“‘Welcome to my home,’ the creature on the right side said. His voice sounded deep, like black gravel.”
Andrew and the Firedrake, p. 9
Letters That Say What Needs to be Said
Letter to the Editor: I am a believer in Memphis, TN. I am at a reformed church and we have family meals after the service where members can fellowship with each other. I say this to show ...
Soft But Metallic
“The air was completely still, and the boy could not hear anything, not even the faint murmuring of insects. And that is why, after about a half an hour, his attention was drawn to a distant metallic sound, like silver coins being stirred in a chest in a distant room.”
Andrew and the Firedrake, p. 3
Ghastly Simplicity
Introduction: Some things cannot be said without presupposing other things. All words require a speaker. All laws require a legislature. All design presupposes a designer. All morality assumes a standard. ...
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A True Story Either Way
“But I can say that if it really happened, then it happened as I have told it. If it did not, then it should be reckoned as the kind of fairy story that is still truer in many ways than the true histories that some people think they like to tell.”
Andrew and the Firedrake, p. ix
Now I See
So Be a Big Pot on Your Own Time
“Samuel Rutherford reputedly said that just as we cook soup in a big pot but serve it in little bowls, so the preacher should study with human scholarship but preach with utter simplicity.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 201
A Different Vantage
“We are living in a time when all the wheels appear to be coming off Pharaoh’s chariots. But this should not distress us because we are Israelites, and we are already standing on the opposite shore.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 99
Junipers Producing Grapefruit
“A nation of fornicating potheads will not enjoy civil liberty. You might as well expect to plant thistles and harvest barley.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 90
Imitate the Whole Story
“Husbands, your task is to model for the world what the objective gospel actually looks like. And, in case you have forgotten, it looks like blood, sweat, and tears. You are the hands of Christ as He preaches His message of salvation to the world, and never forget that those hands are pierced. You are husbands—you are to be pierced. You are the head. Does that tempt you to puff yourself up, as though that meant you were the King Boss? No, you are the head, and you are instructed to be the head the same way Jesus was. How was Jesus the head? Remember that if you are the head, you are supposed to have a crown of thorns jammed on it.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 86