Here is my next installment in getting caught up with Green Baggins. I will not be trying to pick up the thread of discussion that was going on prior to this, but simply reply to some of Lane’s concerns expressed in this post. Lane says, “I really challenge the assertion that repentance and faith are …
The Invisible Church in Their Heads
I am just emerging from a busy season, and now have some time to get back to a promise I made to Lane over at Green Baggins. That promise was to finish our conversation, and so here I am. There were three posts of Lane’s, as I understand it, that were waiting for a reply …
Unbelief and Disobedience
The word apeitheo relates to unbelief and disobedience both. It is important for us as classical Protestants to distinguish them, but is equally important for us to refuse to separate them. Far too many tight Protestants, zealous for what they believe to be the truth, are willing to sacrifice sola Scriptura on the altar of …
What We Long to Become
“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers, why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry, or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half of earth’s gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become. For all its rooted …
Because Dead Children Can’t Breathe Fresh Air
“Some excellent brethren seem to think more of the life than of the truth; for when I warn them that the enemy has poisoned the children’s bread, they answer, ‘Dear brother, we are sorry to hear it; and, to counteract the evil, we will open the window, and give the children fresh air.’ Yes, open …
Written in 2003
“I have defined postmodernism as a turning from rationality, and at the same time an embracing of spectacle . . . The image waits for a political life . . . . There are more reasons to fear fascism than communism in a postmodern world. For one thing, fascism is anti-intellectual (communism is predicated on …
A Protean Shape-Shifter Takes Office
It has been a while since I went off on postmodernism, which is clear proof that I have been being good, so allow me this oblique observation. With the election of Barack Obama, we now have in the White House the kind of protean shape-shifter ideally fitted for the pomo ethos. This provides us with …
Slavic Reformation
Let me take this opportunity to commend this ministry to you. Remarkable things are happening in that part of the world, and the Slavic Reformation Society is part of it.
New Songs, Both New and Old
This exhortation concerns something we do in every worship service, and consequently it is possible for the whole thing to start becoming “old hat.” I am referring to the practice of psalm singing, and want to urge you to not do it in a way that we can simply check off our list. “Sang my …
Bread for Strength, Wine for Joy
In Psalm 104: 14-15, we are told that God feeds the world. As part of this, the psalmist mentions wine and bread as part of God’s great gift. He tells us that bread is given to strengthen the heart of man, and that wine is given to gladden the heart of man. As we gather …