An insightful correspondent noted something peculiar about the charges against the Australian evangelicals that I wrote about yesterday. They were guilty of an offending statement, which he tinkered around with, substituting words like Bible for words like Koran, and Christ Church for things like Islam. What we find is some compelling evidence of some home-grown …
Seething With Hatreds
The province of Victoria in Australia passed a “Racial and Religious Tolerance Act,” which now looks to end in what happening? You guessed it — several evangelical teachers going to jail. A judge has ordered these two Christians to apologize for comments they made in a seminar on Islam or face some jail time. Check …
Mint, Dill, and Cummin Cops
In our service of worship, we declare the mighty acts of God. He has made all things, and then recreated them in His Son Jesus Christ. We are here today because we profess to believe this. Now these declarations by God’s covenant people are potent, whether or not unbelievers are paying any attention to them …
Broken Bread
One of God’s great patterns is that of taking apart, and then restoring fully. The restoration, the resurrection, is fuller, deeper, and richer than the original unity ever was. But before God tears, we consistently tend to panic, afraid that this time He will not be able to put anything back together. But He always …
Snippets of the Blues
Nancy and I have arrived in Memphis for the ACCS conference this week, and I have somehow managed to get Internet access in our room. If I have a chance, I hope to post some things from this vantage in lovely Tennessee, just a half a mile from the Mississippi Bridge. Lord willing, and the …
Farley’s Ghost
Visionaries, Dan asked what students at NSA and Logos learn about the scientific method. In response to that question, one of the first things they might learn is that the phrases “the real world” and “the material world” are not interchangeable. Embedded in Dan’s question is the clear assumption that the Enlightenment project has its …
Three Jalapenos
Visionaries, I am offering a slightly edited post, for Susan. Her post describing the harsh realities of life under biblical law was very clever, and I thought I could make a similar point by sketching some aspects of life under the current theocratic regime of the great god Demos. An Open Letter to Dr. Dennis …
Flooding the World Again
As Scripture instructs, we must be adults in our understanding. But we must also cultivate what Luke records in the books of Acts when he says that the early Christians ate their bread with gladness and simplicity of heart. We may be refreshed with both maturity and simplicity when we come to understand the water …
Deep Truths
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! God and Lord, we praise You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns forever. You have delivered the kingdoms of men into His hand, and You have determined through the folly of preaching to subdue all rebels against the cross, all …
Dead Men
In the Word of God, we are summoned to approach the throne of grace with great boldness. The early apostles, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, dominated by Him completely, preached the Word with great boldness. The apostle Paul, after many years of apostolic ministry, had, as one of his prayer requests, the …