Once there were two women, next door neighbors, who were on pretty good terms. One was a Christian and the other was not, but still they got on decently enough. This lasted for several years, until one day the Christian woman noticed that her friend was becoming irritable and easily annoyed. This increased over a …
He Quickens the World
Life is a mystery that turns inanimate matter into animate matter. Death is a disruption of this glorious gift, turning animate matter back into inanimate. But life is always God’s default option. He is the God of all life; He is the living God. Death entered this world only through sin and rebellion. When God …
Like Drowning in a Cauldron of Hot Butterscotch
A PCA pastor named Dewey Roberts has recently taken me to task for what I have written about the SJC — or, as he put it, my “campaign of ‘disinformation’ against the PCA and the SJC.” He has thrown down the gauntlet, and I think that when you read how he has phrased things it …
This Too Pleases Him
Many Christians acknowledge the sovereignty of God as a necessary doctrine, but they do not feel that they have to like it, or even talk about it. But when the full biblical vision of this doctrine is given to us, it opens up a world of sweet consolations — and this is good because we …
Merit or Obedience?
Green Baggins makes reference to something I wrote in RINE (p. 174), while talking about the justification of Jesus. The fact that Jesus was justified is seen in this great passage from Timothy. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, …
As Camp as a Row of Tents
During this visit, I was speaking with a pastor here who said, quite accurately, that quite apart from theology (on which we did not differ) women’s ordination in the CoE has been a disaster. We were not differing on the theology of the thing (God says not to do it), but rather agreeing that disobedience …
Just Enough Oxygen for One
I want to begin a short series of comments, keyed off of Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism. As Goldberg demonstrates repeatedly, fascism was a phenomenon of the left, and the ones who were fascinated by it in this country were what we call progressives. Simplifying only just a little bit, the differences between communism and …
A Few Comments for Christians in the UK
Nancy and I have been having a delightful time here in the UK, seeing the sights of course, and visiting with some very insightful Christians here. This is our third visit to this lovely place, and it certainly won’t be the last. Here are some raggety taggety observations on the state of evangelicalism here, along …
The Horse’s Mouth
Steve Wilkins and Duane Garner are now blogging. Good deal.
A Name for Your Next Son
I am just now finishing up one of the most satisfying books I have read in a long time — Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. I will be posting further comments on the book in the future, but for now it should suffice to say that anyone who is in the slightest degree interested in the …