“Micro-aggressions are to real sin what LaCroix is to fruit juice.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 156
The Spots Are Not Beauty Marks
“Secularism is not the genius of the West but is rather the disease of the West.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 148
The Duty of Natural Affection
. . . The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this and every country but his own. W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado Introduction: As I have watched the Twitters over the months ...
When Evil Improves Something
“Think for a moment. Would it have improved The Lord of the Rings if Tolkien had left out Sauron? Or Saruman? Or the Nazgul? Or Gollum? With the disappearance of each villain or antagonist, is the story getting progressively better? Or worse?”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 144
Letters That Are Creeping Up on August
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your tireless work, not only to start a restored method of education, but also to be such a defender of the faith. My question is about the millennium. ...
Well Look at That
“‘Is Wilson suggesting that because parents are Christians, their baptized children also are Christians?’ No, not at all. Baptism is not necessary. The unbaptized children of Christians are Christians. That’s why we baptize them. But I do wonder why John Robbins thinks we should baptize them. I also wonder why he thinks I am out of conformity with the Westminster position, and he is not, for which see below: ‘Before baptism, the minister is to use some words of instruction, touching the institution, nature, use, and ends of this sacrament, shewing . . . that they [children] are Christians, and federally holy before baptism, and therefore are they baptized’ (Westminster Directory for the Publick Worship of God, emphasis mine).”
And Don’t Act Surprised
“However you examine it, the Protestant Reformation in the English-speaking world was the location, the context, and the setting, of a literary supernova.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 125
Like a Pair of Old Jeans
Introduction: Many times those who are listening to the debates over hyper-preterism concentrate too much on the debaters and what they are saying, when they really ought to take a look at the universe ...
Timothy and Epaphroditus
Philippians (9): Sermon Video Introduction: The Christian faith is by no means a solitary business. The grace of regeneration extends to each individual, but because this grace is brought ...
Enough to Take the Breath Away
“Why . . . just the other day I was listening in my pick-up truck to a tape by a gentleman named Dr. Scott Clark, and he said that we Federal Vision types did not believe that Jesus lived a life of perfect, sinless obedience! I was so flummoxed by this that I pulled my truck over to the side of the road, and had to lay myself down on the highway with my feet on the bumper just to get the blood back into my head. Then when the state patrolman asked me what I thought I was doing, I explained it to him, and he couldn’t believe it either. Actually, I made this last little bit up—just a little fib—but that’s okay. We’re all under grace.”