Theology That Bites Back
We had a grand time this November, one that lapped last November. Not only that, but it actually lapped all the previous Novembers put together. The most telling metric would be all the giveaways. My little Mablog Shoppe is something of a little putt putt operation, but last year we were able to give away …
“We want the world to become Christian the way the devil offered to make it Christian, if only Jesus would bow down and worship him. But God works a different calculus, and He had His only-begotten Son hanged on a gibbet instead. What was He doing? He was making the world Christian, but He was doing it His way and on His timetable. But He was making the world Christian (John. 12:31). Jesus, by and through His death, cast out the prince of this world. And, by the way, in the original Greek “cast out” does not mean “kept around.”
Letter to the Editor: "Was Chamberlain a long-suffering saint, or was he an appeaser—to use Churchill’s metaphor, a man who throws others to the alligators, hoping to be the last one ...
“But one of our current problems is that we are a convenience store civilization, and we want the next iteration of our civilization to be obtainable the same way we get coffee at the convenience store. We want to plonk our two dollars on the counter and walk out of there with the coffee.”
Introduction: If I might, I would like to introduce another metric to help us understand our social and cultural and political landscape, the landscape that is disintegrating all around us. This ...
“When nothing grows up but troubles, we are called to become trouble farmers, and to sell our crop at a tidy profit.”
Introduction: The task before us is far more comprehensive than spot cleaning our cultural carpet. The West has more problems than a stubborn stain here or there. We stare at the carpet, thinking ...
“We cannot pray for the purification of the silver, and then despair when we begin to approach the furnace that removes the dross.”
“We were taught to pray that the kingdom would come to earth, not that the kingdom would float off into the sky. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Not Thy will be done in Heaven when we get there.”
Mere Christendom, p, 240
