“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 …
A Very Brief Summary
By “emergent,” I do not refer to those who have fallen away from the faith entirely. We have always had apostates. By emergent I mean those who want to retain some kind of recognizable connection to the evangelical movement, but who want to do the hep cat thing. The emergents are kids from the junior …
This Era of Obummer
I have mentioned more than once that Christians need to get up to speed on certain economic principles in this era of Obummer. If we do not, then we will discover, as we have been discovering, that he can commit ten economic fallacies at trillion dollar levels while we are all standing around his first …
Sins Are Like Grapes
Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches. This explains two things that often mystify parents or teachers, but allow me to explain. Often a child gets into a blue funk, bad attitude, the works. Demeanor surly, nothing helps, you know the drill. This can be seen most clearly in little children, who do not …
Stand on the Resurrection to See the Resurrection
When Jesus set His face to go to Jerusalem, He knew that He was going to be betrayed, scourged, crucified, and buried. And when He had suffered what man was going to do to Him, He was fully prepared for what God was going to do for Him—raise Him from the dead. That resurrection was …
Image and Spectacle
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 modern world is in …
To His Own Master/Palm Sunday 2009
INTRODUCTION: We have many times addressed how much we need to learn how to define our days in Christian terms. The salvation that Jesus Christ brought to the world was a public salvation. He was crucified in the public square, and His resurrection was not done in secret. Connected to this, we have to recognize …
Qualifications or Requirements?
Just a few more brief comments, and we can move on. Thanks to Lane for his reply on Venema’s definition of soft paedocommunion. On 1 Cor. 10:17, my point is that it doesn’t matter how you translate it — the basic point remains the same. If the loaf is the body (KJV), then all who …
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Bear
I would take a photo out my window of the snow storm that is pounding us here, but enemies of the gospel of global cooling would think I had photoshopped it. This is a crisis. We clearly need to hand over unlimited power now to government bureaucrats and regulators, not to mention faceless international functionaries, …
The Refusal of Bread to Bread
Lane has responded to me here. Just a couple of things, and I am ready to move on to Venema’s next chapter. First, Lane has not yet responded to whether or not Venema would consider him a soft paedocommunionist. It seems to me that according to the definitions, that is the way it would have …