“The letter kills. Paul cannot mean that letters themselves automatically do this, because he is warning of this problem by means of letters. He was not guilty of the problem he was warning against — his ministry was not of letters, but of the Spirit, and we know this because he used letters to tell …
Book of the Month/April 2014
I have been blessed by David Wells for many years. This book, God in the Whirlwind, is the capstone of a particular writing project, one that began with No Place for Truth. I read that book in 1994, and have been faithfully reading his other contributions as they came out. The other books, well worth …
A Temptation for the Tidy-minded
“Illegitimate systematics is done by the kind of people who put together jigsaw puzzles with a pair of scissors and mallet handy. The solution is not to abandon systematics, which is not possible anyway. Everybody in this discussion has a system because everybody wants to understand what the Bible as a whole teaches. Our task …
Like the Thing They Loved
A number of times I have sought to reinforce the biblical principle that you become like what you worship. This is an inexorable law; there are no opt outs. The passage I have cited most often in this regard is where the psalmist says that those who make idols are “like unto them” (Ps. 115:8) …
A Great Aphorism
One of the reasons why Chesterton is such an encouragement to us is that he understands the role of imagination. This is not the same thing as understanding imagination itself — for no man understands that — but Chesterton does understand the important role that imagination must play. He understands it, and he practices what …
I Like the Trailer, but the Book is Better
Boys of Blur | Official Trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo.
Hall of Tyrannus Online
The apostle Paul was a strategic thinker. He understood the concept of a “decisive point,” which is a point in the enemy’s line which is simultaneously stratetgic and feasible. No sense attacking places that cannot be taken. No sense taking places which make absolutely no difference to the battle whether or not you take them. …
Tota Scriptura
“Systematic theology is nothing less than remembering what you read in other passages while you are reading this passage. The kind of thing that gives systematic theology a bad name is remembering what you thought other passages said, privileging them in some sort of special pleading, and making the verse in front of you do …
More or Less
“The Bible says that Jesus taught with authority, and not like the scribadiddles” (Against the Church, p. 52).
Whores for Purity
After two days wind-surfing the zeitgeist, World Vision went ploosh in the water. They had announced a couple of days ago that they were reversing their policy and would now hire people who were tangled up in same-sex mirages, and that they were not doing this in response to any pressure. Not a bit of …