“Humility is a low door into a high Heaven. Narrow is the pass, broad is the mountain meadow” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 7).
Donors, Dollars, and Decisions: Seven Principles
A recent conversation with a friend prompted me to rake together in a small pile some of the thoughts I have developed over the years on the subject of the kind of decisions that donors need to make. What principles ought to guide those decisions? If you take the phrase tithes and offerings, I am …
Narrow, Not Pinched
“The truth is narrow, but the truth is never sectarian, or to be thought of as the cheat codes for a mystery religion . . . The way is narrow, Jesus taught, but that narrow pass opens out into a glorious mountain valley, lush and green, and teeming with game. We do not embrace that …
The Mailbag Was Full of Letters
An Important Note: My ministry colleagues here at Grace Church and Grace to You at last have an official and absolutely complete version of the ShepCon Panel Q&A Of Note posted. Perhaps you’d be willing to amend your articleto reflect this? Grace and peace to you, brother. Bill Bill, thanks. And we will post this …
To Be Imitated
“Some things are shallow because they are broad, like rain water on the parking lot. Other things are deep because they are narrow, like the sliver of a crevasse that you can jump across at the top. But some things are deep because they are broad, like the roots of the Rocky Mountains” (Mere Fundamentalism, …
Gather Round, My Children, for I Would Tell You the Tale of Robert Mueller
Gather round, my children, for I would ‘splain something to you. Over the last week or so, in the aftermath of the delivery of the Mueller report, there has been a great deal of jubilant jollity in some quarters and tearful turbulence in others. Trump supporters have been out in the streets dancing, followed immediately …
And Og, King of Bashan . . .
“Everything in Scripture is equally true, but not everything is equally important. The fact that Jesus rose from the dead is more important than the fact that He went to Capernaum—although both are equally true” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 3).
Best Practices
Words Everywhere
“The Scriptures are given to us in words, and interpretations of those words arrive packaged in words. If God can’t make Himself clear to me in the book that He wrote, how can I expect that fallible (or purportedly infallible) humans can do so . . . More about this anon, as I would have …
The Acid Test
“The only RCs and EOs worth teaming up with in any venture are the ones who don’t mind a Protestant being one” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 179).