The Lord comes to us in order to deal with our sinfulness, and our resultant sins. The Lord deals with us; He does not let us continue on as before. But at the same time, God deals us with in surprising ways. He deals with us by means of His grace. He washes us, teaches …
Not Basically Good at All
Father, Your Word says that no one does what is right, and our national catechism impudently contradicts this, saying that everyone is basically good. Father, we not only confess to You how bad we are as a nation, but we confess the lies that we tell ourselves about how bad we are. We pray that …
Jesus. Reason. Soap.
We are discussing mere Christendom as a construct for civilization. Since we have been here before, it is, more accurately, a construct for a renewed civilization. How is this necessary? C.S. Lewis once famously observed the wishful thinking of unbelievers. “In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We …
What We Think of as Problem Passages Are Often Solution Passages
“More than one Israelite man went to worship the golden calf because there was a good prospect there for getting laid. It sort of gave the ‘golden calf theology’ that little extra appeal. God struck twenty-three thousand of them down because of it. We should be well acquainted with God’s treatment of them, along with …
No Kidding . . .
“There is a relation between what predominates in our preaching and what we deem to be of greatest importance” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, 91).
Seven Things for Christians to Not Sip at the Tea Party
I think it goes without saying that biblical Christians will vote in November in a way that favors basic pro-life issues, supports a return to some form of fiscal sanity, and rejects all attempts at legislative gender-bending. So much goes without saying. So I am not so much concerned about how our folks vote, for …
Sexual Death
“Those who worship sexual pleasure receive, in the long run, the destruction of the thing they worship. Wisdom tells us in Proverbs that all who hate her love death (Prov. 8:36). Those who hate sexual wisdom love sexual death” (Fidelity, p. 32).
T. David Gordon Says Mean Things
“Our seminary curricula are largely identical to what they were around the First World War, but the entering seminarian is a profoundly different person than was the seminarian of the early twentieth century. Then, the individual was well-read in poetry, and had studied nearly a decade of classical language (Latin, Greek, or both), learning by …
Two Influential Thinkers of the Western World
HT: Johnny Simmons
Hitch On Prayer
Here are some thoughts by Christopher on the efficacy of prayers for his cancer. The obvious conclusion is that we need to double down.