Boundaries are an essential element in any art, but it does not follow from this that if the boundaries are honored and respected, the great art will necessarily follow. A lot of pedestrian poetry has been written within the confines of the traditional forms. Sexual boundaries follow the same kind of pattern. The one true …
Judge Me, O God
The sermon last Lord’s Day was on Psalm 43 — on the willingness of the psalmist to invite God to come down and judge his case.
Fifth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 44
INTRODUCTION: The next psalm is a desperate plea for help from God. He is the God of their salvation, and yet He appears not to care. The citation of this psalm in the New Testament shows it to be the plea of righteous martyrs. THE TEXT: “We have heard with our ears, O God, our …
Mile High Hecatombs
Obama is going to give his acceptance speech from a stage manufactured to look like an ancient Greek temple. Tune in right before they sacrifice the heifers!
Homo Pomo in Slowmo
As I look at the state of public discourse today, and the Church’s contribution to it, I often feel like somebody stuffed me into a Walker Percy novel, and then somebody else screwed the lid on. It is as though everybody has agreed to do a cute little two step, closer and closer to the …
Narratival Hooey
So check this out. Emergent Christians and pomothinkers like to emphasize that the faith is a story with a storyline, and want to deemphasize the rigid creedal and doctrinal aspects of the faith. Let’s just leave that last bit aside for a moment, and take a closer look at these “story Christians.” The most striking …
In Case You’re the Kind Who Likes to Keep a Joke Around
I put the Dalai Bama image on a few t-shirts and mugs here. I am not sure, but I think Frank Turk made his millions this way.
The North Wind and Rain
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 151 “The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue” (Prov. 25:23). Nothing brings out the backbiting tongue like a little bit of success. And of course, a person who goes into business ought not …
But a Concession to Nutritional Knowledge is Not a Concession to Nutritional Mysticism
“Does he seriously hope to pass off this rhapsody on meat and starch as a treatise on cooking? Does he actually think that anyone who has the least notion of what is involved in a balanced diet would condescend to settle down in the waistland of gravy and spaetzle he praises so extravagantly? Well, believe …
Stupid Wrangles Sown
Anopheles means unprofitable. It is used twice in the New Testament, both times in a moral sense. The first instance is this: “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit. 3:9). Stupid wrangles sown produce a harvest to match. The second usage does …