“Your problem is that your preaching did not effectively bridge the distance between your people and Christ’s work. Instead you hurdled it and ended up on this side. You may have become (no matter how unwittingly) a pulpit proclaimer of practical ethics or a sermonic psychologist. But you are no longer — in any vital …
Good and Hard
“Any man seeking control of the engines of the state, the better to accomplish his plundering, always promises to make the great businesses pay taxes — and the envious man cheers. But of course, no business ever paid a tax without passing it on to the consumer, and the envious man finds himself paying for …
The Flight Attendants Are Lying
I have noted before that one of the things that the fundamentalist mindset does well is identify the logical trajectory of an idea fifteen minutes after it is first stated. In contrast to this, there is a sophisticated and nuanced academic mindset that likes to fiddle, discuss, analyze, count, and try on different readings of, …
Without Property Rights There Are No Human Rights
One of the complaints made against King George III in our Declaration of Independence was this one: “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Multitude of new offices. Swarms of officers. Harassment from the government. Eating out our substance. …
No Comparisons, Darn It
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 …