“Whenever I see congruent merit on the street, I never fail to help opprobrium on his pointy little head.”
The Source of Nature is Supernature
“When Jesus turned the water into wine at Cana, the resultant wine was true wine. It was a supernatural act that brought it into being suddenly, but the wine itself was as natural as the wine that had already been drunk. And because it was better wine, we cannot say it was unnatural in any way.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 97
Grove City College Rounds the Cape of Good Hope
Introduction: Many of you are aware of a controversy last year that revolved around whether or not Grove City College was going woke or not. After the controversy broke, I commented on it a few times—here and here. If you need a refresher, there you go. As some time has gone by, I thought I …
Living Faith from the Get Go
“I thought faith was the instrument of justification in the ordo salutis, and therefore preceded it. In other words, faith is what it is before justification gets to it, because justification doesn’t happen without the instrumentality of faith, which has to be what it is in order for justification to happen at all.”
What She Would Not Say
“God made Adam out of dirt, and He made Eve out of Adam’s rib. And when God presented the woman to the man, and he asked where she came from, her reply was not ‘from my pre-Adamite hominoid ancestors.’”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 96
Letters Come In Like a Breeze off the Bay
Letter to the Editor: I just finished listening to the third book of your new maritime series, Two Williams. I think this series is your best fictional work yet. This post reminds me ...
The Blammo School of Thought
“The other view, the one that I am stoutly comfortable with, might be called the blammo view of creation. About ten thousand years ago, as the crow flies, there was nothing, and absolutely nothing underneath, above, or around that nothing. And then about four thousand years after that, also as the crow flies, God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and blammo, there it was.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 96
Not by Works, Friend
“Saving faith obeys the gospel, and only the gospel. Saving obedience believes in Jesus Christ, and saving obedience does nothing but believe in Jesus Christ.”
Ragnarok and the Administrative State
Introduction: In 1983, Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada by American troops, and the Caribbean island was liberated from its Marxist rulers—an event the islanders still celebrate. ...
Not Natural
“Some men want to defend ministerial credentials through shibbolethian propositions, making the truth walk around on stilts.”