Theology That Bites Back
“It is Your declaration, and these are Your purposes,
To bring the whole world to Your gracious salvation.
Why would You give such good promises to us
And chafe when Your servants ask You to fulfill them?
All of this now is already in motion—
Why not more rapidly? Why not more quickly?”
21 Prayers, p. 40
Letter to the Editor: Sean Duffy (Sec. of Transportation) isn’t gay. He’s married (to a woman) and has 9 kids (with said woman).But I get the point about Josiah/Jehu.Thanks for ...
“If the Jews, after the destruction of Jerusalem, had simply disappeared from the face of the earth, as many other people groups have done, we wouldn’t be faced with this problem. Nobody thinks much today about the Sumerians or Hittites. But the fact that Jews are still here means that we must incorporate them into Paul’s illustration somehow.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 125
“I am asking, I know, for a black swan revival.
I pray for revival, sweet, inexplicable
In every respect but the clear retrospect.”
21 Prayers, p. 38
Introduction: So then, Elon is making a scene, and I think we should analyze it. It might even be said that he is on a spree—on a bender that his given over to an out-of-control sense of ...
Acts of the Apostles (20): Sermon Video Introduction: Remember that the Lord had said the gospel would progress from Jerusalem to Judaea, to Samaria, and then to the uttermost parts of the ...
The father of one of the children being baptized here today was one of the first infants that I ever had the privilege of baptizing. The fact that he was my grandson was not doctrinally part of it, but it did put an exclamation point on the doctrine. This underscores one of the emphases that …
“Hold us, restrain us from our downward spiral.
Stop us from running headlong as we stagger.
In your great mercy, prevent us, please save us.
In your great mercy, please stand in our way.”
21 Prayers, p. 38
“Although the ethnic Jews are descended from Abraham physically, covenantally speaking, they are Ishmaelites. Summed up, they are in a covenant of bondage. However disciplined and hardworking they are, they do not know the taste of grace. They are driven, but not liberated. They are not children of the free woman, but rather through unbelief they have made themselves children of the slave concubine.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 122
