When God invites us to reason together with Him, He invites us to think about something that makes plain sense. When men are given over to what they call the pursuit of reason, they are often trying to manufacture something that doesn’t make sense except to a select few. God stoops and offers to wash …
What She Doesn’t Have for Sale
As I have done some blog touring during this political season, I have come across a category of “conservative” blogs that try to adhere to what is called Rule 5 by a number of these blogs. I think the rule was formulated by Stacy McCain (theothermccain.com), offering to teach you how to get a million …
What the Goblins Under the Mountain Call It
Yeats notwithstanding, we are not exactly slouching toward Bethlehem. Slouching toward Bedlam is more like it. As the culture around us has gotten ever weirder, and as the leadership of our Reformed and evangelical subculture has done its level best to keep abreast of all the latest advances (lest we be dismissed for being what …
Josiah Will Find It
In the typological relationship of Old Testament to New Testament, we have to remember the importance of terrain. Mountain ranges answer to mountain ranges, great rivers to great rivers, canyons to canyons, and of course, ordinary meadows to ordinary meadows. A great mountain would be something like the relationship of Adam to the second Adam …
When to Stop and Smell the Cattle Barns
I am fond of saying that God is perfect, but He is not a perfectionist. There are many ways in which we might pursue this, but I want to talk about our political process for a moment. I agree with and accept one of the criticisms that is made of the Ron Paul movement — …
And Then, Wham
As news comes in that China is starting to teeter, allow me to take a moment to remind everybody that there are two kinds of money. Given that miscreants are often put in charge of economies, the boundary between the two kinds of money is frequently murky, but it is important to note the two …
The Politics of Christmas
Introduction The carnal, unbelieving mind always understands political rule in a particular way. The names may change—Pharaoh, Caesar, pope, or president-for-life—but the underlying realities are always the same. These realities have to do with tyranny and coercion, and the imposition of a right-handed power, the kind of power that is necessarily suspicious of biblical liberty. …
A Body That Could Die
The body that was broken for you was a body broken on the cross. But the body that was broken on the cross was the same body that was formed in the womb of the virgin. And that body was taken on by the eternal Word in order that it might be broken. The blood …
Christmas and the Philosophers
When Christ was born into the human race, He had come to rescue a race that was entirely lost. We were not entirely forsaken—because of His gracious intention for us—but we were entirely lost. This means that everything we had with us was lost too. When a hiker is lost in the woods, not only …
The Singing Revolution
The other night Nancy and I watched the documentary The Singing Revolution. If you have a chance to get a copy, it is well worth your time. The documentary chronicles Estonia’s path to liberation from the Soviet Union, and shows the crucial role that music played in that liberation. There were a number of takeaway …