โThe end result of this sensitivity sham is that we will getโdepend upon itโa bunch of ostensibly conservative Christians shushing one anotherโ (Same Sex Mirage, p. 212).
๏ปฟIn Defiance of the Schoolmarms
Introduction: I do indeed intend to defy the schoolmarms, but you will pardon me if I take a few minutes to set the whole thing up first. In the twelfth chapter of Acts, just a few verses apart, Luke gives us two instances of the angel of the Lord striking somebody, but with very different …
Stop Letting Them Drive
โIf you donโt want to go where they are going, donโt let them have control of your language. One of the most remarkable thing about our current imbroglios is how readily Christians cede control over their language to the adversary. You are being steeredโ (Same Sex Mirage, p. 211).
๏ปฟIn Hell Where They Already Have It
Introduction: The title comes from an old line of Ronald Reaganโs, where he said, โSocialism only works in two places: Heaven whereย theyย don’tย need itย and hell where they already have it.โ Let that suffice for a rudimentary introduction, setting both tone and direction. So Lay the Axe at the Root: Socialism is, at root, not a math …
My Necktie?
To Make Things Microbetter
โThe best response to microaggressions should be a good dose of microcaringโ (Same Sex Mirage, p. 207).
November 33rd
Due to pacing problems on my part, I was not able to get everything posted that I intended to get to this November. I have three more posts to submit on this run, and so here is how I propose we do it. Tomorrow’s will be the last post in ordinary November. This is to …
In Praise of America๏ปฟ
Introduction: If you canโt say something positive, then donโt say anything at all. Thatโs what I always say. I mean to say, the world is so full of criticism and carping . . . why canโt we just accentuate the positive? Focus on what is good. Try to emphasize the delightful. As Paul once put …
Civilized Fighting
โI do believe in rules for polemical discourse. I believe that a biblical approach to it allows us to hit hard and above the belt. But God defines for us where the belt isโ (Same Sex Mirage, p. 205).
I Am Not Even Sure He Cared . . .
โNever forget that being Jesus-like with the woman caught in adultery and being Jesus-like with the men who all had rocks in their hands is experienced by those two kinds of people in very different ways. โAnd beginning with the eldest, they departed one by one. And Shamuel said to Jonathan the elder as they …