Letter to the Editor: What if you made one of your books to contain a complimentary fake ID, based on a discount code field that only in-the-know people had and that actually makes the price ...
Letters About Our Incipient Criminality
Warning the Wrong People
“What we do need to do is go over the temptations faced by people who live in the proximity of money. Teaching on this is also found in Scripture, but we are not nearly enough on our guard about it. If someone in our congregation received a windfall inheritance of 100 million dollars, the chances are pretty good that this person would receive scores of warnings not to let it go to his head. All the people around that guy will not receive any warnings, and they are the ones who really need it.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 5
And What Money Always Does
“We need to remember that money will do what money always wants to do.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 4
A Biblical Defense of Fake Vaccine IDs
Introduction: It is certainly tempting to simply make the case by saying that a fake pandemic should have fake papers to accompany it, but that would be too easy, far too glib. I already have severe critics who struggle with their tendency to be censorious, and that would frankly not help. So I won’t start …
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Copycatting
“One danger is the obvious one of calling it cultural engagement when we are just drifting along with whatever it is the world is dishing up.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x
Lay Up Before You Lay Out
“The principle is that you should take up the hard task of counting your shekels before undertaking the relatively easy task of spending them.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 2
And One Sees His Point of Course
Changing the Focus
“Our evangelism is not an attempt to helicopter victims out of a disaster area, but rather is the work of rebuilding a disaster area.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x
The Sum of All
“Worshiping God is not a means to another end. Worshiping God is the highest calling that any human being has, or that the entire human race has. It requires no other justification. Whatever we do, it should drive us to this great end. Whatever you do, it should culminate here, in the glorification of God. There is great wisdom in the first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism here. This is our chief end”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. ix
Afghan Travesty
Introduction: The feckless American retreat from Afghanistan needs to be marked down as one of the more remarkable combinations of high hubris and low incompetence ever accomplished. The ...
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