“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #7 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to …
With apologies to Lord Byron . . .
THE DESTRUCTION OF OMAMACARE The nannies came down like the wolf on the fold,Their promises gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their foreheads was like grease on the road,Where a blue Hummer hit a nocturnal toad. Like the leaves of the forest when the Fed is in bloom,That host and their trillions came …
The Rage Against God
This is going to be a potent book. Much more about this later.
Micaiah Isn’t Here Yet
I think that it is fair to say that since the heyday of Francis Schaeffer, most committed evangelical believers have known that our theology must be engaged with the culture around us, and that we are supposed to be salt and light. We are supposed to make a difference. Before that, the question didn’t really …
21 Principles a Christian Citizen Must Know (In the Age of Obama)
INTRODUCTION:Because the teaching of the apostle Paul on civil authority is widely misunderstood and misrepresented, we are going to take our time going through this section. And because the instructions here are to Christian citizens and subjects, we are going to begin with a scriptural introduction to this entire subject. And because of who is …
Let Us Not Inquire About the Chitlins
In his next chapter, Pollan does yeoman’s work in putting us off our feed. He does this by taking us to a feedlot in Kansas, an animal city where multitudes of cows are fed corn until the day of slaughter. In the olden days, it took 4-5 years before a cow was slaughtered. Now we …
Natcherly
While visiting this evening after our sabbath dinner, we got on to sleep stories, and I was reminded of a good one that happened to us years ago — back in our E street days, not that this means anything to you all. But I digress . . . I was sleeping soundly one night, …
Breasts and Wombs Matter
I have now finished James K.A. Smith’s book, Desiring the Kingdom. On my Goodreads page, I rated it at 3 stars, not because it was a mediocre book, but rather because parts of it were outstanding and parts were atrocious. 3 was taking an average. The main failing of the book was that while Smith …
Snobbery is not Excellence
We live in a generation in love with specialization. To a certain extent this is unavoidable—God has called particular individuals to particular vocational callings from the beginning of the world. But every believer is called by God to that vocation, and he is to pursue it in faith while oriented rightly to the rest of …
He Has the Same Problem
As one writer aptly put it, one of the reasons we go to church is to learn how to love people we don’t like very much. And the testing point of this is here, at this Table. When you come, you are coming as a reconciled people, and this means that you are not only …