Once a British politician was running for office, and he was confronted by a heckler who shouted out that he would not vote for him if he were the archangel Gabriel. “Ah,” the politician replied. “But if I were the archangel Gabriel, you would not be in my constituency.” Now they were both speaking “negatively” …
Moses the Christian
God had told Abraham that his descendants would spend four hundred years in another nation. This particular exile began in the days of Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, and his great-grandson, Joseph. The children of Israel went down to Egypt 70 strong, and they emerged from that land 400 years later, an enormous multitude. But the various …
This Sorry World
“The Christian faith is public, and not private. It is the salvation of the world, and the world can no more evade that salvation that a deserted lawn chair on the beach can resist a tsunami — even if the Styrofoam cooler comes over to help. Do you want to stop the salvation of the …
Playing Tackle
“Our investigations reveal that the austere world of black and white careful analysis, epistemological invective, doctrinal sarcasm, and eschatological jihad has obscured our sunny selves from public view. This is not necessarily a bad thing because our sunny selves can also take some getting used to. But we still thought a small book was in …
Oops
Sorry about the silence everybody. Yesterday I was pounded, and today somebody apparently cut the fiber optic line between Pullman and Moscow on accident. Back up now.
An Agenda For Politics
“But do we have an agenda for politics? Yes, we do. The Christian faith is public. Like all other sinful things in this world, Jesus Christ offers politics salvation. But when Jesus Christ invites anyone or anything to Himself, He bids him come and die. So this cannot be salvation through self-effort, self-righteousness, or self-importance. …
Marriage As Manifest Glory XXXIV
INTRODUCTION: We have learned that being a godly Christian husband or wife is a subset of being a godly Christian period. That being the case, we see that certain characteristics that all Christians are to share readily have a peculiar and pointed application to husbands and wives. With this in mind, we need to take …
Marriage As Manifest Glory XXXIII
INTRODUCTION: As we have noted, men as husbands can fail in their calling to be masculine in various ways. But men and women are a fallen race together, and women also stumble in their calling to be feminine. Remembering that folly is a moral category in the Bible, we need to deal with the fact …
More Than Honest
The other day I thought I was going to be able to stop writing about Terry Morin’s postings about Christ Church (and about me). But this turns out, in the event, not to be the case. Here is at least one more. The reason for this post is that I need to correct one error …
Covenant and Judgments
“This is a truth we also acknowledge. In one sense, the antebellum South was a Christian nation, but it was a Christian nation that invited, and received, a genuinely severe judgment from the God who is not mocked. This judgment from a holy God included all the atrocities of Sherman, and sinful men must always …