Apologies for posting late. We had a major wind storm and trees were down all over town, and power was out. But we are here now. Introduction: Interacting with the book Disarming Leviathan ...
A Sortie, Our Next Foray; We Once Again Sally Forth
The Beginning
“The first stair step of knowing anything rightly is to know God rightly, and to fear Him. To hate knowledge is the same thing as not choosing the fear of the Lord. And knowledge of the holy is the foundation of all understanding.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 12
Letters That Inform Us That You All Are Still There
Letter to the Editor: I hope you're doing well in this lovely Christmas season. Speaking of which, I know you usually receive and respond to perhaps more scholarly/heavier questions, or some ...
The Divide in the Heart of Man
“This tells us that the fundamental law/gospel divide is not to found in the text of Scripture. It is found in the difference between regenerate and unregenerate man. For the regenerate, everything from God is sweeter than the honeycomb. All of it is grace. For the unregenerate, the whole thing is the stench of death, including the good news of Christ on the cross. All of it is law and condemnation.”
Narco Boats and the Barbary Pirates
Introduction: So let us turn our attention to a most fascinating question, one that will challenge and/or vex the usefulness of “Christian worldview thinking.” Our president has ordered the blowing of narco boats out of the water, that water being of the international kind, and this directive is being implemented by Pete Hegseth, our Secretary …
Convex and Concave
“The world’s approach to sex is demented, but it is a demented caricature of certain creational realities. Men and women are convex and concave in their desires. Men want to possess and women want to be possessed. Men want to want and women want to be wanted. We reject the world’s approach to sex by embracing God’s approach.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 5
Cinched the Case
Not Legalism
“In other words, while there is real legalism out there, we want to make sure that we don’t define a legalist as someone who loves Jesus more than we do.”
Cold and Hot
“The law of God is like math. It doesn’t care about anybody’s hurt feelings. It is straight, and hard, and cold, and altogether righteous. But at the same time, when this cold, very cold law is resurrected in the body of Christ back from the darkness of the tomb, it comes to us as burning love. And this is why the message must be cold law and hot gospel.”
Fever in the Bunkhouse Now
Introduction: I will begin by noting that today's installment is going to be more autobiographical than normal, and will consequently be a bit more personal. There is a reason for this, as I hope will ...