“But remember, the fruit—which Christ required for identifying the nature of a tree—is way out on the edges of the tree and is at the farthest point away from the root. We must recover the understanding that peripherals are central because the center is important. The root is the most important, and is central, and …
Of the Crowds, By the Crowds, For the Crowds
A commonplace assumption says that the crowds of Palm Sunday—those welcoming Christ into Jerusalem—and the crowds in front of Pilate shouting “crucify Him!” were made up of the same people. This is a common preacher’s trope, enabling them to enlarge on the fickleness of the heart of man. But there is absolutely no reason for …
Everything Matters
“Everything is connected. Everything matters. Nonsense tolerated anywhere will metastasize, and the results are always ugly” (Writers to Read, p. 25).
Repentance Made Vile
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19). Repentance is a gift that can be given to individuals, but it is not limited to that. When reformation and revival break out, and it the genuine …
Review: Advise and Consent
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book one other time, many decades ago, probably in high school or when I was in the Navy. All I remembered about it was that I had read it once, and that it was a political novel about a Senate …
Not Worth the Candle
Bojidar has replied to my reply here. After reading over his latest, I want to say just three quick things before hitting the road. For any number of reasons, I see no real future in this discussion. All I want my three points to do is show that if there were ever a future in …
Not Enough Apparently
Earthy or Worldly?
“We affirm a fundamental creational loyalty to the world and constantly thwart the world’s desire to become disloyal to itself. This is why it is good to be earthy and bad to be worldly. Worldliness is just a clever way of deserting the world. This is the explanation of why worldliness is so consistently weary …
Just the Facts, Ma’am
Bojidar Marinov has a little fun with me here, wishing that I would become more of a plagiarist than he pretends to believe I already am. He wishes that in my Dirty Cops post I had plagiarized from an article he wrote about the Brown and Garner cases. However, after thinking about it deeply, and …
Ordinary Loyalty
“Modern man, progressive man, has an insatiable lust to interfere with the ordinary things. He strives to become superman and only succeeds in erasing ordinary men” (Writers to Read, p. 24).