“If this is the kind of reasoning that is going to be the guide for the men at the PCA helm, it will soon become apparent to the world that they are steering by the mast in front of them, and not by the North Star at all.”
As If It Needed to be Stickier
The New Perspective on Paul “is thrown in to add a little stickiness to the doctrinal taffy pull that we have going on here.”
Jacob and Whitney
Human history begins with a wedding. God fashioned Adam from the dust of the ground, and set him to work. His first assigned task was to tend and keep the Garden (Gen. 2:15). His second assigned task was to name all the animals, looking to see if among them there might be a suitable helper …
They Can Always Fix That
Swimming in Syrup
“I do want to say one thing about how they answered the most glaring problem with the study committee—that being the stacked nature of the committee. To put it in terms that the average layman can follow, that committee was as stacked as a double order of golden-brown buttermilks.”
Memes From the Archives (2016)
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Content Cluster Muster [12-28-23]
Hope You Had a Marvelous Christmas: Just Right: And as always, more here. Sometimes Even My Comment Section: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Time to Get Up: Only a Slight Ancestral Connection: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Jeremy Mann And Another Podcast Also: Featured Product: 21 Prayers for Pastors on the Lord’s Day:Over a …
Not on the Mantle
“Now that a person is converted, can we make distinctions in the text? Certainly we can distinguish imperatives from indicatives, laws from promises, and so on. But now that I saved, everything is contextualized within that grace. That grace surrounds everything, making it lovely. It is in that grace that we now stand. I can tell grammatically when God issues a requirement for His people. This is the vase of demand, on the mantelpiece of law, situated in the middle of the house of grace. And I live in the house, not on the mantle.”
That Spirit of Antichrist
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Yeats, The Second Coming Introduction: In order ...
Blunt Force Systematics
“Systematic theology is nothing more or less than remembering what the Bible says everywhere else when you come to study what it is saying here . . . No one systematic theology covers everything, and many of them get key features positively wrong—like a guy putting a jigsaw puzzle of a sailboat together, when he is working from the wrong box top, a picture of a lighthouse. By the end, he will be putting the pieces in with a mallet.”