As Buffalo Springfield put it once, something’s happening here. Over the years at Logos School, we have been consistently proud of our students, and of their high level of performance coupled with consistent cheerfulness. All the classes have been remarkable, and some of them have been spooky. I remember one time, a number of years …
Fruitful Training
So Read and Read Some More
Over at CanonWIRED, Nate and I have a conversation about the task of writing. In the near future, we may have another conversation about the mechanics of writing. Here it is.
That Wobbly Tower
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #11 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful …
Life in the Historical Realities
“It is vitally important that the subjective realities of the Christian life always be kept in the closest contact with the objective realities of what God has done for us in His Son. It is the job of preachers and preaching to make that connect clear” (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 102).
Measurement is no Explanation
“The imago Dei does not retard the process of corruption. Consequently, if that is where we look in order to discover that image, then we will come to nothing but despair. In the last analysis, scientism can only measure how fast we rot. Knowledge of the final judgment and how men as men will stand …
Spending Moral Capital Can Result in Spent Moral Capital
The next chapter of Peter’s book is chilling. He describes the last days of the Soviet Union and the years he lived there, along with his experiences as a journalist in Mogadishu. The take away point from this chapter is found here, and it is a point that the church in the West — evangelicals …
Meum and Tuum
So let’s come at this from another angle. We are talking about whether goverments can steal, and once that seemingly obvious point is settled, at what point their taking becomes pillage. And the brief answer is that it become indefensible when they can’t defend what they are doing from the Word of God. In City …
More on Government Thievery
The discussion about what constitutes governmental theft is most important — because an awful lot of it is going on these days, and an awful lot of Christians do not appear to have the principles straight on how to identify it. The Scriptures are clear — qualification to rule must include a hatred of covetousness. …
Over at FlingPoo.com
A few weeks ago I posted, and responded to, Bruce Waltke’s video in which he was urging us to to believe in evolution — evolution or spiritual death was the alternative as he presented it. Since that time, and because of that video, he has resigned his position at RTS in Orlando, and has now …