Introduction: Like many obviously correct religious phrases, the soothing and very centered one about being gospel-centered, or Christ-centered, or Bible-centered is obviously correct. But ...
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Galadriel and the Chimp
The Forest and the Trees
“There is no reason why, in the Bible as in Shakespeare, the minute study of parts should not be dangerous to the conception of the whole.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 105
Stay Away from Flattering Doctors
“Medical science is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of tolerable truths”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 64
Sounds Like Epistolary Reflux
Letter to the Editor: Regarding "The Changing of the Guard"—I say "AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!" I left the church where we had been ministering as lay leaders when the newly minted young 30-something ...
You’re Gonna Punish Somebody
“When a constitution was drafted for a free and virtuous people, and we try to make it work for a dissolute and wasted people, this will have the effect of declaring war on the few remaining citizens who want to live in a virtuous way.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 58
The Changing of the Guard
Introduction: Our impending cultural collision can be seen in what the Navy calls a “steady bearing rate.” If you see a ship off your starboard bow at 30 degrees, and then half an hour later, it is bigger, but still at that thirty degrees, that is called a steady bearing rate. If it keeps up, …
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Killing Ants with the Flat of a Shovel
Introduction: Last week we asked all of you to pray about a decision from the district court regarding our motion to transfer the Stickergate case from Maskow here up to the district court. That motion was denied on Friday because the current judge on the case had not requested it. What that means is that …
So Take It Away Already
“Take away the safety net, and it is likely that the number of people experimenting with the trapeze bar will decrease significantly.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 57
Just Do the Next Thing
Remember the Point
“Much of our preaching is like delivering lectures upon medicine to sick people. The lecture is true. The lecture is interesting . . . But still the fact remains that the lecture is not medicine, and that to give the medicine, not to deliver the lecture, is the preacher’s duty.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 102