Letter to the Editor: Sean Duffy (Sec. of Transportation) isn’t gay. He’s married (to a woman) and has 9 kids (with said woman).But I get the point about Josiah/Jehu.Thanks for ...
Letters That Help Us Rise to a Better Version of Ourselves
Somehow
“If the Jews, after the destruction of Jerusalem, had simply disappeared from the face of the earth, as many other people groups have done, we wouldn’t be faced with this problem. Nobody thinks much today about the Sumerians or Hittites. But the fact that Jews are still here means that we must incorporate them into Paul’s illustration somehow.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 125
The Clear Retrospect
“I am asking, I know, for a black swan revival.
I pray for revival, sweet, inexplicable
In every respect but the clear retrospect.”
21 Prayers, p. 38
On Getting In Between the Hogs and the Bucket
Introduction: So then, Elon is making a scene, and I think we should analyze it. It might even be said that he is on a spree—on a bender that his given over to an out-of-control sense of ...
Link and Chain
The father of one of the children being baptized here today was one of the first infants that I ever had the privilege of baptizing. The fact that he was my grandson was not doctrinally part of it, but it did put an exclamation point on the doctrine. This underscores one of the emphases that …
Block the Way in Grace
“Hold us, restrain us from our downward spiral.
Stop us from running headlong as we stagger.
In your great mercy, prevent us, please save us.
In your great mercy, please stand in our way.”
21 Prayers, p. 38
Sons of the Concubine
“Although the ethnic Jews are descended from Abraham physically, covenantally speaking, they are Ishmaelites. Summed up, they are in a covenant of bondage. However disciplined and hardworking they are, they do not know the taste of grace. They are driven, but not liberated. They are not children of the free woman, but rather through unbelief they have made themselves children of the slave concubine.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 122
Worth Another Couple of Tries Again
Dragnet Fishing
“Grant great revival in the churches, of course,
But for far more than this, I pray for the West.
May fresh living water from Ezekiel’s temple
Gather and grow and widen and deepen
To inundate nations and all of their peoples.
I pray that the fish would be abundant and plentiful
And that You would make us all fishers of men.”
21 Prayers, p. 37
God’s Plan for the Jews
“In contrast, the soft supersessionist agrees [with the hard supersessionist] that the church is Israel now, and that ethnic Israel is currently not a part of the true Israel. And when it comes to the salvation of individual Jews currently, we also agree that an unbelieving Jew is in the same position as an unbelieving Irishman, or Chinese, or Navajo. But the soft supersessionist holds that the Jews as a people are still part of God’s purpose and plan for the world. The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. When the Jews are converted en masse, this will usher in the latter day glory, and the resurrection of the dead. In short, the status of the Jews with regard to faith and unbelief is relevant for the rest of the world.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 120-121