“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 96 “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right” (Prov. 16:8). The book of Proverbs frequently makes comparative statements like this one. Everyone who believes that there is such a thing as good knows that this is …
More a Sign of Desperation Than Mastery and Control
“In the blink of a tease you are enticed to stay tuned with promises of exclusive stories and tape, good-looking anchors, helicopters, team coverage, hidden cameras, uniform blazers, and even, yes, better journalism. It is all designed to stop you from using the remote-control button to switch channels. But the teasing doesn’t stop there. During …
Silence Can Err Also
“We also have to tell childre n the history of their people. We must be careful here because we do not have the protections of inspiration. But silence does not really help because we do not have the protection of inspired silence either. We must speak or not speak as fallible persons, and the best …
Far More, Actually
“The whole modern dogma of the absolute separation between great poetry and intelligence is one of the consequences of our blindness to the role of mimetic desire and victimage in great literature. The ultimate implications of Julius Caesar seem almost too dangerous to pursue. Our own rationality cannot teach the founding role of mimetic victimage …
No Debate
Some weeks ago, after I finished reading Guy Waters’ book on the Federal Vision, I contacted him, and offered to work with him to set up some kind of discussion/debate between the two of us. I was willing to fly to Jackson and have our interaction there. Our phone conversations were very cordial, but he …
Whompff!
Want to live real cozy-like? Has the pope apologized or not? If he has, it was quite a feat — hard to apologize to mobs of people making your point more strongly than you ever did. One of the funnier commercials I have seen. I wonder if it ever actually ran anywhere.
Sihon and Og
As we continue through the book of Deuteronomy, it is best not to tire of hearing about giants too quickly. God was giving the land of the giants to the children of God. “Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, …
The Meal Is Before You
We are God’s covenant people, and we are seated with our Lord in this covenant meal. Now covenants are, at bottom, relationships. Covenants are not doctrinal abstractions. Covenant is not a mere word that we use to distinguish ourselves from other denominational traditions. Covenants are structured in the very way that God created the world, …
No Implied Criticism
The new command is that we love one another. Love in the Scriptures is defined as the giving of one’s self through immediate or indirect sacrifice. Paul tells the Thessalonians that they did not need instruction on this point – they were known for their love to all the brethren who were in the region …
Worship In the Temple of High Brow
“Until quite modern times—I think, until the time of the Romantics—nobody ever suggested that literature and the arts were an end in themselves. They ‘belonged to the ornamental part of life’, they provided ‘innocent diversion’; or else they ‘refined our manners’ or ‘incited us to virtue’ or glorified the gods. The great music had been …