“Certain good men appeal to me who are distinguished by enormous vehemence and zeal, and a conspicuous absence of brains; brethren who would talk for ever and ever upon nothing — who would stamp and thump the Bible, and get nothing out of it all; earnest, awfully earnest, mountains of labour of the most painful …
How the Modern University Gangs Up on Women
“It is, rather, that these young men know they can force matters further because the rules and institutional safeguards under which young women once upon a time could take protective cover are gone. Let us not kid ourselves: Coed dorms and apartments work to the advantage of male sexual aggression at the expense of female …
Walking On a Different Sunny Side
“They will be on the sunny side wheresoever it is. Cunning heads and corrupt hearts will serve their own turns by all varieties of times. If they were in Diocletian’s time, they could be pagans; if in Constantine’s, Christians; if in Constantius’s, Arians; if in Julian’s, apostates; if in Jovian’s Christians again, and this within …
Parables in Film
A former student and family friend, Ian Kern, has apparently been making himself useful. This project he is associated with shows a great deal of promise — film shorts of the parables of Christ in modern settings, along with application videos. Ian was kind enough to send me a review copy of Volume I, and …
Blessed Assurance
The sermon at Christ Church this last Lord’s Day was on assurance of salvation. Is there a way to have full assurance without presumption? If you are so inclined, you can have a listen here.
Now That I Have Your Attention . . .
Among those observing the unfolding drama surrounding Louisiana Presbytery and Steve Wilkins, there may be more than a few stats-monkeys who are interested in the following. Over the course of this last month, this blog has had 13,590 different visitors, that many different people. When I look at what these people have been interested in, what pages …
Fog-Cutter
I have finally settled into reading Pierced for Our Transgressions, and am happy to report that it is both a necessary book and a fantastic book. It is necessary because the current zeitgeist wants to drift away from penal substitution without talking about it, and it is a fantastic book because it shows how biblical …
Minimum Prerequisites
“Still, a man must not consider that he is called to preach until he has proved that he can speak. God certainly has not created behemoth to fly; and should leviathan have a strong desire to ascend with the lark, it would evidently be an unwise aspiration, since he is not furnished with wings. If …
Whitewash for the Sepulcher
“Sentimentality is the feeble attempt of our lax and liberal culture to claim innocence where there is transgression and perversity, to ignore tragedy in the desperate endeavor to feel comfortable” (Vigen Guroian, Rallying the Really Human Things, p. 61).
The Gift of Body and Blood
In this Supper we partake of bread and wine, representatives of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. This is representative of His sacrifice, of course, but it is also important to note that this rite underscores the fact that Jesus took on a body. He did not do this right …