Theology That Bites Back
“So the diamonds of the promise can only be found in the mines of difficulty—and some of those mines go very deep. But there are other mine shafts that are filled with nothing but useless rocks, and many thousands have spent their lives down in those holes.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 32
Letter to the Editor: You mentioned in your wedding homily that, unlike humans, animals were made male and female at the same time. This runs completely contrary to a poem I recently wrote ...
“We glory in tribulations, not because we are masochistic, but because we know that the rocky pathway winds up to the great mountaintop city. Still, we somethings look at the immediate landscape, which can be pretty grim, instead of looking at what is really happening. We look at how hard the path is, instead of where the hard path goes.”
Mines of Difficulty, pp. 30-31
Introduction: The raid that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife was a raid that raised a host of questions, but also answered a bunch of them. It was also an attack that got a lot of the chimps ...
According to Scripture, the creation of the man and the woman, our first parents, was not symmetrical. God did not fashion them as He did the beasts, which were all created male and female at the same time. He simply created the creatures, after their kind, we are told, and commanded them to multiply. But …
Acts of the Apostles (50): Introduction: We see in this passage how the sovereign God moves all things in accordance with His purpose and will, and He turns the machinations of the wicked back upon them. Right at the jump, God had told Paul that he was going to bear witness to Christ in Rome; …
“We have gotten to the point where we define vile behavior as any behavior that provokes someone else into behaving in a vile fashion. We look at rioters and blame the people who never riot.”
Mines of Difficulty, pp. 29-30
God our Father, Creator of all that exists, has been lavish in His generosity to us as His creatures. He has filled the earth with good things, and one of His central and foundational blessings is the gift of marriage. Even in this world’s fallen state, the gift of marriage is a blessing that brings …
“Notice that there are two elements here that Paul is concerned about. The first is the trial itself, and the second is the devil’s interpretation of it. Having a toothache is bad enough, but the suggestion that it is happening because God hates you is much worse. The deeper concern is the second one, the spin the devil puts on any trial.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 29
