But Who Among Us Has This Not Happened To?
A Whole New World
“For example, in the space of a few short weeks, Bruce Jenner identified as a woman, Rachel Dolezal identified as black, and I identified as svelte. Consider the possibilities before us!” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 221).
You Don’t Have to Drink the Whole Jar of Vinegar to See if It Is Vinegar at the Bottom
“God is Lord of the tongue, and He evaluates the jar of our hearts by the droplets around the upper lip of it” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 216).
Gone Full Delusional
“They have gotten themselves into the epistemic rat hole of shouting down a visiting speaker with the words, ‘We believe in free speech’” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 216).
Take Me Instead
Introduction: There are times when I feel like that peace-making fellow at Gettysburg who decided to usher in national harmony by parading between the two armies wearing a blue coat and gray trousers. The only thing that happened was that he got shot at by both sides, and retired from the field a bit wiser. …
Which Then Fly in the Sunshine
Progressives “still defend free speech, ardently and sincerely, but free speech is now defined as that which contributes to the public good, makes them feel better down to their toes, and releases multicolored butterflies into the public square” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 216).
That Feeling When It Seems Your Reply Was Satisfactory
The Hellfire Piece: All Christians who experience the resurrection to life will be able endure the judgment, of course, through Christ’s imputed righteousness. These are those who will put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:53-55 is clear about this. But where does Scripture ever indicate that the ungodly, those experiencing the resurrection to judgment, will ALSO …
Keeping Safe Spaces Quiet, Like the Library
“The end result of this sensitivity sham is that we will get—depend upon it—a bunch of ostensibly conservative Christians shushing one another” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 212).
In Defiance of the Schoolmarms
Introduction: I do indeed intend to defy the schoolmarms, but you will pardon me if I take a few minutes to set the whole thing up first. In the twelfth chapter of Acts, just a few verses apart, Luke gives us two instances of the angel of the Lord striking somebody, but with very different …
Book of the Month/December 2018
My choice for this month’s book is Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. It is, in a number of ways, a powerful and moving book. I listened to it through Audible, and as it is read by the author himself, I got an additional sense of closed rhetorical distance—like he was riding around in my truck …