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Category: Engaging the Culture

In Fact, It Usually Works Worse

Posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Telepathy in marriage doesn’t work any better than it does anywhere else” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 111).

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

Honoring His Stuff

Posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 6 comments

A friend pointed me to an important truth about property and giving that is found in Deuteronomy 26. “And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God: And thou …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsThe Good of AffluenceWealth and the Christian

Cousins

Posted on Friday, August 9, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 7 comments

These are my remarks for the NSA Convocation 2013 Just over a decade ago, I spoke at convocation, much as I am doing now, and gave a mock convocation address for the year 2022, now just nine years away from us. In that address, among many other cogent observations, I said this: “We continue to …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsEducation

The Sailboat and the Lighthouse

Posted on Friday, August 9, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Brian had always been thoughtful and deliberate about spiritual things, and he had been assembling the pieces for a number of years. He had been very diligent in his own way, but he was like a guy putting together a jigsaw puzzle of a lighthouse, but one where things got mixed up in the closet, …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

But a Lot More Rewarding

Posted on Friday, August 9, 2013Friday, August 9, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Why is it that learning to live with your spouse can be awkward? . . . making a bottle of fine wine is a very different thing that mixing up a jug of fruit juice” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 110).

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

A Quite Noticeable Effect

Posted on Monday, August 5, 2013Monday, August 5, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The talk had been on confession of sin, and the effect of it had been the equivalent of dropping a hand grenade in your average living room goldfish bowl” (Evangellyfish, p. 209).

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

With Revolver Smoking

Posted on Monday, August 5, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The Greek word for ‘mortify’ here [Col. 3:5]  is an aorist imperative — in other words, it’s telling you to put it [your earthly members] to death and walk away from the carcass with your revolver smoking” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 107).

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Metaphor or Five

Posted on Sunday, August 4, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 6 comments

These are my notes for a portion of the Wordsmithy conference we held, just now concluded. Many thanks to the students who participated. You will soon discover that I am using the word metaphor in a broad sense. Some allow it to expand to include simile—this is that, and this is like that are close …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsWordsmithing

Crowdsourcing Adam

Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2013 by Douglas Wilson - 30 comments

Tim Bayly discusses a very troublesome drift on certain key questions relating to Adam here. If I might, I would like to add just a couple of comments. First, just as we evaluate individual lives by the video, and not by the snapshot, so also we should measure churches, denominations, seminaries, and so on, in …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsSex and Culture

More Than Enough Butterscotch

Posted on Friday, August 2, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“This was not really supposed to mean anything in particular, but the elders were not about to press him on it. All they wanted was for smooth words to flow over them (and everybody else in the audience) like molten butterscotch, and it was looking as though they were going to get everything they were …

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathy

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