Another techie announcement, if you don’t mind. We believe the posting problems that some of you have encountered are now fixed. Many thanks to those who wrote in to let us know that they were having trouble, and many thanks to Keith, who fixed it. You are now invited to have a try and see …
Get Your Dibbies In
I am pleased to note that the online debate that Christopher Hitchens and I had over at Christianity Today is now going to appear as a small book. Many thanks to CT for sponsoring that thing in the first place, and to Canon Press for the fine work they have been doing in putting this …
Ninth Commandment Issues
Okay, please bear with me for a moment — I have a string of quotations, and with some answers and responses from me interspersed. First, from his blog, Lane asks me this question: “I know, I know, this post comes from the self-proclaimed Fully Documented Anonymous Attack Blog, or FDAAB for short. You all will …
Father Hunger
This year our Christ Church ministerial conference is going to be in the Houston area. We will continue to have it in Moscow normally, but this year we moved it to accommodate the CREC Council/Presbyteries that will be meeting that same week in Texas. The topic — Father Hunger — is one that we believe …
Concluded Under Sin
In our continued study of hamartia, we find that Christ gave himself for our sins (Gal. 1:4). Paul later asks if Christ is a minister of sin just because we are found to be sinners in seeking to be justified by Christ (2:17). No, God’s purpose through the law (as a forerunner to the gospel) …
Preaching in the Graveyard
“Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 314).
Some Transactions Are Zero Sum
“But only redistributive processes are zero-sum games; protective tariffs, mortgage subsidies, and armed robberies all transfer wealth forcibly from one person to another. Economic transactions are voluntary exchanges, which means that both parties perceive themselves as benefiting. A given economic transaction is zero-sum only if one party has miscalculated or been deceived” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols …
Scotch, Hotch, and Potch
Lane has taken a moment to answer my question here, and so I guess it is now my turn to respond. This is the way the controversy is framed by our opponents, and there are some basic structural problems with it. They say that if you want to affirm the gospel in the way our …
Real Ambition
INTRODUCTION: So we have considered desire, envy, and competition, and we now come to ambition. To address the subject rightly, we have to recall what we learned thus far. There is a certain kind of desire that every human being has to deal with, and this is a desire that tends to veer toward envy. …
The Great Transaction
The two times the word hamartia appears in 2 Corinthians it is in that great passage talking about the great transaction that occurred on the cross. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (5:21). Christ knew no …