“As soon as he said oh, wretched man that I am, he would be rejected as one of those people who think they’re better than everybody else” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 22).
The Great Servant Leadership Mistake
Introduction: In her next chapter, Aimee Byrd continues a similar pattern. She says a lot of good things, like a handful of pearls with no thread to make a necklace. But she also says some worrisome things, and then third, she assembles part of what she says to support her central non sequitur. After addressing …
Book of the Month: September 2018
Knowing Christ by Mark Jones is a worthy companion volume to J.I. Packer’s classic Knowing God. It is a work of devotional theology or, if you prefer, theological devotion. Nancy and I read this one together aloud, bit by bit, and that was a good way to work through something as dense and as hand-packed …
Psalm 91/Under the Shadow of the Almighty
Introduction: According to a tradition among the Jews, if a psalm is not attributed to anyone, then the credit should go to the author of the previous psalm. There is no basis for being dogmatic about it, but this would mean that Psalm 91 was composed by Moses. The reason this is suggestive is that …
Which Is That They Shouldn’t Serve on Juries
“Those who greet every incident with loud shouts of glad generalization are revealing far more than they realize” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 21).
You Write the Rest of the Story
Like a Donkey Eating a Thistle
[Moderate Christians] “want to say that homosexual acts are, without a doubt, in a certain sense, sinful, certainly, which is a conclusion we must come to if we are to wrestle authentically with the text. We wish we could say differently—oh, how we wish—but, for the time being, our hermeneutic and our donor base, but …
How God Addresses Us
“Jesus Christ is our federal representative and head, which means that He is the appointed face of the new human race, the appointed face of the new humanity. And when God wants to communicate with that new human race, He addresses us to our face” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 15-16).
When Liberty Gets Leprosy: The Libertarian Lure
Introduction Since we are in between elections, and because public feelings are not running high at just this moment, I thought it would be safe to take a moment to discuss the libertarian temptation. And so let us begin by defining terms. I am a conservative, not a libertarian, but there is quite a bit …
Turned Into, Turned On By
“We become like what we worship. If we worship Change, we will come to insist on our right to be turned into anything, and to be turned on by anything. If we worship God and God only, we will gladly accept His sexual assignments. If He decided to make you a boy, since He is …