Letter to the Editor: I think I already know the answer to this question, but I’ve always been curious. I have always wondered how a theologian would hash out the question: is it ...
Letters With November in Mid-Stride
And Here We Are
“Cultures apart from Christ cannot avoid the abyss. Cultures apart from Christ cannot stand . . . Cultures apart from Christ must eventually call down the chaos. And here we are.”
Slavery and Evangelical Timidity
Introduction: As everyone should know by now, biblical slavery is my most favoritest subject in the whole wide world. I turn to it most every chance I get, and I even recently turned in the manuscript of an honest commentary on Philemon. This is an epistle that does receive a modest amount of attention from …
The Assigned Task
“He didn’t say copy the nations. He didn’t say run from the nations. He said disciple the nations.”
Christmas Spirit
Immodest Wenches
Introduction: My point in this post is not—lest someone mistake my point—to do anything so simple as decry immodest attire in women. And by the kind of immodesty I am not for the most part ...
Our Only Task
“The Christian response must be to insist that all of their idols have to be overthrown. That is what true Christian cultural engagement is. That is the only thing that Christian cultural engagement can ever possibly be.”
True Response
“In the face of the kind of evil that is abroad in the world, evangelical Christians need to stop filling up their worship services with sentimentalist treacle and to start worshiping biblically in a very dark world.”
Marriage and the Age to Come
Introduction: In working through the claims of full preterism, it is important to realize just how many other issues are connected to it. It is not just a matter of chronology or timing, and ...
Against That Day
“We cannot get people back to a love for God by means of sentimentalist kitten hugging. We do it by declaring the wrath to come, and the staggering provision that God has made for ugly and defiant sinners against that day of wrath.”