Scott Clark has posted a form letter, here, for repentant FVers to sign off on. As has been my wont in times past, I would like to repost that letter here, with some editorial comments sprinkled throughout. I have put my comments in brackets and in bold, so that you can tell where it is …
Wealth and Friendship
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 107 “Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor” (Prov. 19: 4). This observation can be taken in two ways, both of them accurate. The first is that wealth creates many “friends.” You win the lottery …
Pious Mutilation
“Islam’s widespread practice of amputating the clitoris and sometimes part or even all of the vulva from the genitalia of Muslim women, affirmed in a hadith by Mohammed himself, most like also traces back to the founder’s deliberate abuse of sex to lure pagan males into his cult” (Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. …
Reformational Dance
“Reformation was less a shopping-list of demands than the choreography for a new dance” (Matheson, p. 9).
When Art Was Real
“The role of artists was not always what it is today. In most cultures, including our own before the new period that began somewhere between 1500 and 1800, artists were primarily craftsmen: art meant making things according to certain rules, the rules of the trade. Arts were accomplished workers who knew how to carve a …
Charismatics Don’t Believe that Prophecy is for Today Either
“More than a few pastors have wondered whether they are being theologically dishonest in saying that the ‘sign gifts’ are no longer operative in the church today. True, the charismatic movement gives us great reason to be suspicious, and it is a pleasure to be prejudiced and bigoted sometimes, especially when Benny Hinn is involved, …
Sixes and Sevens
“If we have attained but to six, and our brethren have attained to seven, let us walk together lovingly to the six. If God shall later reveal the seventh (we will promise to pray and study in the meantime), we shall walk with them also. Why must it now be urged with violence, so as …
Coolness Quotient (CQ)
Finally someone came up with a way to objectively measure this. I was quite pleased. Take the “coolness” test now. HT: David Field
Opening Play of the End Game
Scott Clark, big surprise, has written some more about the federal vision here. But in the course of his litany of ecclesiastical entities that have in various ways rejected the federal vision, he then goes on to say something very important — something that gives the end game away, incidentally. This, I predict, will be …
If Your Eye Be Evil . . .
We are continuing to learn about the sabbath mind as it is exhibited in rest, open-handed generosity, and joy. We are seeing that the sabbath principle is a helm which directs how the entire ship will go. “At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release . . .” (Deuteronomy 15:1-23). In …