Okay, so today is tax day, and it is time for a little pep talk. Our government is going what governments do best, which is being greedy, grasping, voracious, irresponsible, idiotic, and shrewd. The people on the receiving end of this are doing what they do best, which is complain about it without doing anything …
Not Going to Run Out
Now I have outlined in a previous post the fact that incentives are inescapable. It is not whether finite creatures will have them, but which incentives they will have. They will respond to various incentives according to their nature, according to the moral condition of their heart and head. You cannot lure a hungry horse …
Seventy Two of Them
You get more of what you subsidize, and you get less of what you penalize. This is not just a good idea, it’s the law. Different worldviews do not differ over this law — they differ over what is valued and which we therefore want “more of,” and over what may be justly reckoned as …
Never Want Wherewithal
In my Lord’s Day readings, I came across two comments on generosity and giving that I thought would be edifying to pass on. “Then they took them, and had them to Mount Charity, where they shewed them a man that had a bundle of cloth lying before him, out of which he cut coats and …
Confessing Unbelief
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, we confess to You that the world has not yet …
That Little Head Nod
Just finished a fantastic book on preaching called Why Johnny Can’t Preach. We have to add it to our Greyfriars’ list. It is just superb. Well, mostly superb — he has a few pages on “culture war” that are an odd mixture of astounding insight and barking madness. But that should not be surprising — …
Sell the Car, Champ
Let me begin with a definition of zero-sum thinking with regard to wealth, which I have referred to in this space a number of times. Zero-sum thinking assumes (in unbelief) that the amount of available blessings is necessarily fixed, and that it therefore follows that if one man gets a larger piece of the pie, …
Scandalous Love for Filthy People
We are gathered here in this holy Friday service to commemorate the great moment that remains the salvation of our world—the passion and death of the Lord Jesus. As we mark all the events of the church year, we are of course looking forward to the day of Ascension—the time when Jesus Christ was ushered …
The Right Kind of Antsy
I hope you are getting antsy without getting too antsy. The film is made and distribution is being discussed in the proper quarters. If you go here, and look at the bottom of the page, there is a place to enter your email address so that you will get updates on the release date and …
Why Addiction Isn’t Really
“In other words, the establishment of an addiction requires a certain discipline or determination. It is not something that creeps up on your unnoticed or unannounced or all unawares. As a moment’s reflection would suggest to anyone not blinded by self-interest, this fact has important and profound implications for the very concept of treatment, which …