We have learned that those who are under the law are under a curse. This is because being under the law does not mean that one keeps the law; rather, it means that one does not keep it, and is therefore under condemnation. How can sinful men be delivered from this state of condemnation? And …
The Differences Between Riches and Wealth
“According to the World Bank, the total exports of the Arab countries (other than fossil fuels) amount to less than those of Finland, a country of 5 million inhabitants. There are at least 50 Arabs to each Finn” (Serge Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, p. 206).
Pseudo-Satanism in the Hedge Row
“In their ongoing effort to be naughtier than the Beatles, the Rolling Stones began making satanic allusions in 1967 . . . Jimmy Page, the lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin, was a Crowley fan even before he accepted the Lucifer Rising job . . . By this route Satanism became heavy metal’s semiofficial religion, observed …
The Shield of Truth Protecting a Lie
“They cry out much of the truth, and they contend for the truth, but the Holy Ghost says they are destitute of the truth” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 217).
Lord of Tomorrow Morning
Convocation Remarks 2007 Fleetwood Mac exhorted us all plainly. “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.” Well, okay. And politicians consistently tell us that they want to be elected so that they can build a bridge to the future—as though we could go anywhere else, whether we build that bridge or not. But behind these bromides is …
Put Law and Gospel into a Story
I want to take a brief point I made in the comments section over at Greenbaggins and amplify it. The FV treatment of law and gospel creates the question of how “the law” relates to us as Christians in the course of our Christian lives. And so of course we hold that the law convicts …
Our Little Reformed Contretemps
Thanks to Randy Booth, who supplied me with some interesting quotes on general and special election from Calvin. Here, then, a twofold class of sons presents itself to us, in the Church; for since the whole body of the people is gathered together into the fold of God, by one and the same voice, all …
Abraham and the Gospel
We come now to the glorious example of Abraham, and the apostle Paul draws much gold out of the mines of Genesis. We will be occupied with this gold for much of the remainder of the third chapter of Galatians. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye …
Larceny 101
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 123 “Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good” (Prov. 20:23). Scripture makes this point in a number of different places, and it would be good for us to note that the sinful …
When Fundamentalists Read the Text More Clearly
“The revival of the model of early Islam in a modern form absolutely mandates the reaffirmation of uncompromising animosity to non-believers and the return to violence as a means of attaining political ends. Islamic terrorism, far from being an aberration, became inseparable from modern-day jihad. It is legitimized by it, and it is its defining …