“Does he seriously hope to pass off this rhapsody on meat and starch as a treatise on cooking? Does he actually think that anyone who has the least notion of what is involved in a balanced diet would condescend to settle down in the waistland of gravy and spaetzle he praises so extravagantly? Well, believe …
Stupid Wrangles Sown
Anopheles means unprofitable. It is used twice in the New Testament, both times in a moral sense. The first instance is this: “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit. 3:9). Stupid wrangles sown produce a harvest to match. The second usage does …
Wisdom Accumulates
“A certain minister may quickly compose a sermon, but you must remember that this is the result of the labour of many years. Even he who, according to common parlance, speaks quite extemporaneously, does not really do so; he delivers what he has in previous years stored up. The mill is full of corn, and, …
A Triumph of Glutinosity
“It is in strudel dough that the glutinous properties of flour enter the new Jerusalem in a triumph of elasticity” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 118).
Wild Disobedience
The word anupotaktos is used four times and is translated in various ways. One is as disobedient, referring to a kind of behavior Paul tells that with one of the uses of the law (that of civil restraint), it was not intended for righteous men (who are already self-governed). The law was intended for the …
Far Better Actually
“Better that Demas should forsake us, than that he should abide with us, and import the world into the church” (Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, p. 295).
Sounds, Sights, and Usually Some Skin
“Images have a way of evoking an emotional response. Pictures have a way of pushing rational discourse—linear logic—into the background. The chief aim of television is to sell products and entertain audiences. Television seeks emotional gratification. As a visual medium, television programming is designed to be amusing. Substance gives way to sounds and sights. Hard …
Oxymoronic Adultery
“No double standard exists in God’s law. If a woman were an adulteress she could be executed for it, and if a man were an adulterer he could be executed for it. So the double standard on the part of Christ’s adversaries here is evident. They catch a woman committing adultery all by herself, and …
Marshmallow Clouds, Puffy Rainbows, and Unicorns
Well, the Obaminator has chosen Joe Biden to be his running mate and, as I see it from here, the wheels continue to come off the Obama campaign. The once robust coalition of marshmallow clouds, puffy rainbows, and unicorns is starting wear a little thin. At least around here. I continue to believe that the …
Those Darn Back Rubs
Chapter Seven introduces Johnny Quinn, one of Camel Creek’s youth ministers, and his girl friend Brandy. We are entering our seventh week of chapter installments, and I hope that all 1,902 unique visitors to the Evangellyfish web site have gotten their money’s worth.