[Elizabeth I] “released their creative power. She was a Queen, not a King, and all that was left of medieval chivalry idealized her into an incarnation of England, a militant heroine inseparable in imagination from the brave, young new nation who was saving herself from those proud old foes, the Papacy, Spain, and France, that …
Lining Up with the Premises
“By the same token, what is called Islam but is not Koran-based is pseudo-Islam. Hence violent Christianity is pseudo-Christianity, but oppositely—due to the violent nature of the Koran—moderate Islam is pseudo-Islam” (Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. 138).
Now You’re Talking
“I wish we did not have to fritter away on frivolous things, like lectures and literature, the time we might have given to serious, solid and constructive work like cutting out cardboard figures and pasting coloured tinsel upon them” (G.K. Chesterton as quoted in Thomas Peters, The Christian Imagination, p. 10).
Dishonesty Always Wants More Scope
“This high view of preaching has consequences. Christians are people of the Word, and as a result they are people of words. They are people of the enscripturated Word, and the preached word. We love the Truth, and this is why we must necessarily love truths. The flip side of this is that when a …
Why Some Won’t Learn Anything New
“Many have hidden their eyes from those truths that would have kept them from conformity because they foresaw what said consequences would follow, if their consciences should not suffer them to conform” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 94).
A Second Battle of Tours (4)
Introduction: There is no way to talk about the growing threat posed by Islam without addressing the topic of Israel and the Jews. And this highlights an important feature of this series of messages. Although the Bible says nothing about Mohammed or Islam, it says a great deal about many of the issues that Islam …
Interesting
In his talk on Andrew Fuller at the 2007 Desiring God pastors’ conference, John Piper had this to say. I just tuned into the debate between R. Scott Clark and Doug Wilson over at Scott’s blog, Heidelblog, and there were elements of it that relate directly to Fuller’s response to Sandemanianism (though no one there …
Scienti-Hooey
Mark Steyn calls them ecochondriacs — people who are convinced of global warming and who are wailing on their guitars and beating their statist drums to a tune that Foreigner made popular way back in the day. URGENT. Unless we all take action NOW, we are all going to DIE, and it won’t FUNNY THEN. …
A PBS Whitewash
“With that, we can see that ‘Islam: Empire of Faith’ [a PBS special] totally covers up the truth about Mohammed—that he was a marauder, stealing other people’s property, having one innocent after another assassinated, ordering several hundred Jewish men beheaded, condemning captive women to spend their entire lives serving him and his followers as sex …
Recovering Its Acids and Spices
“The Reformers not only revered their biblical heritage, but recovered its energies, its acids, its spices, its ‘red wine and cheese’, the sting and zing of the Magnificat. We should therefore be chary of assuming that a more verbal spirituality, which Protestantism undoubtedly was, was necessarily more bookish or intellectual. It commuted between the lofty …