“The Bible can be interpreted as a string of God’s triumphs disguised as disasters” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 304).
Guest Post from Steven Boissoin
Homosexual agenda wicked Rev. Steven Boissoin Central Alberta Chairman Concerned Christian Coalition 6/17/02 The following is not intended for those who are suffering from an unwanted sexual identity crisis. For you, I have understanding, care, compassion and tolerance. I sympathize with you and offer you my love and fellowship. I prayerfully beseech you to seek …
Swearing By the Temple/Amos V
INTRODUCTION: We have come to the second of three pointed words from the prophet, addressed to a disobedient Israel. The first begins with “hear this word” (3:1). The second does the same (4:1). The third begins with “hear ye this word” (5:1). God’s judgments are not designed by Him as surprise attacks. Surprise does result, …
Sexual Orthodoxy
Things are pretty grim in Canada. Those who are up for a little appalling reading, and who still need to be convinced of my thesis statement, are encouraged to check it out here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. HT: The Pearcey Report One case involves a Pastor Boissoin, who wrote a letter to …
Why Beautiful Women Are Skittish
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 143 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful …
Brawling
One word in the New Testament expresses a virtue negatively — by reference to the sin concerned. The word amachos is rendered as “not a brawler” in one place (1 Tim. 3:3), and “no brawler” in another (Tit. 3:2). In the first Paul is describing the character of the ideal elder — he is not …
Which Is Why It Takes Courage
“A minister should not preach before the people, but he should preach right at them; let him look straight at them; if he can, let him search them through and through, and take stock of them, as it were, and see what they are like, and then suit his message to them” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures …
While Calling It Capitalism, Just to Keep Things Jumbled
“Modern statism is a return to mercantilism, to forcible impoverishment of some in order to benefit others, to zero-sum thinking” (Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction, p. 279).
Flipping Through the Yellow Pages
So your son is out of control, and you feel helpless. You don’t know what to do. If you tell him to do something, and he doesn’t want to, he throws down and there you are. He is defiant, says that he hates everybody, and you know the rest of the drill. And yet Scripture …
Let It Snow
Today is June 10 and, as I look out my window, the snow is coming down steadily and briskly. And, to pervade the whole thing with a delicious sense of irony, if I don’t accept the tenets of global warming, I am a dangerous lunatic. If I play my cards right, one day I might …