I haven’t had anything to say about the Wikileaks fiasco, and I still don’t have anything extended to say. But a few little things have occurred to me. The size of the document dumps clearly indicates classified material inflation. Better safe than sorry takes over, and pretty soon you have classified materials which, if stacked …
Our Keystonekoppery Responses
Terrorism is in the first place theater, and we have responded to it with a security system that is equally theatrical. Terrorism is theater that has a violent component to be sure, but that is not the main point. The last thing that our current terrorism is designed to do is provoke a real fight. …
The Right Kind of Sustainability
“The Puritans recovered the biblical teaching that the marriage bed was to be honored and not just tolerated. They gave themselves to the married state with a strong commitment, and one of their great contributions to our culture was the establishment of the view that romantic and erotic devotion was sustainable within the covenant of …
Some of Them Really Strange
“If the legitimate ministry is unfaithful, God will still be heard . . . The ordinary channels of hearing the Word of God have been clogged up by every kind of infidelity, but God’s Word has been heard in some of the strangest ways and some of the strangest places” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading …
Drunkards and Late Night Comedians
Thomas Watson makes a number of good points with regard to verbal persecution. He notes that “some think there is no persecution but fire and sword.” While we honor highly those who have bled for Christ, we have to acknowledge that Jesus identifies slanders and revilings as forms of persecution that His followers must endure. …
The TSA Must Think We’re Mushrooms
The TSA must think we’re mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow. Allow me to explain. They say that the images from their new porno scanners are images …
Knowledge of Good and Evil
INTRODUCTION: The Lord Jesus was born in this world in order to reestablish mankind. The first mankind in Adam had failed at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and so Jesus was born into this world in order to rebuild the ruin we had created here. Our celebrations at this time of …
Inclusion Excludes Exclusion
Scripture contains two fundamental principles when it comes to the eating of sacred meals. The first principle concerns what we eat, and the second principle concerns with whom we eat. The answers to these questions for Christians are, respectively, bread and wine, and with all who call upon the name of the true God. Excluded …
You Didn’t Have To . . .
C.S. Lewis once commented on our tendency to guard against the error we are least likely to fall into. Faced with a flood, he says, we break out the fire extinguishers. And so we guard against what we think are the pressing temptations of our day, and over time we come to think that the …
National Sellf-Deception
Father, Your Word calls us to speak without deceitful lips. And yet our sinful nation, which has so much sin to confess, does not even bother to confess sin falsely. We think that we have no sin, not as sin is defined in Your Word. And it is at just this point that Your Word …