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Letters on the Threshold of the Dog Days
The Cassandra Effect
“The difficulty manifests itself when accurate predictions are made about moral deteriorations. In such cases, vindication is usually no vindication at all. By the time the predicted moral deterioration is complete, nobody is in any moral shape to analyze what just happened.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 3-4
Legalism Is Not When Someone Loves God More Than I Do
“Application is not legalism. Obedience is not legalism. Legalism is inventing your own standard. But doing what God said to do the way that God said to do it is not legalism at all: ‘hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee.’”
Keep Your Kids, p. 112
Gamaliel, Hot Heads, and Pan-Flashes
Introduction: Early on in the book of Acts, the apostles were hauled in because of their disruptive preaching, and after they told the Council that they were going to obey God and not them, the ...
The Ultimate Standard
“God does not just give a set of laws. He tells us to love Him. We aren’t told to grit out teeth and conform ourselves externally to a certain set of actions. The principal command is to love. The ultimate standard is to love.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 112
And Apparently a Sore Spot
Could Happen to Anyone
Don’t Try This at Home
“Ruth was a virtuous woman, but she had some reputation issues: generally you don’t go out to the threshing floor and sleep at a man’s feet until he wakes up. That text is not usually used in courtship seminars.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 106
Loyalty to Christ, or Just Anti-American?
“If you find yourself in real solidarity with Palestinian Christians, and you want to know if it is love for Jesus, or just your nascent inner-anti-Semite rising, just ask yourself this question . . . Who do you have more in common with—a Palestinian non-Christian or a devout Christian woman with hoop earrings who just got back from the RNC, where she spent the entire convention wearing a big hat shaped like an elephant?”
Use the Camera of Faith
“Christendom will be easier to see when it can be photographed, but we are called to see it whether it can be photographed or not.”