“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 118 “Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread” (Prov. 20:13). This kind of warning against laziness is common in Proverbs. And our response is too frequently to nod complacently, …
Watery, Obsolescent, Soft-Left Pap
“The United States has a strain of evangelical Protestantism strong enough to grow in the years ahead. Unfortunately, there is no such surging evangelicalism in Europe. In search of the guiding hand of God, some Europeans will return to Pope Benedict’s church, some will accept Islam, but there will be no takers for the archbishop …
Obvious When You Think About It
“Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns” (George Gilder, Life After Television, p. 48).
That Ringleader Pride
“Though there are many in a riot, the whole blame usually is laid upon the ringleaders. Pride is the ringleader of all riots, divisions, and disturbances among us” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 158).
Book Release Party
For those of you who live in the Moscow area, we are having a book release/book signing party tomorrow night at the Palouse Empire Mall. As the poster above has already informed you, the festivities are from 6 pm to 9 pm, and we are looking forward to a good time. Stacks of the book …
Testimony on the MARS Testimony
The official testimony of the Mid-America Reformed Seminary has a digest of errors. I stated in an earlier post that I could join with them in rejecting about 43 of their list of 45. But the reasons for this vary. In some cases, it was because I agreed with them in rejecting the errors of …
A Review of Leepike Ridge
Okay, let me get a couple things out of the way right at the outset. The first and most obvious is that I am embarking on a review of a novel written by my son, a story that I think is a real premium can of corn. So to speak. And so someone out there …
No Faith in Itself
“That’s why the Church of England and the Episcopal Church and the Congregational Church and the United Church of Canada and many others are sinking beneath the bog of their own relativistic mush, while Islam is the West’s fastest growing religion. There’s no market for a faith that has no faith in itself” (Mark Steyn, …
Big Brother”s Eyeball
“Yet television is at its heart a totalitarian medium. Because television signals originate at a single station and are sent top-down to the masses, tyrants everywhere push TV sets onto their people” (George Gilder, Life After Television, p. 46).
Not Tepid Water
“The point is to fill the day with godly celebration, rest, feasting. Sabbath keeping is the best wine, not tepid water. Observed the right way, the children in the home should grow up longing for the Lord’s Day to come. Remember that in obeying this commandment, we must not turn aside either to the right …