Theology That Bites Back
Letter to the Editor: "A man might be foolish for not seeing the tell tale signs of the trap . . . Other ministers foolishly failed in their calling by not recognizing the wolves in sheep’s ...
“The real power of your oratory must be your own intelligent delight in what you are doing.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 134
“Give your sermon an orderly consistent progress, and do not hesitate to let your hearers see it distinctly, for it will help them first to understand and then to remember what you say.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 134
“Contrary to the theory of evolution, we are not over-developed animals who moved away from the ‘natural’ and down into the ‘artificial.’ For man, the artificial is natural. We want nothing to do with Rousseau’s noble savage.”
Ploductivity, p. 41
“We are told other things about the Second Person of the Trinity elsewhere in Scripture—He is the icon of God, He is the wisdom of God, He is the Son of God, He is the light from God, and so on. But there is a peculiar primacy given to the Word. This is that which defines all else.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 47
Introduction: Allow me, if you will, to address the issues of true liberty, liberty of conscience, and the vaccine mandates. As more COVID mandates look to be coming at us, all hot and heavy like, ...
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“The true way to get rid of the boniness of your sermon is not by leaving out the skeleton, but by clothing it with flesh.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 134
“This contributes to the problem that many Christians have, which is assuming that tools are extraneous to our humanity, and not essential. Somebody thought them up, and perhaps they shouldn’t have. But when we see that tools are a subset of media, and that media were obviously a gifts from God, given to us through the mere fact of creation, we should become much more comfortable with the idea of tools as essential to our humanity.”
Ploductivity, p. 37
“Cultures pass through aesthetic phases as they rise and fall, and the last phase is the phase of decadence. It is the phase in which sensate spectacle is glorified, and it is a sign, not of glory but of decrepitude.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 45
