When envy has you by the throat, what can you do? It might appear to you in virulent forms, or it might seem almost invisible—camouflaged nicely to fit in with what you have come to call the principle of the thing. Envy is one of the hardest sins to admit, and it is one of …
Taking Right Refuge
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, as we come before You to confess the sins of …
Smoke in the Eyes
INTRODUCTION:There are two dangers when it comes to the interpretation of biblical prophecy. The first, fairly common among evangelicals, is to picture the fulfillment in lurid and garish colors, filled out with a crass literalism, but which fully retains the right to be called “fantastical.” Such fulfillments, were they to happen, would be amazing. But …
His Supreme Whiteness Up on the Mountain
Franke says, at the beginning of his next chapter, that the emphasis on otherness “that is related to the triune nature of God is also a particularly promising aspect of postmodern thought” (p. 91). Howzzat? Well, as it turns out, the triune nature of God appears to provide a firm foundation for leftist bromides about …
Speaking of Cotton Balls . . .
Chapter 9 of Franke’s book is on “Scripture as Manifold Witness. This is where all the problems with this kind of thinking start to converge. Makes me think of the time the apostle Paul and I visited the town of Pomo, just south of Lystra, and after the inhabitants gathered the totalizing import of Paul’s …
With Twice As Many Fireworks
Here is a small hodge podge of discussion starters for when you next divvy up your seminary class into small encounter groups. To head off your curiosity, they are all in praise of Christendom. 1. The radical two kingdom approach within the Reformed world represents a fundamental capitulation to one of the central tenets of …
Turns Out Auburn Avenue is Not Part of the Road to Rome
I’ve not been posting much because I have been neck deep in the doings of the 2010 Auburn Avenue Conference, which this year was on the necessity of the Reformation. It has been a wonderful conference, and I commend all of them to you. The link is to the MP3s. If you rummage around on …
Canon Wired
I don’t mind saying how excited I am by this particular bit of news. Canon Press has been doing some wonderful work behind the scenes for months now, getting ready for this particular roll out — and here we are. The goal has been to figure out how much content we can give away for …
A Conservative What?
Somebody, I think it was William James, once referred to the scramble for the good words. And because words go in and out of fashion, the scramble can get pretty tangled and pretty interesting. People get tired of the liberals, and so everybody wants to be conservative, whatever that means. When they get tired of …
Free Speech That Does Not Fall Under the CO2 Regs
I have a lot to learn around here. Let’s see if I can post a picture.