Theocracy n’Stuff: Well put, Pastor Doug, especially your conclusion: “God is being kind to us, and He is doing it in such a way as to preclude boasting on our part.” The word picture you created in your prior post along these same lines about no conservative Christian wanting to be photographed with Pres Trump …
One and Many
“The hierarchies are ranked differently—they are not all the same. The Lord wants about half of his children to be husbands and the other half to be wives. He wants some to love classical music and others to love music from the Delta. He wants them all to hate abortion and child porn. He wants …
Already Baked In
Introduction: The Wall Street Journal has established that it was likely that Donald Trump had a fling with a porn star a few years back, and that she was paid a tidy sum to keep her mouth shut about it. But as far as I can tell, the story has caused barely a ripple. Even …
And No One Knows How They Got There
But It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
“We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside …
The Latest Scientific Consensus
“If a public policy screecher began demanding that we all start rationing salt water because the planet Earth (which is our only home) was about to run completely out, and that many leading theologians agreed with this (and they would too), and that they offered their agreement in the name of the Lord Jesus, and …
Until You Can See the Marble Pattern of the Counter Through It
“I would like to borrow a metaphor from Warfield and apply it to the phrase ‘the lordship of Christ.’ In the hands of liberals, the lordship of Christ is like pie dough—the farther you spread it, the thinner it gets” (Empires of Dirt, p. 124).
Theocracy and the Tijuana Brass
Introduction: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Gospel Coalition and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission are holding a conference in April to commemorate it (MLK50: Reflections from the Mountaintop). Anticipating the conference, earlier this week Russell Moore took the opportunity of MLK day to write …
A Difficult Imagine
“Imagine trying to prove from the Bible that God wants rulers, especially Christian ones, to pretend that He doesn’t exist—to pretend in public that they don’t know Him” (Empires of Dirt, p. 123).
People Love Writing Tomes About Theocracy
Russell Moore & Theocracy: Sir, I read Russell Moore’s article regarding theocracy that you linked to, and I am a bit aghast. How can anyone who has read the Bible make any such blanket and universal condemnation against theocracy in any and every form (i.e., his critique “also is true of every theocracy.”)? Does Mr. …