Title: The New Testament, American Standard Version Author: The Holy Spirit Publisher: Amazon Digital Release Date: 2014 Of course you don’t evaluate Scripture when you are done reading through it the way you can do with other books. But you can evaluate translations. My base translation is the KJV, but I frequently alternate with other …
Pairing
Hidden in Plain Sight
“There are certain moves, certain strategies, certain plans, certain ways of thinking, that are God’s version of the purloined letter. God hides some of His best work in plain sight. So should we” (Rules, p. 91).
The After Deck of the Pirate Ship
Whenever I write on things like liberty and taxes, it is easy for some to try to stuff me into the wrong box. And upon my making this objection, some might expect me to go on to say that I hate labels. But actually I love labels, which are the precondition of all honest discourse. …
Three Senators and a Leper
One of our great cultural problems today is that Christians do not understand civics. And by civics, I do not mean the “how a bill becomes a law” kind of civics, but rather I refer to our very common misunderstanding of the true nature of our appointed government. We have a particular form of government …
One Last Push
If you are coming to the Grace Agenda this year, we are looking forward to seeing you later this week. If you can’t make it, we would appreciate your prayers. About 600 are signed up, and we are pretty jazzed about it. And in case you missed this, the weekend is starting off Thursday night …
The Last Kingdom
Title: The Last Kingdom Author: Bernard Cornwell Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: January 3, 2006 Pages: 368 In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate …
Ukraine #5
So as I wrap up my discussion of issues surrounding Ukraine, I want to do three things, which I will take in the standard order of 1,2,and 3. First I want to provide a handful of links (from various sane perspectives) to help illustrate how much this is like trying to unscramble a pan full …
Apparently Not
Shambolic and Petty Despotism
A month or so ago, I wrote about Roy Moore and Russell Moore, and the article got a lot of traction. In addition to the traffic of people reading it, I also got a few people contacting me personally with various objections. What I wanted to do here is give a quick checklist kind of …