Theology That Bites Back
So just a quick note to say that Nancy and I had the opportunity to go see The Jesus Revolution last night. Man, what a time capsule that was. The movie was well done, and we appreciated many things about it. They really captured the excitement and the good weirdness of that excitement, and they …
“Blacks make up about thirteen percent of the general population, and yet are represented in our 35 percent of the abortions. That is disproportionate enough to lean genocidal, and to make it the actual legacy of the very white bones of Margaret Sanger. That means that 5,250 of these children, slaughtered legally since just last Wednesday, were black. Who speaks for them? I don’t count because I have a picture of Stonewall Jackson in my office.”
“If you admit a false principle into the settlement of public disputes like this one—and I hate to be the one to bring you the sorrowful tidings—the false principle does not disappear when the dispute does.”
“You cannot receive what you are unwilling for God to give to someone else also.”
“If I am preaching the gospel to a wicked nation, calling them to repent, that is somehow setting up that sinful nation as an idol? Okay, suit yourself. Jonah’s problem was that he was making an idol out of Nineveh?”
“Sin is confusion. Sin frustrates and lies. Sin is darkness. Sin is lawlessness, and sin steps out into the void. Sin seeks out the abyss, and feels the pull and the draw of that vacuum. Sin is destructive and malicious, and on the way to Hell itself just wants to see the rest of the world burn. Sin wants to scratch and maul. Sin is a devouring beast, but in the end it devours only itself.”
Letter to the Editor: Tut, tut. He gets us. “The reason we drift into presenting “Christ the option for your felt needs” instead of “Christ the risen Lord” is because this ...
“When someone is growing up in a world in which he is confronted with all sorts of unfair challenges, there is a natural and sentimental reaction that wants to soften the challenges instead of hardening the challenger.”
Introduction: In the Great Commission, the Lord Jesus told us to drain the swamp. But several thousand years later, as we live out our day-to-day lives, more than a few observers have thought it a cogent counter-argument to reply that we live in a swamp. These advanced thinkers then inform us that we have to …
