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 ...
Gamaliel, Hot Heads, and Pan-Flashes
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
Some FLF Info, and Who Doesn’t Need That?
This coing October I’ll be in Nashville, and will be speaking at the annual Fight Laugh Feast Conference. As is normal with such things, the conference’s topic changes by the year, and so this year’s topic is School Wars: Rebuilding Christendom With Your Kids. I have been involved the retrieval of real education since the …
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.”
Clear and Direct Push Offs
“The world is full of people who cross boundaries, and Christian women (wanting to be gracious) will often have difficulty telling a random stranger to pound sand. Now they don’t have to use that phrase, of course, but whatever they say, it should be clear and direct. Men who cross boundaries are frequently not masters of subtlety.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 103
Hunting the Elephant, Hunting the Rabbit
Introduction: The other day I wrote about the regrettable evaporation of Phase 2 on the Epstein case, and in that piece I listed a number of possible options for understanding it. These options were offered to you, the discerning public, as possible explainers for what the heck was going on. I offered them as a …