In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, welcome. In the authority and kindness of the Lord Jesus, welcome. In the fellowship and communion of the saints, welcome. We have gathered to rejoice in the establishment of a new covenant family, bound in the vows of matrimony. Sam and Jamie have already given …
Dah Vinchee!
If you want some resources on the Dah Vinchee foolishness, check out Mark Roberts. HT: Hugh Hewitt Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. And, for those who live in this area (and if you don’t, you should), my daughter has a floral shop. And if you don’t have a mother in the Moscow area, adopt one! Tim …
You Have Heard It Said . . .
This morning at our men’s prayer meeting, I mentioned a story I had recently read (somewhere) about N.T. Wright and death-beds. I didn’t buy the story, but it came up somehow and we were talking about it. One of the men there tracked this down, and because I read the story somewhere in email or …
Polygamy and Such
An odd skirmish has broken out, and you can note a bit of it at Dale Courtney’s blog here. In the past, we (Dale included) have advanced the argument that to legalize homosexual marriage is necessarily to open the door to polygamous marriage. This used to be laughed at by authorized solons and pundits, but …
A Long Obedience
NSA Commencement 2006 Last Wednesday night, we had our ninth commencement for New St. Andrews College. One of the features of the evening was that we honored my father, Jim Wilson, for the impact he has had throughout the course of his long and fruitful life. Among some others, I was asked to make some …
Saluting the Uniform
Tim Enloe and I are continuing our conversation. Not much of an exciting conversation, because I agree with what he has posted here. But he does raise a question worth considering. “Pastor Wilson has said in his earlier post that the solution to abusive lay discussions is not a simple gag order. I agree, and …
More for You, Less for Me
“Restrictions on speech are justified by the assertion of a compelling need to promote freedom for some by limiting freedom for others. To the code writers, as to Marcuse, freedom is a zero-sum game” (The Shadow University, p. 83).
Viva Las Worship
“I have heard soloists in church working the crowd like a lounge singer, striding into the audience with a Las Vegas patter, crooning into the mike, costumed for a screen test.” [Gene Veith, State of the Arts (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1991), pp. 202]
Three Significant Columns
“This democratic impulse exploded into full revolt near the beginning of the nineteenth century, and three significant columns began to march on the older established order of Christendom. The political revolution was accomplished in the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1829. The ecclesiastical revolution was ushered in during the Second Great Awakening, …
The Pentagon Finds Out About the Serrated Edge
Now here’s something interesting. Some of the good guys have finally figured out a basic feature of warfare. This would include the war on terrorism. You can find out more about the power of ridicule in war here. And you can see some tentative application here. Joel Belz has a solid take on self-criticism for …