Theology That Bites Back
“Brash and confident, the inventor stands perched on the roof of the barn. Strapped to his arms, and across his back, is a flying contraption of his own devising. It is made of wood, wire, and canvas; a modern Daedelus stands ready to take flight. He believes, and believes strongly, that he has conquered the …
Introduction: Experiencing blessings without understanding the foundation of those blessing is to dance blindfold along the edge of a precipice. As Cotton Mather once put it, faithfulness begat prosperity, ...
“Put another way, there is no such thing as a merely nominal Christian any more than we can find a man who is nominal husband. There are many faithless husbands, but if a man is a husband at all, then is as much a husband as a faithful one.”
“The decree is not independent of means because is it a decree concerning those means.”
Deal With It at the Next Rest Stop: Red Box Road: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Like an Ice Breaker: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Renato Muccillo Featured Product: Education (Chrestomathy):This small book is a collection of my quotations on the subject of education, taken from sources all over tarnation. The word chrestomathy refers …
“Moderns who are stuck with the language of Westminster want to say that we actually have to understand this as a sacramental union, with the word sacramental being understood as some sort of diluting agent. But I want to say it is a sacramental union, with union meaning union.”
Introduction: At the end of last month, I posted a thread of eleven comments on what I was there calling Hell-no-nationalism. It stirred the pot significantly, garnering almost 300K looks, and if we ...
“The Reformation began with a striking emphasis on the center of the covenant, which was Christ and Him crucified . . . The Reformers said you recognize a man by looking at his face, not the ends of his shoelaces, and if you want to recognize the Church, then you must look straight at her Head, who is Christ.”
Letter to the Editor: In Rev. 2:26–27, Christians are said to rule nations with a rod of iron, Psalm 2-style. If preterism is true (big "if"!! haha), what kind of ruling with an iron ...
