“I am not bound to accept a prophetic utterance from a charismatic friend the same way I am bound to believe the book of Romans.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 45
And There You Have It
“There is no way to maintain that the revelatory gifts are ongoing without jeopardizing the integrity of the canon of Scripture. If the word given is a Word from God, and if we believe that it is, then we must treat it as though it is.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 44
His Blood Be Upon Us and Our Children
Dear Ehud, And now we have come to a short parenthetical topic. This is one that I wanted to address shortly after the earlier letter I wrote about Christ as the Prophet, the prophet "like unto ...
Nature Can Be Spooky
“We are often tempted to say that some things are supernatural simply because we do not know how far nature actually goes.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 43
Letters, High and Inside
Letter to the Editor: I’m interested in your practical advice for husbands on handling disagreement with their wives. How can a husband firmly disagree, correct, or push back on something ...
No Ambiguity
“What holy word does God speak into a sinful religious world? He says not to bow down before an image in religious devotion.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 40
On Bringing Things to a Marital Head
Dear Tyler, It was good to meet you at the wedding last weekend, and thank you for the follow-up email. It really filled out the details of your situation. I am glad that your cousin Jill is doing well, and it is ironic that you are facing a comparable situation, only with the sexes reversed. …
The American Ethnicity
Introduction: Before defining the boundaries of the American tribe, the American ethnos, we must first decide if there is even anything there to be defined. Is there such a thing as an American, or ...
Religious Liberty Is a Religious Value
My comments at the Grace Agenda pre-func men’s conference. Introduction: One of the downsides of our failure to recognize that secularism functions as a religion is that as a consequence we fail to recognize that secularism as a system gives birth to certain values that are in fact religious values. One such value would be …
A Most Convenient Breeze
“The inconsistent Christian writes articles for academic journals explaining how it turns out that the Scriptures, rightly understood, were all along saying just what the latest breeze from off the Zeitgeist Bay would seem to indicate they ought to have been saying.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 35