Since our liberated era is busy gearing up for the Valentine’s Day release (!) of 50 Shades, a celebration of misogyny by people who think they know better, I thought I should repost a couple of links. One is to my HuffPo piece on this whole travesty called 50 Shades of Prey. The other is …
Call It What It Is
“For example, they want to write off all social conservatives as throwback Puritans, with crabbed, pinched faces, worrying desperately that somewhere, somebody called that number on the bathroom wall, and is having a good time. The answer is to cultivate a sunny Calvinism, a Chestertonian Calvinism. Chesterton himself would of course be annoyed at my …
Until Someone Unsettles It
The creation account in Genesis is read in different ways. It would be easy therefore, to jump right into the Genesis text and show that I read it in one of those different ways. I do read it in one of those different ways, and bringing out arguments accordingly would be easy. Before getting to …
Book of the Month: February 2015
The choice for this month is Living Zealously by Joel Beeke and James La Belle. This is one of those rare books which, having finished, I think I am going to start over reading again. Lewis once said about courage that it was not so much a separate virtue as it was the testing point …
Close Enough
Basic Principles in Financing the Kingdom
We all know what the uh oh point is in various situations. The person you thought might be a new good friend invites you over for a business opportunity presentation. Uh oh. The church gets in a financial jam and “stewardship Sunday” seems to come round more and more frequently. Uh oh. But the point …
By Saying “Boo!” For Example
“Jesus tells us to rejoice when we are slandered, because, He says, our reward is great in Heaven. But there is another reason to rejoice. There are many times, particularly with the issues that swirl around in our culture wars, when these slanders arise, not from our enemy’s malice, but from their fears. Instead of …
Quick Takes on the Republican Field
I would like to get my observations in now because as soon as anything real — anything beyond media speculation — starts happening, the massive Republican field of contenders will be much smaller, yay, and yet it will then be too late to make some of these observations. The silent primary, going on now, has …
Obstacles to Financing the Kingdom
The goal here is not to get into household finances, but rather the financing of the work of the kingdom of God. This relates to household finances at some point, obviously, but the purpose here is to address finances at the kingdom level. The amount of material on this subject in the Bible is simply …
A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
Title: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons Author: John A. Broadus Genre: Religion Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: September 26, 1979 Pages: 368 Fully revised edition of the classic guide to the art of homiletics incorporates recent helpful developments in the field. Very fine book. I didn’t read this edition, but rather a very …