You are Americans, most of you, and trying to speak to you about wealth is like addressing a congregation of fish on the nature of water. When we consider how the vast majority of the human race has lived up to this generation, and indeed, how most of the world still lives today, your wealth …
Direct and Indirect
We have been speaking a great deal about money, wealth, Mammon, gold. But as we come to the Lord’s Table again, we should be mindful of one other thing concerning gold. You can’t eat it. God has given us a covenant we can drink. He has given us a salvation we can eat. And it …
Bells On His Jacket
Scott Clark appears to be auguring in. First, he complains about someone on the URC list who received a request from China to have the Federal Vision statement translated into Chinese. Clark was displeased with the fellow on the list who then arranged for it. “. . . a post from China asking for a …
Sundry Offenses Against Democracy
Things have been calm for quite some while, and so I haven’t had to post under this topic for that same some while. But several things have happened of late, and so I should bring you all up to speed. Our Trinity Fest starts on Monday, and there was an organized protest against Trinity Fest …
Why God Gave Some Men Fingers
This is a good business. HT: Bayly Blog
Westminster 28.6
Greenbaggins attempts to answer my challenges on Westminster 28.6 here. Before engaging with that response, let me say express some disappointment that Lane also says that this will be his “final statement on it.” When it comes to the efficacy of baptism, I get to have the last word. The problem with this is that …
And Wilson, Almost Suitably Abashed, Responds
When my friend John Armstrong suggested that this publication run a critical review of my book A Serrated Edge, and give me an opportunity to respond to that review, I agreed happily. I really do believe we ought to talk more about this stuff. Then when the package with the review arrived and I opened …
John Frame Reviews “A Serrated Edge”
Review of Douglas Wilson, A Serrated Edge [1] John M. Frame Just so everyone will know where I’m coming from, I should say that I am a longtime fan of both satire and Doug Wilson. The former came into my life much earlier than the latter. I first caught the writing bug doing satirical pieces …
Stand By for a Cordial Discussion
A number of months ago, John Armstrong asked me if I would mind writing a response to a review of A Serrated Edge in one of his publications, and I agreed happily. After they published it, we would then do the same. Unfortunately, they were providentially hindered from publishing the exchange and so the other …
Preparing for the Crisis That Wasn’t
Y2K has not always been on everyone’s lips, but it is now. For years, those who had taken the responsibility of warning others were pretty lonely people. Now that we have very little time left, we have nearly universal awareness . . . and mounting consternation. In the midst of this, many pastors are wondering …