More fun deconstructing the epistemofadists. HT: the Pyro guys And I saw this some time ago, and thought it was one of the funnier commercials I had seen. I think that this was before I knew how to embed video clips here. In case that it so, here it is again. HT to Mark Horne …
I Love Analogies
Yes, it is true. I do love analogies. Someone who is aware of this fact suggested a hot one to Lane over at Greenbaggins. The Louisiana Presbytery’s exoneration of Steve Wilkins is like the Arizona Republican party exonerating John McCain. In response, someone in the comments asked why we shouldn’t just accept the decision of …
See You Next Year
The photos for Trinity Fest 07 are now on-line, and you can see them all here. I have included a few of them here, just to whet the appetite. The first is of our speakers, who all got the brown khaki memo. Then there is a photo of one of the talks, followed by some …
Two Ways of Justification
The lines of descent from Sarah and Hagar are fluid. In other words, physical sons of Sarah can become Ishmaelites through unbelief. Physical sons of Hagar can come in faith to Christ and be adopted into Israel. That which God uses to determine which way it goes is faith which He imparts as a sovereign …
Some Allies
“The Western press has lamentably failed to peer inside the black box of the U.S.-Saudi relationship. Short of an extraordinary humiliation, the Washingtonian policymakers will continue to insist that they ‘need’ Saudi Arabia even more than they ‘need’ Pakistan” (Serge Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, pp. 249).
Different Costumes, Same Trick
“In [Sinead] O’Connor, this shtick is touted as a pure product of her brooding Irish soul. In Nirvana, it is praised as a distillation of Seattle despair. In fact, it is a cliché of expressionist theater, passed down through performance art (via Yoko Ono) to punk” (Martha Bayles, Hole in our Soul, p. 318).
Where Is This Going to Land Us?
“It is interesting that our Lord compared the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees to leaven. Leaven, or yeast, is not dormant. Leaven in a loaf of bread grows and works through the loaf until it pervades the whole. False teaching works in the same way. This means that an elder must be able to …
The Real Battle
One of the central sins of the Pharisees is that they had no sense of proportion. They did not know what sanctified what — the gold the altar or the altar the gold? They did not know the difference between a beam in the eye or a mote in the eye. They did not think …
Just For Fun . . .
Here is the cover that went to the printers yesterday. You don’t need a secret decoder ring, but it might help.
All Spiritual Wisdom
The meaning of the two sons in this passage is absolutely basic to all spiritual wisdom. If we listen to carnal whispers will get this all tangled up—and we must not. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two …