“Be masters of your Bibles, brethren . . . When grace abounds, learning will not puff you up, or injure your simplicity in the gospel. Serve God with such education as you have, and thank Him for blowing through you if you are a ram’s horn, but if there be a possibility of your becoming …
Seduced by Cool
“Christians are willing to part with large amounts of case for access to Christian cool . . . There’s nothing wrong with Christian music being integrated into the global market. God is glorified by excellence in our craftsmanship. Lots of top-quality Christian music is produced by multinational corporations will be present in heaven. Still, the …
No Countermeasures
When we gather to worship the Lord, when the call to worship is uttered, the Holy Spirit gathers us up, and ushers us all into the heavenly places where we then worship God in the name of Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit. We have not come to a mountain that can be …
Speaking for Idaho, We Don’t Mind
Well, it looks as though the state of California has, for all intents and purposes, outlawed homeschooling. I was reading the comments for a post on this over at Justin Taylor’s blog, and it appears that some commenters want to deny the obvious — saying, for example, that this only disallows homeschooling when the parents …
Group Water Boarding
Some great photos (that don’t need a caption) can be found over at Dale’s blog. Here’s one of them.
Supreme Virtue Cheating
Hillary Clinton has come out in opposition to “do-overs” in Michigan and Florida. At the same time, she now wants the first-time voting in those states to count. This, even though she and the other candidates had agreed not to compete in those states (because they had violated DNC rules by moving their primaries to …
What Ritual Can Do
Baptism in water can be a complicated subject—and yet the author of Hebrews treats it as one of the Christian “basics.” This should make us wary because the evangelical Christian world doesn’t have this sorted out yet, and yet it should also make us eager to sort it out—to grow up into maturity as our …
Kittens and Cobras
When something is unruly it is untamed, uncowed, undisciplined. The New Testament uses this word (akataschetos) for the tongue, which no one can tame — an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. In case we let down our guard, we have to remember that this creature, the tongue, is full of deadly poison. When we …
A Minister’s Family
“We ought to be such husbands that every husband in the parish may safely be such as we are. Is it so? We ought to be the best of fathers. Alas! some ministers, to my knowledge, are far from this, for as to their families, they have kept the vineyards of others, but their own …
Cool Christianity: Oxymoron #72
“Cool Christianity indulges in a similar feedback loop. Cool Christianity projects a Christian variant of cool that is identical to—but for the most part flies under the radar of—cool’s cultural centers. Accordingly, most cool Christianity is an internal performance for our own consumption. We create it to feel better about ourselves” (Paul Grant, Blessed Are …