Philippians (8): Sermon Video Introduction: We have been focusing on like-mindedness and joy. But the particular like-mindedness and joy that Paul is urging upon the Philippians is not simply ...
No Murmuring at All
Like Separating Height and WIdth
“We are living in a time when assenus can be severed from fiducia and the fiducia thrown away like it was a wrapper, and this can be done in the name of a defense of Reformed orthodoxy! Maybe LaHaye and Jenkins are right and it is the last days.”
Can’t Keep What You Throw Away
“What I am arguing for I will say yet again. You can’t have it both ways. You cannot establish a culture that has institutionalized the abandonment of the unique dignity of women, and then, when the culture starts acting on that perverse premise, suddenly find some dignity for them to stand on. You don’t have any of that dignity any more. You threw is away, remember? And you mercilessly mocked those who objected to throwing it away. You laughed at their predictions. They objected to discarding a unique feminine dignity, and you mocked them. When the consequences of having lost that dignity start to manifest themselves—as they will continue to do with increasing regularity—you hate and despise them. You hate them for being right in the prediction, and you hate them because their ‘misogynist’ subcultures are among the few remaining places where women are not treated like that.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 73-74
The Squirrel and the Tree
“The purveyors of said doctrine (as in, like, me) believe that we are justified by faith, through faith, unto faith, on faith, under faith, and everything else a squirrel can do to a tree. All faith, all the time, all the way down.”
Boyhood Rambles
Our last five years in Annapolis were in the house at the top of Genesse Street. The house had a spacious side yard, and so of course lots of time was burned through there. But the chief glory of that house’s location was the fact that it was catty corner from “the woods.” The woods …
Always Tiresome
Yeah, LIke That
“There were a number of times where the prophets of God came out of the wilderness in order to uphold the holiness of the law, but they did so using language that struck the pious Jews of their day like paint thinner on a paper cut.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 69-70
Monocovenantal?
“If the critics mean that I hold that there has only been one covenant throughout the history of mankind, then the charge is false. God made one covenant with mankind in Adam, and He made a distinct and separate restorative covenant with mankind in Christ. So that would be two covenants, not one.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 9
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No Autonomous Adams
“If Adam had not fallen, would he have been under any obligation to say ‘thank you’ to God? And when Jesus was obeying His Father, even to the point of the cross, was He doing so in faith? If He was doing so in faith, then that means the problem with the first Adam was his unbelief, and not an action that brought about raw demerit.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles, p. 8