The apostle Paul was a strategic thinker. He understood the concept of a “decisive point,” which is a point in the enemy’s line which is simultaneously stratetgic and feasible. No sense attacking places that cannot be taken. No sense taking places which make absolutely no difference to the battle whether or not you take them. …
Tota Scriptura
“Systematic theology is nothing less than remembering what you read in other passages while you are reading this passage. The kind of thing that gives systematic theology a bad name is remembering what you thought other passages said, privileging them in some sort of special pleading, and making the verse in front of you do …
More or Less
“The Bible says that Jesus taught with authority, and not like the scribadiddles” (Against the Church, p. 52).
Whores for Purity
After two days wind-surfing the zeitgeist, World Vision went ploosh in the water. They had announced a couple of days ago that they were reversing their policy and would now hire people who were tangled up in same-sex mirages, and that they were not doing this in response to any pressure. Not a bit of …
Which Is Rude
“When we commune with God in this divine conversation, the first lesson is that of how to stop finishing His sentences for Him” (Against the Church, p. 49).
Seven Key Facts About the Pomosexual Revolt
Facebook recently decided to let people configure their profile with an available list of any number of genders. For them to publish a master list of the available options would obviously be way too confining, but one estimate puts the available options at 58 or so. One example is cisgender, a word for someone who, …
For Millions of Dogs
The average reader of this blog no doubt knows already what the proprietor — putting myself quaintly in the third person — thinks of Obamacare. He thinks it is a dog’s breakfast for millions of dogs. He thinks it is a smoking heap of legislative slag. He thinks it is a misbegotten travesty, a landfill …
More Than the Sum of Parts
“The church is nothing without individual conversions, but the church is not nothing but individual conversions” (Against the Church, p. 47).
Why Nature Is Necessary
Let’s clear a few things out in the first paragraph. Nature is nature, which seems obvious enough, but less obvious is that nature has a nature. The grain of the natural order runs in a particular way. It is not amorphous goo that can be shaped by any volunteer demiurge that happens by. It is …
Making Bricks and Mortar Stronger
One of the exciting things that Logos Online is doing is creating video classes that can serve bricks and mortar schools. The online revolution as an educational resource is not just for home-schoolers. A day school can supplement the curriculum this way as well. Click here for a video clip sampler. Logos Online School …