Theology That Bites Back
Dear Dawson, Thanks for contacting me. I actually wasn’t that surprised to hear from you, but I was perhaps a little surprised at how much detail you were able to provide. You have clearly done your homework, and I am glad you are working through these issues. You are clearly taking things seriously. Dealing with …
“Decadent cultures are sensate cultures, and they want distractions. They want to be impressed with things like the halftime at the Super Bowl—which for a thoughtful person resembles something from Dante’s third circle.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 139
Letter to the Editor: Speaking of wuss-supremacy . . . I am in the PCA in the St. Louis area. In fact, I served as a RE on a Presbytery “Complaint Review Committee” regarding Revoice. ...
Introduction: You might be tempted to think that we live in a time when all sorts of things have busted out all over. You know—riots, woke churches, COVID, masking orders, a rumored new album ...
“He who preaches to the inner life of others must himself have had an inner life.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 196
“There have been churches where the organist thinks that God will be most honored if he, the organist, shows up with pink slippers with tassels on them. There is a toney, nose-in-the-air, tall steeple, moneyed attitude that is, as far as the Holy Spirit is concerned, just another thing that the cat drug in.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 138
“Christian worship ought to be familial and reverent, which is quite a different thing than the very common ‘come as you are’ approach, the come to church in your jammies approach . . . The triune God really ought to be worshiped with more than one or two chords.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, pp. 137-138
“Our lives are a mist, a vapor, a bit of cloud in the mountains.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 135
Introduction: Our nation has been more greatly blessed than any other nation in the history of the world, and this helps to explain why we consume such a gargantuan amount of antidepressants. ...
