Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Aimee’s Book: Discuss Among Yourselves: Concerning your ongoing review of Aimee Byrd’s book, I find myself wondering whether she’s going to address the question of what the spouses, fathers, brothers, etc., will think of all this dining out alone with other peoples’ wives, or your secretary, etc. Do they just get told to stop judging …
“There is nothing more unworthy than to see a people bold to sin, and the preacher afraid to reprove them” (William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, p. 62).
“In the long run, moral stupidity is never workable. The rebellion against limits is to create for yourself the ultimate authority of the utter frozen limit. Hatred of creational limits is to embrace the final limits imposed by the outer darkness. The process ends hellishly, and is recognizable early on” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 86-87).
Introduction: So let us discuss some profiles in profiling. Suppose that some bank in our area was robbed by a Caucasian guy, around 6 foot 1 or so, brown hair and beard, and it also happened that he was driving a pick-up truck. Now let us suppose further that as the cops were scrambling all …
Introduction: God has given us eyes to see with and, even with a mirror, it can be difficult to look at them. The same thing is true—and in spades—when it comes to the eyes of our soul. We use these eyes to look at absolutely everything . . . except the act of ourselves, looking. …
Given the grace and goodness of God the Father in giving us the sacrifice of Jesus, and given the work of the Holy Spirit in the gospel offer to all men, the only sin that is damnable is the sin of perpetual hardheartedness—the sin of rejecting grace, and willfully remaining in unbelief. The wrath of …
“Since it has been established by the Supremes that homosexual mirage is a constitutionally protected activity, please outline for me what legal argument(s) you will use to defend my constitutional right to argue publicly from the pulpit that their constitutional right must be taken away” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 84-5).
“This battle is over social and cultural approval. The battle is happening because a particular class of persons wants their sexual perversion to be their ticket into the high nobility of the civil rights movement—what they want is for the march to be from Selma to Sodom, not realizing it then proceeds from Sodom to …
“Caesar identifies his own with his image; God identifies His own with His image. Caesar is therefore required by God to recognize what is not lawful for him to have. Marriage is right at the center of what is not lawful for him to have” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 71).
