“Mark this well: adultery is not the same thing as divorce. It is certainly covenantal unfaithfulness and is grounds for divorce, but if there is no divorce, then the marriage remains binding on both parties. An adulterous husband is a covenant-breaking husband, not an ex-husband. In short, we must distinguish covenant-breaking from covenant-separation.”
Letters Do Help to Pass the Time
Letter to the Editor: I have to think the threat of Trump, who could not be bought off, exposing Epstein's and Sean "Diddy" Combs' "clients" might be driving threats on his life. There ...
My, What Big Ears You Have
“We should note that the sheep don’t have to go to graduate school to find out the difference between a shepherd and a wolf.”
A Sexual Marketplace
So the reasons for a young man marrying young, as outlined elsewhere, seem fairly compelling. So why are so few young men doing this? What is the hold up? Why can’t they get with the program? The short answer is that people respond to incentives and they respond to disincentives also. These incentives and disincentives …
All the Way Down Aaron’s Beard
“So what problem is created by the heretic? For instance, we have some who reason that since these other fellows (liberals, etc.) are certainly part of the visible Church, then our relationship with them should be collegial. In other words, we should schmooze with one another all the way down Aaron’s beard. Others reason that ‘if that lesbian bishop is a Christian, then I’m a Hottentot.’”
Breakable Covenants
“We like to pretend that the New Testament is filled with automatic covenant blessings, but the only way to maintain the illusion is to come up with an invisible covenant that no one can point to in such a way as to prove us wrong. We like to pretend that this is a point of distinction between the old and new covenants, whereas in fact it is one of the places where the New Testament draws parallels, with solemn warning. In this respect, the New Testament church was no different than the church of Jews in the wilderness. Jews in the wilderness apostatized; Christians in the first century apostatized. Much of the New Testament was written with this concern front and center.”
A Most Unfortunate Typo
“But breaking covenant occurs because of unbelief, lack of faith, and because of lack of good works.”
“But breaking covenant occurs because of unbelief, lack of faith, and not because of lack of good works.”
#1 “Reformed” Is Not Enough, p. 134, original #2 “Reformed” Is Not Enough, p. 134, there, fixed it
Trump Winning, Trump Losing, and Other Ends and Odds
Gaming the Election: There are four basic options. Either Trump wins in a blow out, or he wins in a squeaker. That's two. The other two are that Harris wins in a blow out, or she wins in a squeaker. ...
Real Apostasy
“The one cast out as a branch was a branch, and not some bit of tumbleweed caught in the branches. So there is such a thing as genuine covenantal connection to Christ which is not salvific at the last day”