Pairs Nicely
And Get a Job
[Concerning 2 Therss. 3:6-8] “So what is the apostolic tradition? Work hard. Show up on time. Don’t call in sick when you aren’t. Don’t be a malingerer. In short, the apostolic tradition is not esoteric at all. Change your oil every three thousand miles. Rotate your tires.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 81
One for the Other
“When we surrender the glory of man, He invites us up into the glory of God.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 82
Spiritual AIDS
“A church that does not practice church discipline is a church with an immune system collapse.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 89
What You Always Loved
“Damnation is a function of loving a lie, preeminently the lies you tell yourself. Self-deception is the prince of all deceptions. The wrath of God is seen in this, when God gives people over to what they have loved all along.”
Mines of Difficulty, pp. 78-79
What We Are Becoming
“In Heaven and Hell, we become what we have always been becoming. Men and women who love Christ will grow to love Him more and more, while men and women who hate Him will only sink deeper into that hatred.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 73
In Which Russell Moore Tries On Christian Nationalism
Introduction and Background: Minneapolis, it turns out, is ground zero for lots of things. George Floyd lost his life there, victim of a drug overdose, and his death was falsely blamed on the officer ...
Remembering the Point
“You don’t want to be the gardener who gets so focused on pulling weeds that he forgets he is doing so in order to grow something else. It is supposed to be a flower garden, not a no-weeds dirt patch.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 68
Letters From Go-Getters
Letter to the Editor: Apropos of "The Mess that is Candace":Do you want to know how I came to follow your blog?It was your haters.I had signed up for a FB group called "Based Lutheran Fellowship" ...
And Make It a Slow Growth Tree
“How should you deal with it when your theology tells you that you area living on the edge of a precipice? You should go out to the workshop. You should plant a tree. You should make dinner.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 64