1. Active resistance to tyranny, and to this tyranny in particular, is not just permissible for Christians. It is mandatory. 2. The question is therefore what form the resistance should take, and not whether there should be resistance. 3. The theological basis for this resistance is that Jesus is Lord, and Caesar is not. Jesus …
Talk About a Fixed Given
“God has made us in relation to Him, and nothing we can do will alter this. He is always our Maker and we are always made. He is always our Creator and we are always created” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 46).
And Then the Darkness Falls
I am pleased to introduce the extended trailer for the The Rage Against God to you. There are some potent moments in here. Fine work by Gorilla Poet Productions.
Now That’s What Lessons are For
A friend knows that I generally take a dim view of church organs, and thought that this might make me change my mind.
The Laugh Track of Unbelief
I prefer love over lies, peace over war, the taste of butterscotch over the taste of spinach, Christ over Baal, the straight over the crooked, the Navy over the Army, the Greeks over the Persians, the hills over the plains, two weeks of sunshine over two weeks of gray fog, feminine women over effeminate men, …
All Jakesy Jukesy
The national debt apportions out to each citizen at about 40K apiece. This would not be counting any off-ledger shenanighans, whose name is no doubt Legion, and it is not counting the bender that the president yesterday signed into what passes for law these days. It was good that no Republican voted for the health …
Wineskins Soaked in Wine Puddles
In his next chapter, Peter Hitchens writes about the threshhold that England crossed during his boyhood. The chapter is about the culture-wide failure of nerve, and is entitled “A Loss of Confidence.” Here he astutely points out that atheism is not so much an individual opinion, honestly derived from the force of inexorable arguments, but …
Jim Wallis’ Moral Compass is Actually a Weather Vane
A lot of post mortems everywhere. Here is a good one.
No Better Off If We Eat It
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #8 “Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us …
Obamacare and Seven Layers of Failure
Some might believe that it is premature to pronounce Obamacare a failure, since the president is only going to be signing it today. Why, some might wonder, shouldn’t we give it a chance? There is no need to give it a chance — it has already failed in seven significant ways. First, the Bible says …