Theology That Bites Back
“He was killed, though the coming and faith one,
He died on a stake, a gibbeted Christ.
Distorted and bent on a twisted cross,
And by left-handed dealings, by subtle turns,
He turned all pious and correct expectations
Up on their heads; He tumbled them down.”
21 Prayers, pp. 1-2
“If the Jews are right and Jesus did not rise from the dead, then we Christians of all men are most to be pitied (1 Cor. 15:19). And if He did rise from the dead, then modern Judaism is an attempt to have a Messiah-based religion while leaving the Messiah out of it. But that is like, as the old illustration goes, putting on a production of Hamlet, and leaving out the prince of Denmark.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 64
“I pray that Your preachers would come down like fire,
Consuming the forests of deadwood and sin.
I pray that Your preachers would come like a storm,
Hitting the people on a wild stretch of coast.
I ask pulpit fervor, I seek pulpit fire—
The Word blazing forth, consuming the people,
The Word marching forth, eager to conquer.”
21 Prayers, p. 128
“Liberal can be honest in their unbelief, and conservatives can be dishonest in their profession of faith. You can believe in the resurrection of the dead, and also devour widow’s houses.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 57
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“A word from Your lips, just a nod of Your head,
And white doves would take the place of these crows.
Replace all the crows that caw from dead pulpits,
And bring life to Your people, revive them again.”
21 Prayers, p. 129
“If we were looking for a term in English that had a similar etymology and cachet as ‘Pharisee,’ it would be something like the term ‘Puritan.’ Both words indicate some kind of desire for separation and holiness. Like Pharisaism, Puritanism was noble in its founding, had some glorious exemplars, was doctrinally rigorous, went to seed after a few centuries, and is now easy to mock.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 56
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“The difference is much wider than the fact that Christians have both the Old and New Testaments while the Jews have the Old Testament. Rather, the distinction is that Christians have the entire Word of God while the Jews have an Old Testament which they have in effect nullified with their traditions. This process was already well underway when Jesus rebuked it, and it has continued down to the present, with the Jews unrepentant.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 53
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