[From the creation account] “we can see other expressions of sexuality are excluded. A man should not be allowed to marry himself. It is not good that man should be alone (Gen. 2:18). A man should not be allowed to marry multiple wives. God said that He would make a helper suitable to him (Gen. …
Don’t Waste Your White Privilege
Introduction: Allow me to begin by saying that someone really needs to start defending privilege. It needs to be lauded as a good thing, an admirable thing, a blessing from Heaven. If someone doesn’t start defending privilege pretty soon, we could eventually get to the point where a person might be pilloried simply because he …
Origins Define
“If God created the world, put one man and one woman in it, married them to each other, and established that as a pattern for the rest of human history, then marriage should be defined in accordance with that reality. If He did nothing of the kind, and we actually evolved out of the primordial …
A Real Tension
When Pirates Are Powerful
“Some taxes are simply legalized stealing” (Empires of Dirt, p. 218).
Woke Sisters
One of the more important things my father taught me was always to act, “never react.” Now because we are creatures, we must react at some level, most notably in simple obedience to God and His Word. We are not autonomous beings, but rather creatures who are responsible to respond in appropriate ways. But if …
Moses and the Modern World
Last September I posted a piece called “The Death Penalty as Our Only Hope.” As a result of that I got into a brief Facebook exchange with Joel McDurmon on some of the issues involved. As it happens we are planning to continue that discussion this afternoon on Iron Sharpens Iron. In the spirit of …
More, More, More from the Mailbag
Rage on a Short Tether: 2 Kings 19:20-21,27-28 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him . . . But I know where you are and when you come and go and …
That’s Our Thing, Actually
“Look. Christians believe the Bible invented free societies. Secularists who worry about fundamentalist Christians sneaking in to spy out their liberties are like a prodigal son buying drinks for the house while secretly worrying that his father will break into his room that night in order to steal all his money” (Empires of Dirt, p. …
An E-Book on the Apostles’ Creed Now Available . . .
A new book of comments, notes and observations on the Apostles’ Creed is now available in the Mablog Store, with the link here. The Creed is a model of brevity, but it is amazing how much truth was compressed into it. It is sort of an early church zip file. This small book is designed …