“Suppose someone rejects the teaching of the Bible on God’s omniscience, but not because of any grammatical or exegetical reason. Suppose he rejects it because it contradicts something that his ‘reason’ insists on keeping. Who then is his Lord? Reason, or Christ? And who is the servant? Reason, or Christ? And to press it back …
Northern Runs
I enlisted in the Navy while I was still in high school, but didn’t have to go in until the fall after graduation. There was nothing thought-through in this choice of service. I had grown up in Annapolis, my father was an Annapolis grad, and the thought of doing something other than joining the Navy …
Talk, Talk or Work, Work?
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 87 “In all labour there is is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury” (Prov. 14:23). Talking about work is all right as preparation for work, but it is no substitute for work. Work is as …
The Fool Is a Thoroughbred
A people are known by their proverbs — what they value and what they do not, where they profess to find wisdom and where they do not. Our modern culture hates objectivity — countless propaganda pieces tell us that we must find the truth within ourselves, we must be true to ourselves, we must always …
Can Reason Run With Horses?
“The use of the phrase ‘if words have meaning’ is very important here. It is ironic that people can hold reason in very high esteem adn say that it is competent to investigate the depths of the wisdom and knowledge of God, as well as the nature of time and eternity, and yet when it …
Inane Classicism
“During the sixties, a number of important cultural transactions took place. The classical musical tradition (that is, new music being composed in the tradition of Beethoven and Mozart) finally collapsed under the weight of its own inanity. The fact that John Cage and Karl Heinz Stockhausen were at all taken seriously was a sign that …
The Liberty of God
There is certainly no biblical problem with preaching the doctrine of God’s sovereignty. At the same time, there are other situations where it is wise to present the facts of the case as dispassionately as we are able to. God’s saints must see this issue as it really is — the clear, objective teaching of …
Musical Four-wheeling
“Music, quite simply, has to go somewhere. It is organized in time. If there is no reason why one note should follow another, there is no way of organizing that time in any coherent fashion. Atonality meant a freedom analogous to taking down all signs and abolishing all roads.” [E. Michael Jones, Dionysos Rising (San …
The Last Yellow Dog
“Both camps [Calvinists and Arminians] hold to the orthodox doctrine of God that maintains that God knows the end from the beginning. Before the foundation of the world, God saw the last yellow dog ever to walk down some street at the end of the world, and before eternal times God knew the number of …
The Legalist Just Closes Doors
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Let me right now forever know Your Word is firm on high, Your faithfulness to all my line. You have established all the earth, And it abides as You have said. The earth obeys as You decree, A faithful servant here. Unless …