Letter to the Editor: What principles can we put into practice when it comes to Sabbath rest? Specifically when it comes to recreation. It seems obvious that a calm walk around the ...
Letters in the Ides of March
Almost Gone Already
“Come now, ye big movers and shakers—you don’t know that your entire life is a little wisp of fog by the side of the road at seven a.m. that will be gone in forty-five minutes, as soon as the sun gets over the trees.”
Every Time You Let Go of the Wheel
“The spirit in us veers toward envy, like the front end of a car that needs to be aligned.”
Yeah, Well . . .
The Devil in Disguise
“The devil is a moralist. The devil is self-righteous. The devil is an angel of light. The name Lucifer means light-bearer. Who could be against that? The devil is censorious. The devil disapproves of us and likes it when we disapprove of one another. The devil is a Pharisee. The devil is the accuser of the brethren, accusing them day and night before the throne (Rev. 12:10). And this means we should be far more concerned than we usually are about the danger of becoming like the devil. It is easier than it looks because it is far nobler than it sounds.”
One of the Great Miracles
“Remember the perfections of Jesus, and marvel at this crowning perfection—the fact that He was not totally exasperated all the time, in every conversation He ever had.”
What Makes Satan’s Factories Hum
“Preaching a propitiatory sacrifice is something that disrupts the way of the world. It unhinges how the world works. It gets in the way; it jams the signal. It cuts of the power that makes all the machinery in Satan’s factories hum so nicely.”
Halcyon Letters for Halcyon Times
Letter to the Editor: I have a question regarding communion. I am part of a church that was baptist for many years before switching over to covenant theology, including paedobaptism but not ...
Going On All the Time
“This is the kind of thing have when you have two men, the best of friends, calling in love with the same girl. It happens when you have twin brothers wanting the favor or blessing of their father or the rule of the city. It happens when one church is enormously blessed where the other church across town ‘should have been.’”
A Theology of Slut Walks
A great deal can be learned if we just take the effort to make sense out of things that make no sense. Of course, we can never make sense of the nonsensical, by definition, but we can learn why things that make no sense are nonetheless happening. Every absurd conclusion is, at some level, a …