“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
The Mess That Is Candace
Introduction: Up to a point, you can really understand the behavior of those many people who had friendships and connections with the folks at Turning Point USA as well as a friendship and connection ...
Hanging Judges, Easy Graders
“In the flesh, people who like to test things tend to be ornery; they like to see people crash and burn. In the flesh, people who are eager to hold fast to that which is good tend to want everything to be good; everybody gets a participant ribbon. And these two errors feed off each other.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 57
Just Cooperate, All Right?
Biblical Church Membership
[Concerning Heb. 13:7,17; 1 Thess. 5:12-13]
“These exhortations require the leaders of the church to know the names of those they are responsible for, and it requires the members of the church to know the names of those they are responsible to. The requirements are gibberish otherwise.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 56
The Coming Pivot
“The Jewish War would ‘fill up’ the sins of Israel (Matt. 23:32). That event would begin the ‘times of the Gentiles,’ a period that would eventually be completed. I take that completion as being marked by the conversion of the Jews, an event that has not yet happened (Rom. 11:15). This means we are still living in the times of the Gentiles.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 52