Theology That Bites Back
My choice this month—since the times are so tumultuous, and because Kamala Harris is being dispatched yet again to make the Ukraine situation better—is a book calculated to cheer you up a bit. It is called The Storm Before the Calm by George Friedman. This is not a Christian book, and so for the full …
“It is too often the case that we follow Christ when pocket change is involved, but dismiss the demands of discipleship when real money starts to alter our exegesis.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 76
Called to Called: Good Thinking: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: More Open Road: More here. Californian Donations in Kind to the Other States: Jokes I Like to Tell: One time a private plane was making its way across Lake Superior, on its way to an international conference of scientists that was meeting …
“Too many Christians think that regeneration, or good intentions, or having a nice personality will somehow make your memory perfect, or will prevent you from getting hit by a truck. Suppose you get hit by that truck, and your heirs and your partner’s heirs are all trying to figure out what that handshake fifteen years ago meant. So write it down. This does not make you suspicious and unloving. God loves us perfectly, and He still wrote it down.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 72
https://episodes.castos.com/5f8639643db6d9-26596059/37655/c6eb3217-f51a-4b6e-bb7c-6291b8662771/Plodcast-228-Final.mp3Check out Doug’s page on Canon Plus: mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover/pages/douglas-wilson Doug’s book recommendation: It’s Good to Be a Man by Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ovdYfe Canon: https://canonpress.com/products/its-good-to-be-a-man/ Audiobook: https://mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover/books/2585
https://episodes.castos.com/5f8639643db6d9-26596059/37655/c6eb3217-f51a-4b6e-bb7c-6291b8662771/Plodcast-228-Final.mp3Check out Doug’s page on Canon Plus: mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover/pages/douglas-wilson Doug’s book recommendation: It’s Good to Be a Man by Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ovdYfe Canon: https://canonpress.com/products/its-good-to-be-a-man/ Audiobook: https://mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover/books/2585
Dear Dawson, If you are any kind of a Christian at all, you know about the Golden Rule. All kinds of people know about the Golden Rule, in fact, including many unbelievers. What many people do not ...
“So not only are they lazy they are also lazy and entitled. And, to apply the old proverb to them it could be raining porridge and they’d have forgotten their bowl.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 70
Letter to the Editor: Regarding She don't lie, Why the invasion? Putin doesn't want nukes in a NATO'ed Ukraine. Closer than Cuba to the United States. Kennedy felt the same in 1962. Pray ...
“The Bible teaches us that cream rises. This is not because cream has anything to boast of, but rather because of how God created and governs His world . . . Cream rises because of the blessing of God. The point is to seek the blessing of being cream, and then secondarily, after that, seeking blessing that comes to cream. You never want to strive to be skim milk, and yet somehow rise like cream.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 66
