“The purveyors of said doctrine (as in, like, me) believe that we are justified by faith, through faith, unto faith, on faith, under faith, and everything else a squirrel can do to a tree. All faith, all the time, all the way down.”
Boyhood Rambles
Our last five years in Annapolis were in the house at the top of Genesse Street. The house had a spacious side yard, and so of course lots of time was burned through there. But the chief glory of that house’s location was the fact that it was catty corner from “the woods.” The woods …
Always Tiresome
Yeah, LIke That
“There were a number of times where the prophets of God came out of the wilderness in order to uphold the holiness of the law, but they did so using language that struck the pious Jews of their day like paint thinner on a paper cut.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 69-70
Monocovenantal?
“If the critics mean that I hold that there has only been one covenant throughout the history of mankind, then the charge is false. God made one covenant with mankind in Adam, and He made a distinct and separate restorative covenant with mankind in Christ. So that would be two covenants, not one.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 9
Content Cluster Muster [06-29-23]
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No Autonomous Adams
“If Adam had not fallen, would he have been under any obligation to say ‘thank you’ to God? And when Jesus was obeying His Father, even to the point of the cross, was He doing so in faith? If He was doing so in faith, then that means the problem with the first Adam was his unbelief, and not an action that brought about raw demerit.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 8
Minimal Self Awareness
“How else would it be possible for a generation of young people to adopt the worldview and outlook of the ruling elites, all the major corporations, virtually every university on the continent, all the major media outlets, the top brass at the Pentagon, and still have the unvarnished nerve to think of themselves as the resistance.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 67
The Nature of the Prophetic Voice
In the older scovenant, there were two principal aspects of the prophetic word. The first one, and the one that everyone associates with prophecy, is the declaration of what was going to to come ...
When You Write, That’s How We Hear From You
Letter to the Editor: I clicked on "good ones" expecting to see more lovely pictures. There was one of a girl on the floor leaning into her knees. The comments that were included are ...