Introduction: Up to a point, you can really understand the behavior of those many people who had friendships and connections with the folks at Turning Point USA as well as a friendship and connection ...
Paul, the Faithful Roman
Acts of the Apostles (52): Sermon Video Introduction: As the crow flies, Caesarea was around 47 miles from Jerusalem. But because of terrain and available roads, it was around 65 miles for ...
Hanging Judges, Easy Graders
“In the flesh, people who like to test things tend to be ornery; they like to see people crash and burn. In the flesh, people who are eager to hold fast to that which is good tend to want everything to be good; everybody gets a participant ribbon. And these two errors feed off each other.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 57
Legal Battles In The Church? | Doug Wilson
Just Cooperate, All Right?

Biblical Church Membership
[Concerning Heb. 13:7,17; 1 Thess. 5:12-13]
“These exhortations require the leaders of the church to know the names of those they are responsible for, and it requires the members of the church to know the names of those they are responsible to. The requirements are gibberish otherwise.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 56
Content Cluster [01-15-26]
Chill Golfer: A Road to Take Slowly: Makes Sense to Me: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Stands to Reason: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Jacob Aguiar Featured Product: Smashmouth Incrementalism:Over the years, I have written a good bit on what I call smashmouth incrementalism. The subject concerns what needs to be the ultimate goal …
The Coming Pivot
“The Jewish War would ‘fill up’ the sins of Israel (Matt. 23:32). That event would begin the ‘times of the Gentiles,’ a period that would eventually be completed. I take that completion as being marked by the conversion of the Jews, an event that has not yet happened (Rom. 11:15). This means we are still living in the times of the Gentiles.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 52
Mary Magdalene and Judas the Troubled
Introduction: The tag for this post is Exegetical Fragments, but that is not quite right. There are actually a number of exegetical fragments laid out on the table in front of us here, but I ...
The Point of Minding the Store
“Loving more and more means gathering more and more, which means minding the store, and then being generous with what you have gained. We give in order to get, in order that we might be able to give even more.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 45







