Please consider this a most important update. I would like to commend this article from The Federalist to you all. Over the last week or so, one of my criticisms of Southern has been the way in which Matthew Hall’s statements were scrubbed –without explanation or comment. In this article, Mohler explains how they were …
Sorting the Mail as Best We Can
Letter to the Editor: You speak of sorcery as the short cut to gain the benefits of obedience without the obedience itself, and that seems very apt. But I also can't help but think ...
The Way It Is
“A garden of grace can contain a tree of law. A garden of law cannot contain a tree of grace”
Like a Gelatinous Pudding
Introduction: In the New Testament, obedience is a good word. Also in the New Testament, works is not, unless it is modified with a word like good. We are called to good works (Titus 2:7), but ...
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Poor Pairing
“It is the easiest thing in the world to find a moral standard in the Bible and then to be selfish with it”
You Know How It Is
Rigorous Grace
“The environment of your home should be full of grace. When you have a home filled with grace, it is not without standards. You are not introducing moral anarchy. Grace is not an amorphous, gelatinous mass. Grace has a backbone. However, when the standards are broken, the heaviest sacrifices in the work of restoration are made by the guardians of grace, not by enforcers of the law, finger-pointers, parental accusers, or people who correct in a nasal tone of self-pity”
Necessary Song
“If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice. Without a song, it is a poor-me, look-at-the-martyr-go sacrifice, and those kinds of sacrifices have a very poor return”
Like a Float for the Tournament of Roses
Introduction: One of the men in that Founders trailer said something like this. “If we can take a clear passage that says ‘I do not permit a woman to teach” and turn it into something like ‘I ...
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Southern Baptist Letters
A warm Tuesday greeting to all of you Blogtonians. One of the things we have learned lately is that many people are interested in what is happening in the Southern Baptist Convention. Not only so, but they write letters about it.