Theology That Bites Back
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“Many men of moderate spirits, if left alone, yet meeting with men who tell them stories and speak ill of those men that heretofore there had a good opinion of, now, before they have examined what the truth is, let a venom get into their spirits before they are aware. their hearts begin to be …
Men who do not comprehend their emptiness do not seek to be filled. As Thomas Watson put it, a hand clutching pebbles cannot be filled with gold. Men who do not understand their emptiness apart from God will not seek to be filled by God. And those who have been made aware of their spiritual …
Whenever we think about the kingdom of God, and as we pray the Lord’s prayer, asking for that kingdom to “come,” a host of theological questions cluster around. What do we mean by this? And how is it brought about? The kingdom refers to the rule and realm of Jesus Christ, which of course encompasses …
“Contentions and strifes that are as tedious to other men as death are their delight. They are most in their element when they are over head and ears in them” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 207).
The gnostic impulse lies deep with us, close to the bone. But God, in His mercy, has placed the resurrection of Jesus Christ right at the center of our faith. This means that in order to give way fully to gnosticism, we have to abandon the faith in order to do so. And in the …
“Islam is and always has been a religion of intolerance, a jihad without an end” (Serge Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, p. 138).
“The most unappreciated fact about the three most galvanizing performers in early rock ‘n’ roll—Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard Penniman—is that they all grew up in the Pentecostal church. Presley and Lewis were raised in the predominately white Assemblies of God, and Penniman in a variety of black Holiness and Church of God …
In this fallen world, we have to anticipate what happens whenever a covenant is broken. When men and women marry, they exchange vows in public, promising to forsake all others. Why is this necessary? The answer is that we are a race of sinners, and we cannot assume that people will do what they say …
“It is remarkable that in this age of rampant victimology, the persecution of Christians by Muslims has become a taboo subject in the Western academy. A complex web of myths, outright lies, and deliberately imposed silence dominates it. Thirteen centuries of religious discrimination, causing suffering and death of countless millions, have been covered by the …
“Young whites hired R&B bands for high school dances and frat parties. Then the craze spread to the North, where it was picked up by an enterprising DJ in Cleveland named Alan Freed, who decided to make a splash with an R&B radio show aimed specifically at white youth. To mask the racial origins of …
