Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Letter to the Editor: My husband has led us into a congregation that is Arminian with a baptismal regeneration theology, very weak leadership, and works righteousness abounding.Is it wrong ...
“If a man feels called to the ministry, one of the first things he should do is find a sweet little thing with a stout heart, marry her, and start having fat evangelical babies. This is something the homo-catechized world will sneer at, but only because they can’t do it. All they have is gay fruitlessness.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
Introduction: https://twitter.com/douglaswils/status/1974579181527986609 Last week a random thought occurred to me, and so naturally I thought I should share it with the world, or at least the ...
We are assembled here in the name of Jesus Christ, and this means that we are assembled here in the presence of God. This is a Christian wedding, certainly, but not simply because it is being held in a Christian church, or because a Christian minister is officiating. Nor is it a Christian wedding just …
The Gibson brothers—David and Jonathan—are a real gift to the church, and one of them has done it again. They have worked together on weighty theological topics through books like From Heaven He Came and Sought Her or Ruined Sinners to Reclaim. Jonathan Gibson has done valuable work with Be Thou My Vision, an excellent …
“In times like ours, it is a standing disgrace that courage is not required to preach sermons.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
“This means that, to be truly feminine, the Church must be obedient. And what is the Church told to do? The church is commanded to have masculine leadership . . . and that means that the Church is never more feminine than when the worship is led by men, the liturgy is conducted by men, and the one who opens the text of the sermon to read it aloud is a man.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 94-95
Introduction: One word that keeps coming up again and again in reference to the impact of Charlie Kirk's death is the word revival. I don't want to disagree with this, for reasons that will become ...
“When the church is in free fall, it doesn’t make sense to look wistfully back at the first yard or so when you were still just underneath the plane.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 93
