The Republicans of Connecticut have picked Linda McMahon to run for the U.S. Senate. She made her millions in the very odd world of professional wrestling, and I have already seen more than one airing of a video clip in which she is holding a microphone and kicking someone in the crotch, professional wrestling style. …
Not to Mention the Ecclesiastical Variant
“While falling, a number of people have the temporary sensation of absolute freedom, and they seek to use that freedom in the creation and pursuit of various sexualities. And that is why we are now dealing metrosexuals, sodomites, catamites, lesbians, virtual perverts, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals — not the mention the ecclesiastical variants, the lesbyterians. …
Marring a Good Tale in the Telling
“Let all those who are God’s angels — and desire to be honoured as his angels and ambassadors — fulfill the responsibilities of God’s angels, lest (as many men mar a good tale in the telling) they take away the power and majesty of God’s Word in the way they deliver it” (Perkins, The Art …
High Philosophy on the Carpet
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #7 “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath …
And I Mean All the Furniture
“This is why the question of women’s ordination is emphatically not about a simple matter of including women in Christian ministry. It is not a simple matter of rearranging the furniture. This is about redefining the nature of Christian ministry, in order to make it compatible with another religion entirely. And this is why, once …
So Leave the Pots and Pans in the Kitchen
“The preaching of the Word is the testimony of God and the profession of the knowledge of Christ, not of human skill. Furthermore, the hearers ought not to ascribe their faith to the gifts of men, but to the power of God’s Word (1 Cor. 2:1, 2, 5). But this does not mean that pulpits …
The Memoirs of Old Walnut Heart
My fifth bit of advice for writers was this: “Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.” But let’s unpack this a bit. 1. Concert pianists do what they …
The First Law of Sanctification
“We are seeking to understand the disintegration of the culture around us, and in order to do this rightly we have to keep coming back to this foundational principle. Worship drives and shapes all of human existence, and it does so according to this principle: you become like what you worship” (Why Ministers Must be …
Exegetical Restraint
“Note, however, that doctrines ought to be deduced from passages only when it is proper and valid to do so. They must be derived from the genuine meaning of the Scripture. Otherwise we will end up drawing any doctrine from any place in the Bible” (Perkins, The Art of Prophesying, p. 51).
Avoiding the Arbitrary
“Traditionalists are fighting a rear-guard action, trying to keep women out of a post that they clearly more qualified for than men are. Feelings can run high in the debate, but the debate is essentially over whether men only or women and men both should occupy the post of an essentially feminized office. If anyone …