So let me tell you right at the beginning what I think of the ethics of video sting operations (like the #PPSellsBabyParts story from last week). After telling you what I think about it, I want to lay out a biblical case for it. The story caught Planned Parenthood by surprise, along with a bunch …
Review: Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage
Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this many years ago, and have been giving it away in my pre-marital counseling, also for many years. I recently decided I ought to read it again, and was pleased to see that …
Review: The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions by Arthur Bennett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Good. First read it in 2002. Listened to an audio version of it narrated by Max McLean in 2015. That was good too. McLean’s reading is good, although it sometimes borders on creepy. The Puritans …
501(c) That?
One of our responsibilities in these troubled times is to look at the cultural chess board while taking care to think three moves ahead. We need to look at our current conflicts in the light of the year of our Lord 2022. Those who do not anticipate the future are doomed to go through it, …
A Litmus Test
“A man who is wrong about children will find it difficult to be right about anything else” (Rules for Reformers, p. 187).
Spaghetti in the Colander
Brian Prentiss, pastor of Intown in Portland, tried to get his spaghetti, already well boiled and in the colander, to return to the status of stiff and straight in order to get back into the skinny box. But alas, it doth not go. You can read more about it here. First he pretends that the …
Ghouls
By now most of you have seen the video sting of Deborah Nucatola, a high placed operative in Planned Parenthood, discussing PP’s brisk trade in fetal body parts. If you haven’t, the video is embedded below. That video perfectly captures the insolence of our secularist elites. The fact that she could discuss the sale and …
One or the Other
“Do you want to bring up endangered kids or dangerous kids?” (Rules for Reformers, p. 183).
Brief Sexual Catechism 2.0
1. How was mankind created? We were created by God in the image of God, male and female together (Gen. 1:27). 2. Who is the author of marriage? When God presented the first bride, our mother Eve, to Adam, He was establishing the first marriage (Gen. 2:22). 3. After the first marriage, how are marriages …
He Yet Speaks
“A courageous man defending the way reality actually is may of course be killed — but he is still invincible” (Rules for Reformers, pp. 176-177).