“Submission denied can take pathological forms. This is why we have sad-masochism, rape fantasies, bondage and submission games, and Fifty Shades of Hurt Me Baby. Such is the nature of our demented times” ().
Concise and to the Point, p. 114
Jehovah and the Midterms
This is the last regularly scheduled post before I move into NQN beast mode and, as it turns out, it is also the last post before the midterms—those foreboding midterms. I have something of a rag bag of thoughts for you all on that topic, and so I have put them down for you in …
Letters That Come Up With the Sun
Letter to the Editor: Good overview, but I think two key things are missing.One claimed cause was that students were upset that the schools they go to, but other people pay for, are underfunded. ...
Things Are Fine
Blinkered Dogmatism
“More is involved in raising up a godly seed than for a man to have dogmatic convictions about birth control, matched only by his unwillingness to feed, read to, educate, pay tuition for, bestow upon, and love the results of his dogmatism. There are no promised covenantal blessings for the self-absorbed proprietors of stud farms.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 108
Go Home, Europe, You’re Drunk
Introduction: One lesson that is soon learned in pastoral ministry is that you don’t try to counsel people, or evangelize them either for that matter, when they are drunk. Save your energy for sweeping water uphill. But the tenderhearted feel so sorry for the person who is, um, impaired, that they want to step in …
Breathing Really Hard
“Every fruitful minister in the history of the world has routinely been in over his head. Trust God and go . . . And when you have done all, and you stand before your Maker—cut, bleeding, grimy, sweating, and breathing hard—you will say that you are an unworthy servant, and only did as you were instructed (Luke 17:10). If that. And he will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matt. 25:23). Enter into joy.”
Concise and to the Point, pp. 98-99
Catching Up on the Letters
I would remind you all that I was out gallivanting for several weeks, and so did not have a letters section for you on Tuesdays, as was my wont. So we are back in the saddle now, but with one necessary ...
Which Is Why They Are Huffy
“Men who resent being warned are men who have already neglected too many warnings.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 97
Our Memorial on Nations: Comments and Observations
Introduction: This is just a hat tip to a famous painting, and not a violation of the Second Commandment. At the triennial meeting of the CREC Council a few weeks ago, we adopted a memorial on ...