“Judge Alito, I am afraid that I must come right to the point. If confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, would you allow your personal beliefs and morals to dictate anything with regard to your behavior in office?” “Senator, thank you for this opportunity to address this important question right away. I have had a …
The Voice of Many Waters
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! The Lord reigns! His cloak and clothing are majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength, He has tied His strength on as a belt. The world is founded, And cannot be moved. Your throne, Oh, God, is established of old, You are …
Much Better
Once there was a high school girl who decided that she wanted to become a fighter pilot. She had decided this after watching a movie with her brother, and in the movie it had all worked out perfectly. She knew that it would involve a great deal of hard work, but to be honest, she …
Convenience Store Holiness
We too often want convenience store holiness. We are impatient with our sins in the wrong way, meaning that we want and demand quick fixes for our problems. We want a holiness that will straighten out the pressing problems we have created for ourselves, and we want that holiness shrink-wrapped, hanging on a rack on …
Tentative or Not?
I was pleased that Andrew Sandlin dropped the label postmodernism recently. But it is not enough to just change the label on the bottle. In a recent post, found here, Andrew continues to advance some of the most problematic aspects of the pomo agenda, as it continues to work its way into the Church. Andrew …
Going Around the Calvinist Bend
Check this out. Hilarious. Nowhere near as funny as the emergent one though.
Still A Deadly Mistake
In September of 2004, N.T. Wright gave an address for a symposium on “Men, Women and the Church.” That talk can be found here. The conference was apparently sponsored by an organization (CBE) dedicated to the egalitarian position on women ministering in the Church, and Wright (who supports the ordination of women) was there to …
Year After Year
Gracious Lord and Father, we are most grateful to You for all the kindness You pour out upon us, and we rejoice in the fact that You continue this kindness week after week, and year after year. We thank You now for the food You supply, for our fellowship together, and for the privilege of …
Literature Spiraling Downward
“The rampant literary sleaziness-and make no mistake about it, we are talking about some pretty tacky humans-was almost accidental, a byproduct of institutionalized vacuity and timidity. Writers with nothing to write about invariably start covering themselves up with sex and gore, if only because they realize, almost instinctively, that those two subjects can be described …
Education and Christian Civilization
“I want to argue here that it is not possible to fully provide ‘the paideia of the Lord’ outside the context of a Christian civilization. If this is the case, then Paul’s command to the Ephesians, when they did not live in a Christian culture, just as we do not, means that he saw, at …