“Men who are weak and can see but a little way into things must take heed they censure not others who know how to manage business better than themselves” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 139).
Sound Doctrine (1 Tim. 1:1-11)
Introduction: As we introduce this first letter in what are called the pastoral epistles, it is important to contextualize it. Reconstructing the chronology of the New Testament, we may conclude that Paul was probably imprisoned in Rome twice. The first is found at the end of the book of Acts, after which he was released, …
Sam Harris Events
Gary DeMar will be interviewing me a couple times today concerned the release of my book Letter from a Christian Citizen. I am responding to Sam Harris’ book (Letter to a Christian Nation) promoting a militant form of atheism. You can listen to one or the other or both interviews on the Internet. For the …
Geronimo!
The next chapter, “Reflections on Auburn Theology,” is by T. David Gordon, and I would like to return a compliment in the same words he uses. My father used to quote this poem when I was a kid, and Gordon applies it to us. I, not surprisingly, think that it is more apropos when swiveled …
Classified Among the Vertebrates
My response to Sam Harris’ book Letter to a Christian Nation has now been released. Information on ordering it can be found here. This response of mine is entitled Letter from a Christian Citizen, and we are really excited about it. When I have the press release for the book, I will post it here. …
Nancy Wilson’s New Blog
I am very pleased to announce that my wife, Nancy Wilson, has started a blog called Femina, which can be found here. The look of the blog will change over time (probably in the very near future), but she is getting started now with a standard template. She has a lot of material that she …
And the Winner Is . . .
You should recall that some time ago, I invited contributions to a federal vision haiku contest. Rather than apologize for my tardiness in announcing the winners, let me just say that we all know that time is one of the tests of a classic. First prize is 15 clams off any purchase at Canon Press, …
Advanced Stages of Endustment
I don’t have a lot to say about the next chapter of By Faith Alone, other than that I enjoyed it. It was written by C. Fitzsimmons Allison, who also wrote a very good book that I also enjoyed entitled The Cruelty of Heresy. Allison is the retired Episcopal bishop of South Carolina, and so …
Cradle of Liberty
American Christians are very active participants in the American character, for both good and ill. There is no real need to rehearse the blessings which come from this because we are all probably more aware of our virtues than we need to be. But one of the problems we have is the tendency to moralize …
Ecochondriacs
“By the end of this century, the demographically doomed Italians and Spaniards will be so few in number there won’t be enough Continental environmentalists left to man the local Greenpeace office. The Belgian climate-change lobbyist will be on the endangered species list with the Himalayan snow leopard. And, from an American point of view, the …
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