“The people always have an earnest desire to have a messenger who is willing to prophesy smooth things for them (Is. 30:10). ‘Prophesy deceits unto us’—they want deceits, boy, and they want them layered on thick. They want to heap up teachers who will stroke their felt needs (2 Tim. 4:3). If a man of wind comes prophesying wine and beer, he would be just the right spokesman for this people (Mich. 2:11). They want prophets who will speak to them in terms of affirming and melted butterscotch. They want pumpkin spice sermons.”
Why Isn’t She Impressed?
Content Cluster [05-07-26]
Good Works in Eastern Europe: As I believe many of you know, I serve on the board of the Joint Eastern European Project (JEEP). These folks are doing really good gospel work in a war-torn area of the world. If you would like an update on what they are doing, and how you can help, …
Smells Just Like That
“What does shocking language do? One of the things it accomplishes is that it wakes people up. It brings them to their senses. It smells like burnt Marsh-wiggle.”
Slicker Than a Pocket Full of Pudding
Introduction: So Nick Fuentes is now maintaining that white people who are opposed to open borders should make a point of voting Democrat in the mid-terms, and they would do this as a way of "punishing" ...
Letters, LIke May Flowers, Have Come
Letter to the Editor: RE: In Honor of Ben SasseMore than one thing can be true at the same time, which a lot of society seems to have forgotten. It’s common sense and critical thinking. ...
Drawing the Line Somewhere
“There is no shortage of sin to denounce, and yet the only sin that the Christian church is willing to denounce is the sin of denouncing any of it.”
In Honor of Ben Sasse
Introduction: So this is a post that requires a little bit of background. Not too much, but some. If you bear with me, I should be making good sense by the end. The grand theme is this. In Augustine's ...
Coming of Age and Life Between the Sexes #3
Introduction: We live in egalitarian times, and consequently I have selected a text which makes many moderate complementarians flinch, and which makes patriarchal types, of the eighth-grade-boy school ...
Missing the Jab
[Concerning Matt. 6:2] “We often miss the earthy peasant humor of Christ (that He could use to devastating effect) because we read our Bibles through seven or eight layers of high gloss sanctimony. But Jesus was not afraid to make fun of what might be called tarantara tithers.”