“[W]e cannot be ignorant that there is a generation of men who are vexed when they hear how near their brethren come to them by way of agreement. It serves more to their advantage to have the distance wide. They would keep open the wounds, yea, widen them” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 61).
Why Don’t You Hear?
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! How long are You going to forget me? You are eternal; Is Your forgetfulness the same? How long do You intend to hide Your face? How long will I have to counsel myself? Communing with nothing but my own sorrow? How long …
Quite Cozy in the Basement
One day the apostles and prophets backed their concrete truck up to the building lot, and they poured a marvelous foundation. Jesus Himself came and placed the cornerstone, and when they all had left, the foundation cured, and was soon ready for building. The evangelists were capable loggers, sawmill operators, and truckers. They soon brought …
Obedience to Glory
St. Paul tells us that Jesus did not consider His equality with God as something to be grasped, but rather took the form of a servant. And, having done that, He was obedient to the point of death, to the point of the cross. We need to see here, and remember, and meditate on the …
And It Figures
One of the most obvious characteristics of our relativistic, postmodern times is a schizophrenic approach to different kinds of authority. The radical individualism pioneered by modernity, and carried on by its sham-alternative, postmodernity, is an individualism that reacts violently to all forms of godly authority, and capitulates immediately in the face of brow-beated bluster. Relativism …
A Black and Tan Conversation
For anyone who is interested, I will be discussing Black and Tan with anyone who shows up in the Canon Press cyber cafe on Thursday, February 8th. The time will be 7:30-8:30 pm PST (10:30-11:30 EST). Please realize that you will have to be a registered member of theCafe before February 8th in order to …
Covenant Radio
I was interviewed yesterday by Covenant Radio on the subject of, you guessed it, the federal vision. You can take a listen here.
The Duty to Fight the Infidel
“In fact, there are at least 109 identifiable war verses in the Koran. One out of every 55 verses in the Koran is a war verse” (Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. 28).
Iconopoaic Puritanism
“We are quite rightly impressed by the iconoclastic dimensions of the Reformation, the pruning of the liturgies and the decimation of the saints’ days, the removal of statues, paintings and even stained glass from the churches. But such iconoclasm may be eclipsed by what we can call the iconopoaic energies of the Reformation, its creativity …
When Experts Aren’t
“I will not say that a good story for children could never be written by someone in the Ministry of Education, for all things are possible. But I should lay very long odds against it” (C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds, p. 34).