“There is a pitfall that some have fallen into, the mistake of trying to have faith in their own faith. Sure, and so let’s not do that. Blind men healed should look to Jesus, and then at the world. They should spend very little time trying to look at their own eyeballs. You look with …
Gautama and the Ant War
It has been a while, I might note, since I have worked through a book, chapter-by-chapter. Even though no one has been clamoring for it, they ought to have been, and so here I am with another one. The book I have selected was just released by HarperOne, and is N.T. Wright’s latest — Surprised …
A Sublime Disrespect
“The Wind blows where He wishes and is not bottled up by anything whatever that we can do — whether we are talking about decision cards or baptismal fonts. Understanding this is a function of basic piety, and we have countless passages in Scripture that reinforce this reality by talking about things like sacrifices, sacraments, …
A Very Great Miracle
“When we are born again, a dramatic miracle happens. When we are born again, we are being turned into people” (Against the Church, p. 133).
Inviso-Bricks Unlimited
In Citizens United, the Supreme Court decided in effect that corporations didn’t have to be newspapers or networks in order to have First Amendments protections. This outraged the Left, which adores free speech if it involves stripping nekkid in a Manhattan theater, covering yourself with chocolate syrup and sprinkles, the better to facilitate one’s very …
Where He Writes What He Wills
“If God can quicken and glorify stone by writing on it with His own finger, then how much more will human hearts be glorified, quickened, made alive, and regenerated when the finger of God, the Holy Spirit Himself, writes on them? What is it to be born again? It is to become the Holy Spirit’s …
The Killer Rabbit Phase
I want to say something that is spiraling off the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap, but also need to make a quick comment about the issue itself. Some might assume that I have an inside track or something, because Bergdahl is from a Reformed background, and he is also from southern Idaho, and I am up …
Guilt and Glory
Mankind was made for glory, and naturally hungers after glory. There is therefore nothing wrong with seeking glory, provided we seek it where the true glory may be found. “Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours” (1 Cor. 3:21). Paul is saying that when glory is offered us in Christ …
Knowing When to Say When
“He has backslidden badly, and is utterly miserable, but still in that frame of mind where he is trying to shout down his regenerate misery in a flurry of cocaine and floozies. Cocaine is in there because ‘flurry of floozies’ would be way too much, even for a writer like me” (Against the Church, p. …
A Lifting Up for the Downcast
Title: A Lifting Up for the Downcast Author: William Bridge Publisher: Banner of Truth Release Date: 1649, 1979 Pages: 288 A marvelous book. I have been chipping away at this book for some time, using a page or two of it as a quarry for my weekly meditations on the Lord’s Supper. My reason for …