Chapter Two, called “Nylon Strap and Winch,” is now available to the reading public. Click on the picture, or here.
What We Shall Need Forever
“To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need …
Without the Law
We learn some interesting things about Paul’s use of the law from his use of the word anoma. In 1 Cor. 9:21, he uses it four times — “To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that …
Painted Fire
“His preaching is like a painted fire, no one is either cheered or alarmed by it” (Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, p. 207).
Catechized by Fairy Tales
“Good magic and bad magic in truthful stories correspond to true religion and false religion in our real world . . . True religion is about surrender, while false religion is about control” (Michael D. O’Brian, A Landscape With Dragons, p. 29).
A Corker from Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens has written a corker about the Archbishop of C, a corker which I would commend to you here. I am constantly astounding by those who think that fruit can mysteriously continue to show up in crates every autumn after we have chopped down the tree in June. As in C.S. Lewis’ famous observation …
Teeny Idols
There are two kinds of loyalty, one good and one bad. If you are fiercely loyal to your family, to your nation, to your church, or doctrinal traditions, and that loyalty results in you maintaining (emotionally, if not actually) that the object of your loyalty could never do wrong, or be in the wrong, then …
Providence and Covenant
We live in community, which means in part that we feed one another. We live in community under God, which means that we are dependent upon God—He feeds us. If He did not give the rain, if He did not make the crops grow, we would all of us starve. We want a strong doctrine …
All Three of the Flying Bambino Brothers
This is archived under “Book Review” but it is not really a book review proper. It is more of a statement. Last April I finished reading a short book by David Bentley Hart called The Doors of the Sea, a theological reaction to the Asian tsunami. In my short book log review, I just said …
Why the Horse Isn’t Dead
I have mentioned before the atheism jag that I have been on, and even if I hadn’t mentioned it, it would have been obvious. Just last week I posted covers of some of the new titles coming out. One thought that has occurred to me is that a number of Christians may be thinking, “For …