Yesterday we had a stimulating discussion at the NSA graduate forum, and I was going to take a moment here to let some of my afterthoughts spill over. We were discussing whether the left wing/right wing distinction is inherently an idolatrous one. Anyone who has followed this blog for very long knows that there is …
More on Moody Radio
Yesterday’s discussion on Moody radio can be found here. Monday’s discussion was on the blessing that Christianity has been for the realm of politics. Tuesday’s discussion was on the blessing that Christianity has been to the Academy. The discussion starts around minute 47.
A Temporizing Baa-Lamb
Over at Pulpit Magazine, Nathan Busenitz has given us an interesting write-up on an appearance of Mark Driscoll at the upcoming Desiring God conference. The article begins with recapping a disagreement that John Piper and I had during the Q&A at a Ligonier conference eight years ago. John was at that time concerned for those …
Glory and Business
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 152 “It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory” (Prov. 25:27). Americans generally tolerate their politicians, and the occasional military hero receives great glory. Sports heroes also come in …
Just Plain Eat
“Against all the propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. First of all, it is better for your soul. Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, …
The Seared Conscience
The word apalgeo is used only once in the New Testament, and it means to be past feeling. Paul uses the word to describe what happens to the consciences who walk in this world without God — “who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye …
Ah, for a Vertebrate Ministry!
“This suspicion is born of want of fidelity in ministers. I saw, just now, outside the shop of a marine-store dealer, a placard which runs thus: ‘Fifty tons of bones wanted.’ ‘Yes,’ I said to myself, ‘mostly backbones.’ Fifty tons of them! I could indicate a place where they could take fifty tons, and not …
The Great Eye Machines
“The visual element of romanticism is highly significant because it would later find its way into the great eye machines of the twentieth century—cinema and television. It would also lay the foundation for existentialism, the forerunner of postmodernism” (Arthur Hunt, The Vanishing Word, p. 120).
Echoed Disrespect
“The disrespect that children have for their fathers in this area [courtship] is really just an echo of the disrespect that fathers have of their own office” (Her Hand in Marriage, pp. 31-32).
And Another Thing . . .
I mentioned a week or two ago that I was interviewed for the Moody radio network with reference to the debate book with Christopher Hitchens. We recorded some short segments to be aired over the course of the week. I am being interviewed by Greg Wheatley on Prime Time America. The first installment (on politics) …