Hunter follows his chapter on the Christian Right with a chapter on the Christian Left. As with the previous chapter, this one is mostly overview of the players and positions, and it is a helpful overview. While there is a temptation to dash off to engage with some silly thing or other that Jim Wallis …
Types of Preaching
Preachers need to remember that the way to the heart is through the head, but the preacher is to take that route and drive toward the heart without stopping. Too many turn aside at the head to eat bread and drink water, and that is why a lion kills them (1 Kings 13:9-10). Too many …
News Flash: Secularists Support Secularism
To believe in the inevitability of anything is to have a doctrine of history. To deny that one has a doctrine of history and yet to hold to the inevitability of anything is to take back with one hand what you gave with the other. Secularism, the idea that a civilization can function for an …
Hear the Light
This another one from the vault. The phrase in the title was inspired, if I remember correctly, by one of the first magazine ads I ever saw for fiber optic cable. But that is not what the song is about. {audio}HeartheLight.mp3{/audio}
Paul is the Key
When something gets off kilter, and we react to it, we generally fix it wrong. Previous reaction fixes are probably the reason things are off kilter now, and a new reaction fix is just rearranging the problem furniture — and not fixing the problem furniture. I have been preaching in Romans for over a year, …
The Touchdown Dance with the Fist Pumps
I noticed some interesting connections this morning in James 2. Believers are told not to have faith in Jesus in a way that displayed “respect of persons” (v. 1). The meaning of this is illustrated by the scenario he sets for us. If some resplendent rich guy comes into your church, a potential big tither, …
European Style Cancer
A common rallying cry for conservative activists, including Christians, is that we need “to take America back.” Okay, sign me up. Take America back where? Generally the point is that we need to take America back from the liberals and progressives — the secularists in the academy, the homosexuals in the streets, and the raunchy …
Try a Little Tenderness
As I mentioned the other day, we are now actively archiving old Credenda essays one at a time. The latest new old Husbandry article is up.
Some Robust Hotel Coffee
It is not often that I get to agree with a 4-point Calvinist about limited atonement, so when I do, I ought to seize the opportunity. Right? First, check out this statement here. I believe Alcorn is absolutely right that the plain teaching of Scripture trumps our logical mastications. I also believe he is right …
Time Well Spent
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #3 “Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our …