Letter to the Editor: Referring to the Iran situation I recall James Jordan saying that as the Church is now the new Israel of God and the USA is the foremost Christian ally of present geographical ...
Letters With a Touch of Citrus
In Step With the Spirit
“Being spiritual does not mean being ethereal or ghostly. Being spiritual means being obedient—and this includes the way you speak to your children, discipline your children, encourage your children, teach your children.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 12
Laws Reflect the God of the System
“If man is god, as he is in secularism, then the ethics of that society will reflect the nature of man. But man changes all the time. He is unstable, like water.”
A Mission to Babylon
So let me say what we are seeking to do right here at the top, and then afterward try to anticipate any questions you might have about it. This summer, Lord willing, Christ Church in Moscow is going to establish a church plant in Washington, DC—starting July 13. So let me start by inviting you …
Wealth as a Platform for Wisdom
What does it mean to be wise concerning your wealth? What is wealth-wisdom exactly? As with everything else, the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge in this area also. “The fear ...
Water Flows Downstream
“If the parents are foolish, then so will the parenting be. If the parents are dictatorial, then so will the parenting be. If the parents are wise, then so will the parenting be.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 12
Testing Out an AI Voice
If you have been a regular around here, you probably know that I think some aspects of AI are stupendous and wonderful, all part of fulfilling the cultural mandate, and that other aspects of it are creepy and demented, and that a third category of AI is just lame. We are all still working out …
Perhaps Some Counseling Might Help . . .?
Sentimental and Cruel
“We’ve gotten to the point where surgeons can operate on and chemically castrate children. We can have mastectomies for teen girls and genital mutilation for the boys. And why? Because if we don’t, we might hurt somebody’s feelings. We are simultaneously sentimental and cruel . . . There is no way to bridge this gap by negotiations, but discussion, by trying to be winsome. You can’t. You can’t apologize your way into a good relationship with people who are on the other side of this chasm.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 8-9
A Sinful Substrate
“The fact that we clean up real nice on Sundays and go to church and sing songs and like to do religious things and like to talk theology doesn’t change the fundamental kink or twist in every human heart. That kink or twist can only be mortified by the Holy Spirit.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 7