Defeated at Their Own Game
“The righteousness of liberty outdoes the legalist, and the joy of liberty outdoes the libertine.”
Both Strict and Free
“Liberty is not a middle position between legalism and license; it is another thing entirely. We have a hard time with this. Liberty is not moderate legalism or moderated license. Liberty is stricter than legalism, and liberty is freer than license.”
The Principalities and Powers Await Their Apology
Introduction: Do you want to hear what recently occurred on Facebook? Yes? Well, Joel McDurmon took the CrossPolitic guys to task over the issue of apologies, and the unmanliness of refusing ...
Hard Grace, But Grace Still
“Hardship in a story is grace; hardship without a story is just pain.”
Two Cheers for Al Mohler
Please consider this a most important update. I would like to commend this article from The Federalist to you all. Over the last week or so, one of my criticisms of Southern has been the way in which Matthew Hall’s statements were scrubbed –without explanation or comment. In this article, Mohler explains how they were …
Sorting the Mail as Best We Can
Letter to the Editor: You speak of sorcery as the short cut to gain the benefits of obedience without the obedience itself, and that seems very apt. But I also can't help but think ...
The Way It Is
“A garden of grace can contain a tree of law. A garden of law cannot contain a tree of grace”
Like a Gelatinous Pudding
Introduction: In the New Testament, obedience is a good word. Also in the New Testament, works is not, unless it is modified with a word like good. We are called to good works (Titus 2:7), but ...
Poor Pairing
“It is the easiest thing in the world to find a moral standard in the Bible and then to be selfish with it”