Category: Engaging the Culture

“Many conservative Christians who are concerned about the state of our nation are fearful of judgment in the simpler sense. They believe that if we do not turn from the course we are on, at some future date we will fall under the judgment of God. Almost no one sees that we already have fallen under His judgment.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 266

“If a certain modern doctrinal assumption is to be believed, God had an olive tree in the Old Testament, but He chopped it down in the first century and now watches over a second tree He planted, which is a peach tree.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 262

“In the light of history, to insist that Paul served grape juice at the Lord’s Supper is as silly as maintaining that he wore a necktie.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 259

“The classical Protestant, when asked where his church was before the Reformation, replies by asking, ‘Where was your face before you washed it?’”

The Cultural Mind, p. 258

“When it becomes apparent that the food on the table is still there after we open our eyes from saying grace, we should close them again to thank Him again.”

The Cultural Mind, pp. 254-255

“If I am the end product of atoms careening through a mindless universe, there is no one to whom I may show my gratitude, and yet my ethical need to be grateful is genuine. There, there is a God, and I thank Him for the green hills I saw yesterday.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 254