Category: Engaging the Culture

“Has any mortal seen Heaven? Well, actually, all of us have seen the outskirts. If you ask a typical modern if he has ever seen an angel, you will likely get laughed at. You are likely to get this treatment even if the modern you ask happens to be a professing Christian. ‘Seeing angels’ is something our more excitable brethren on the charismatic fringes do, and we by contrast are sober, responsible, upright, not drunk, and pretty dude. And so when one of these buttoned-up-tight Christians tells you that he has never seen an angel, has it ever occurred to you to point at the night sky and ask, ‘So what are those?’”

The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 140

“And even Chesterton, who takes shots at Calvinism every third chance he gets, cannot stay out of the truth. For example, in Orthodoxy he says, ‘Thus he has always believed there is such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.’ Well, hey, and amen.”

The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 104

“The writer of the Song of Solomon wrote some poetry that insinuated his sexual imagination into the sexual experience of other people, and these other people, the readers, were not married to him.”

The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 127

“The beautiful words Naphtali speaks do not displace content-bearing words. A pearl necklace on a beautiful woman is not extraneous.”

The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 125

“Calvin preached from the New Testament on Lord’s Day mornings, the Psalms on Lord’s Day afternoons, and the Old Testament at 6 a.m. on one or two weekdays.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 113

“This disclaimer even includes the true system of doctrine that, as we all know, the archangel Gabriel delivered in 1619 to the Synod of Dort.”

The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 96