Yes, Miss Triggs
The Central Paradigm Shift
“The point of preaching is never to make Christ acceptable. But in a man-centered era, this is automatically thought to be the task of the preacher—somehow making God acceptable to man. The problem that confronts us in the Bible is actually quite different. The real problem is one of sin, and how to make sinful man acceptable to a holy God. The solution, which made holy angels stop their mouths, was the Incarnation, Cross, and Resurrection. That is how sinners are made acceptable to God.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 145
Wedding As Adornment
Dear Darla, I hear from Nancy via your mother that Trent has proposed, and that you have accepted. So good job, everybody. Now we’re talking. If you will permit me just one more short letter, ...
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When the Bland Lead the Bland, They Both Fall for a Pitch
“George Whitefield once said that the churches of his time were dead because dead men preached to them. We may expand the observation. The churches are effeminate because effeminate men with wireless mics stroll around platforms chatting with the congregants. The churches are leaderless because we are nervous about prophetic preaching and settle instead for bland and balanced leadership teams. The churches have no sense of the numinous because men refuse to preach the greatness and glory of the living God.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 144
Pesky Pronouns
Letters Come Round Again, Once More, and Again Redundantly
Letter to the Editor: I’ve been following you and Christ Church for a few years now, and my Christian walk has benefited from your teachings, along with your wife and daughter’s books. ...
Chicken and Egg Culture
[Regarding Eph. 6:1-4] “So we have ourselves a chicken and egg problem. The fact that Paul commands fathers to begin a Christian process of enculturation means that he saw, with the eye of faith, the end result, which would have to be a Christian culture.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 141
Don’t Waste Your Fifteen Minutes
Introduction: Andy Warhol once famously said that in the future everybody was going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. If you make the second and third rounds, as we here in Moscow have done a few times, a predictable thing then happens. What happens is that if the critics were puppies and kittens, all …
Why, Yes
Christian Nationalism and the Nation State, Part 2
Introduction: While I do believe that Constantine's conversion to Christianity was sincere, my argument below does not depend on such sincerity. But it does depend upon him seeing in Christianity ...