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Letters of a Junish Sort
Spiritual Paint Thinner
“If I turn every gift that God gives over in my hands suspiciously, looking for the idol trap, then I am not rejoicing before Him the way I ought to be . . . This world competes with the eternal things, and so what we think we must do is get a five-gallon bucket of dour paint thinner and pour it over all our material possessions. We try to make Heaven thick by making earth thin.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 48-49
Latest Stickergate Update
For those who still continue to wonder about the Stickergate saga, it does continues on. Here is the latest update for you. We are living in a time when law enforcement has become itself lawless. Please continue to pray, and for those who have seen fit to give, we heartily thank you. Fighting city hall …
Ah. There’s the Trouble.
Not Two Billiard Balls
“In a perichoretic world, the gift need not displace the Giver, as though they were two billiard balls. In the material world, the space that one object occupies is space that another object cannot occupy. We carry our assumptions about this over into the spiritual world, and we consequently assume that if we are thinking about meat on the grill, bees in the honeysuckle, a sweet wife in bed, beer in a frosted glass, or a full tank of gas and lots of Wyoming ahead, then we cannot be thinking about God also, or be living in gratitude before Him. But I don’t believe this is the case at all.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 47-48
Just One Sacramental
“There are two sacraments, true, there is is only one sacramental. The world is that sacramental, and everything in it. Grace is everywhere and gets into everything. Faith can dig it out of anything. The grandeur of God can flame out from anything, like the shining from shook foil.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 40.
CT and a Pandemic Amnesty
Introduction: Echoing a piece from The Atlantic last fall, Christianity Today has published an appeal to evangelicals, asking them to extend grace to one another over the hard decisions that were made during the COVID emergency. Now that the state of emergency is over and done, we should be able to look back, reflect on …
Beer and Bacon Too
“He rose from the dead in this world in order to redeem everything about it, beer and bacon included.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39
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Letters in June Rhyme With Moon
So, due to the fact that I was off on vacation for some time, the mound of letters to go through got a bit bigger, and the time available for going through them is the same. That means the selection ...