“However you examine it, the Protestant Reformation in the English-speaking world was the location, the context, and the setting, of a literary supernova.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 125
Like a Pair of Old Jeans
Introduction: Many times those who are listening to the debates over hyper-preterism concentrate too much on the debaters and what they are saying, when they really ought to take a look at the universe ...
Timothy and Epaphroditus
Philippians (9): Sermon Video Introduction: The Christian faith is by no means a solitary business. The grace of regeneration extends to each individual, but because this grace is brought ...
Enough to Take the Breath Away
“Why . . . just the other day I was listening in my pick-up truck to a tape by a gentleman named Dr. Scott Clark, and he said that we Federal Vision types did not believe that Jesus lived a life of perfect, sinless obedience! I was so flummoxed by this that I pulled my truck over to the side of the road, and had to lay myself down on the highway with my feet on the bumper just to get the blood back into my head. Then when the state patrolman asked me what I thought I was doing, I explained it to him, and he couldn’t believe it either. Actually, I made this last little bit up—just a little fib—but that’s okay. We’re all under grace.”
A Rock Pile of Rules
“What is commonly caricatured as the ‘puritanical’ mentality is actually a mentality that can be found in the church of all ages. You can find this mindset in some of the early fathers, you can find it with Syrian ascetics, you can find it in medieval monasteries, and you can find it (after the first generation) among the Puritans. This religious type of person translates every serious call to holiness into terms it can understand, which is that of being introspective, stuffy, priggish, thin-lipped, censorious, prim, prudish, and more. Not only does it translate every serious call to holiness into this legalistic straitjacket, but it is attracted to every serious call to holiness—with the intention of burying it under a rock pile of rules.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 121
Paul and Tamar
We have all had the experience of buying an appliance that we thought we understood, but then when we couldn’t get to work, we found that we had to finally, somewhat sheepishly, resort to the manual. ...
The True Challenge
Maybe I Need to Enunciate
“He rejects the idea that we ‘get in’ by grace, and ‘stay in’ by works. As do I, with enthusiasm. We get in by grace, we remain in by grace, we walk by grace, we talk by grace, we persevere by grace, we eat dinner by grace, we go to church by grace. We get in by grace. We stay in by grace. We finish by grace. Sola gratia. Tota gratia. Tota et sola gratia. Grace, grace, grace. But you know me. Mr. Ambiguous.”
Content Cluster Muster [07-13-23]
Into the West…: Christopher Tolkien reading the end of LOTR. pic.twitter.com/J5C0tbzgF9— The Wonder of Tolkien (@TolkienWonder) July 10, 2023 Even Dragons Shall Praise Him: Quite Right: Featured Product: A Review of Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction:Rodney Clapp did us all the favor of viewing certain American challenges through the lens of American country …
A True Opportunity at Canon+
Fair warning, right at the front end here. I am going to get to a pitch in the last paragraph, so if you don’t like pitches, then I suggest a penultimate stopping point. But first I want to tell you a few things about the reason for the pitch. The last several years have been …