What do belief in evolution, belief in global warming, and belief in the possibility of space aliens who subscribe to a blue state recycling ethos all have in common? Well, they are all attested by Science, you rube. I am pleased to say that I made it all the way through this article without wheezing …
Something Always Was, Right?
[Answering the objection of the infinite regress, “who created the creator?”] Unless there is a known principle excluding the eternality of anything at all, there could be no basis for such an objection. And were we to cook up such a principle, we would find that it excluded, not only God, but the possibility of …
Depending on the Library
“As Austin Phelps put it at the end of the last century, a thoroughly trained preacher is first a human being, at home among human beings, and then a scholar, at home in libraries” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 191).
What Jesus Keeps in His Tent
In Luke 11, Jesus has an encounter with some who were saying that He had cast out a devil through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. Throughout the exchange that follows there are clear echos of the Goliath story. Those saying this about Jesus thought, in effect, that the slaying of Goliath must have been …
Turns Out Here is Strange Enough
Of course, I want to drop a mention from time to time about the upcoming Grace Agenda conference. Why wouldn’t we drop a mention? We want you to come. In this go-round, I wanted to draw attention to one of the talks that I think should be a stem winder, although I don’t know what …
Medicine Kills
“For Hitchens to point out all the problems in the world and blame them on ‘religion’ is like writing a book attacking ‘medicine,’ that well-meaning endeavor which has killed its untold millions. But to get this result we have to define medicine as ‘anything that comes, promising relief, in bottles or any other container.’ That …
Of Course, Neither Are We Supposed to Be
“It is essential to give up the illusion that we come to the biblical text as innocent, objective, impartial, culture-free investigators, for we are nothing of the kind” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 185).
Fathers, not Sugar Daddies
Let us start with an obvious principle, and then go on to show that it is a biblical principle. Sometimes earthy observations are dismissed by Christians as having a carnal wisdom to them but, it is supposed, they somehow are not representative of the “way of the Spirit.” The principle is that you get more …
Jonathan and Annike
In the name of the God of all grace, welcome. Jonathan, grace and peace to you. Annike, may grace and peace be multiplied to you, in such a way as enables you to return it to Jonathan again, pressed down, shaken, and running over. As Christians, we are engaged by the Holy Spirit in the …
A Form of Insanity
INTRODUCTION:Goliath was a very great giant, but envy is a greater giant still. Just as giants devour, so envy devours. Envy grows on unnatural food, and when a person gives way to temptation and eats this food, the results are perverse. THE TEXT:“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking …