Scripture teaches us that unbelievers suppress the truth in unrighteousness. But this language suggests that the operation is not effortless. In order to sin, and in order to persist in it, we have to fight against something that is true about ourselves. We are created in the image of God, and despite the fall into …
Tintagel
Just a couple of quick pictures from the UK. As I have mentioned before, my oldest daughter and family have been at Oxford for the year while Ben has been studying there. And while Ben was with the NSA college tour, the rest of the troops recently went to Tintagel, where Geoffery of Monmouth placed …
Let Us Make a Name
“And it is this solidarity in a name, this unity in separation from God, which was to keep men from ever again being separated on earth. And the sign and symbol of this enterprise is the city they wanted to build together” (Ellul, The Meaning of the City, p. 16).
Go Figure
“Far from being seen as the mortal enemy of the causes that progressive opinion holds so dear, such as sexual freedom or equal rights for women and homosexuals, the Islamic jihad has turned into the armed wing of the British left” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, pp. 117).
An Artistic Clerisy
“Composers, artists, or architects in a compound began to have the instincts of the medieval clergy, much of whose activity was devoted exclusively to separating itself from the mob. For mob, substitute bourgeoisie—and here you have the spirit of avant-gardism in the twentieth century. Once inside a compound, an artist became part of a clerisy, …
Regimented, In Other Words
“In 1 Corinthians 14:40, Paul requires, among other things, that everything be done according to taxis, according to order. He is not just discouraging chandalier-swinging, he is requiring something else, of a different kind, in its place. The word means ‘arrangement; order; a fixed succession observing also a fixed time; orderly array [in a military …
The Sin With No Name
“This is a very shameful distemper. Some men will occasionally confess that they fear other men, and others that they love not other men, or that they condemn others; but no man will acknowledge that he envies others” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 180).
Irresistible Life
We already tend to misunderstand the nature of the relationship between God and His creatures, and so it is unfortunate that we sometimes use language calculated to perpetuate that misunderstanding. One term that is misunderstood in this way, in the view of many, is the irresistible grace of the famous TULIP. But is the misunderstanding …
Look At Me Go
I am the kind of techno maladroit who learns computerish things very slowly. No complaints here, no boasting — just the raw truth. So, for today’s lesson I am going to try to do two new things. Until a short while ago I did not know how to embed a video clip. I still might …
Viking Angst
If you have access to the July/August issue of Touchstone magazine, then you can check out an article that I wrote and which they were kind enough to print. The article is entitled “Weary Anglo Saxon Pagans,” and argues that Beowulf is an outstanding work of Christian evangelism and apologetics.