this made it hard to control the flooding in this elder-meeting basement of his.”
Above All Else
“Jesus Christ . . . is the fulfillment of every human desire (Col. 2:3, 9-10). Therefore, above all else, we must preach Christ.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 34
Safeguards Schmafeguards
Introduction: I just finished reading Ball of Collusion by Andrew McCarthy, and what a grim treat that was. McCarthy walks us through the entire Russia collusion story that has been wound ...
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