Why the Heck Not?
Refusing to Take That Test Is Passing It
“If our justification were to be lost if we scored less than 100 percent on the justification test (administered by St. Peter at the Pearlies), every last one of us, yours truly included, would be headed for the bad place. We don’t take the justification test for our justification. Jesus took that test. And no, this should not make us want to sin that grace may abound.”
Content Cluster Muster [11-16-23]
Always Keep Your Cool: Open Road: More here . . . A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Okay: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Thomas Kegler And Another Podcast Also: Featured Product: Letters of Marital Counsel:This book is the third in a series of counseling books, all of them made up of fictional letters. In this …
What Justified Eyes Are Seeing
“When we say that something or other is ‘necessary to justification’ . . . we have to be absolutely clear what we are meaning. Do we mean ‘that which is revealed in the Bible concerning justification,’ or do we mean ‘that which a sinner has to understand to be justified’? If we affirm the latter, then we are denying the Pauline doctrine of justification apart from works of the law.”
Anthony Bradley, Conflicted Apologist for Bad JuJu
Introduction: He does not know it, and almost certainly would never admit it, but Anthony Bradley wants to live in a world where black men can get lynched because of white women’s tears. He ...
November Epistolary Admonitions, the First Two Particularly
Letter to the Editor: From "Empathy as the Headwaters of Cruelty": "There are of course some people’s children who never paid much attention in English class, and who simply use ...
No Raw Merit
“Despite all the intramural differences in how we put things, it is distinct from a strict merit system which sees Adam as the first failed Pelagian.”
Evangelical Doctors, Coughing Up Blood
Introduction: This last week, the voters of Ohio enshrined a right to abortion in their state constitution, in what might be called Ohio's suicide note. In the heady days after the Jericho of ...
The Grace of All Forgiveness
Some have argued that baptism should be withheld from infants and children because they think it a sign, not of inclusion in Christ, but rather as a sign of ordination—as a sign of taking on the mantle of service for Christ. This would be a strong argument against infant baptism if true, but the Scriptures …
Christ as the Incense of Prayer/Psalm 141
Sermon Video Introduction: We now come to the final decade of psalms. We first began this series almost twenty years ago—when some of you young marrieds were still pre-school, and the year you ...