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Exhortation for Knox Presbytery 2022
The background for this exhortation is a proposed memorial we will be considering later on, but the general relevance of this exhortation is very much fitted to the times in which we find ourselves. These are the times in which our secularist overlords are striving to impose a humanist cultural homogenization on the entire planet, …
Aiming for Calm Results, No Matter What
“The first is the error of the man who insists we should ‘just preach the Gospel,’ but who also believes intensely that the Gospel can permeate an unbelieving society without throwing that society into cultural upheaval. In order to get the desired calm result, the Gospel that is preached has to be ethereal, otherworldly, and impotent.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 148
On Shaking Off the Christian Nationalism JimJams
Introduction: Let us review the options, shall we? Christian nationalism is the current hot topic, and when confronted with the current hot topic, every sensible person always wants to dip ...
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Letters on a Tuesday. What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Letter to the Editor: Until about 6 years ago I foolishly ascribed to the “religiously neutral” argument. Praise God there are more and more leaving that position every day, and understanding ...
Drag Queens Twerking in the School Library
Introduction: One of the most marked features of our current cultural crack-up has been the disintegration of public trust when it comes to many of our central institutions. The collapse of trust ...
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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