Introduction: Okay, and what comes after this? What sin comes next? The sin of loving Jesus? Yes, the title is certainly provocative, at least in some quarters. But this merely highlights ...
The Sin of Servant Leadership
Keeping a Lid on Caesar
“If there is no God above Caesar, then how do we keep Caesar from declaring himself god? Not only so, but because as god he answers to no one, this means there is no such thing as ethics. There is no authority over him to which he must defer. And if that is the case, then everybody under him must defer to him—and he could well be an erratic or ill-tempered or insane god with bad digestion. And does anybody really want a god with a bad temper who is capable of toothaches or migraines?”
Two Kinds of Hard
“Maturity means growing up into greater difficulty. So fourth grade is more difficult than third grade, and eighth grade is more difficult than fourth grade, and graduate school is more difficult than eighth grade. What happens when you don’t do well? Well, there too, life gets harder. But it gets harder in a different way.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 43
Letters During Noahic Covenant Awareness Month
Yesterday a Canon Press email went out that highlighted a discussion I had with Jared Longshore about my recent book Sounds FV . The ad copy said that "the [FV] band's getting back together," ...
Coercion and a Clean Conscience
“Before fining someone, or flogging him, or putting him in jail, or exiling him, or executing him, which pretty much exhausts the options, we had better know that what we are doing is authorized by God. If it is, well and good. If it is not, then we are abusing someone created in the image of God, and God is going to hold us accountable for it. We should either coerce with a clean conscience (and an open Bible) or not at all.”
Pleased, But Not Satisfied
“Children arrive immature. God has us start out as immature babies on purpose. And parents can be very pleased with an immature child. However, parents should not be satisfied with an immature child. He’s right where he’s supposed to be—but the parents should be overseeing and teaching and nourishing him so that he grows up out of that.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 42
Smashmouth Compromise?
Introduction: A week or so ago, Bibledingers hosted another debate on abolitionism versus smashmouth incrementalism. This one involved four of us—Joe Rigney was together with me, and T. Russell ...
Book of the Month/June 2025
Okay, this book is not a popular-level page turner, but if you are interested in the subject, as I suspect a bunch of you are, it serves very well as a scholarly page turner. The book is The Hebrew Republic by Eric Nelson, and the subtitle gives a bunch of the game away. That subtitle …
Hellish Logic
“This is the logic of Hell. This is the reason our civilization is coming apart. It’s a demand to break free from everything objective and outside of self; it’s a demand, in effect, to make reality optional. That’s the real message behind all the signs at all the protests that support the spirit of the age. If you see a furry protest, or a feminist protest, or a queers-for-a-free-Palestine protest, then be assured that every sign they carry could easily be replaced with a sign that reads ‘Make reality optional.’ That is what they want.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 36
Another Binary Choice
“The solution is too turn back to Jesus—not simply in our hearts, although it must begin there, but to do so on the steps of the county courthouse. When it comes down to it, there is fundamentally a basic choice. Either we will have a nativity set there with Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus, two cows, a goat, and a drummer boy, or we will have two (or more) homosexuals holding up their marriage license for the photographers.”