Dear visionaries, A leader in our town’s liberal elite doesn’t think kicking puppies is a discriminatory event? Where is PETA when you need them? Cordially, Douglas Wilson “Homophobes are people too.” Charlesmagne “Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local …
Peacemaking
Mankind loves to wrangle. It is part of the sinful condition we inherited from Adam. Unfortunately, this is one of the last sins addressed after conversion. In many cases, a professed conversion to Christ “just changes the subject,” but does not change the heart of a man given to quarrels. But “blessed are the peacemakers, …
Squelching Rumors
Dear visionaries, So, someone wants to know if a Discrimination Event occurred in a local coffee emporium owned by Christians? Rumor control, aye. So then I heard that there is a special room in the basement of the admin building where the president of the University of Idaho goes every day at noon and kicks …
Foundations of Marriage IV
Introduction: By the grace of God, we have repented of our discontent and want to be teachable. We want to hear the word of truth in truth, and make applications according to the Spirit and not according to the letter. And we want to apply whatever we learn to ourselves first, and not to our …
Foundations of Marriage III
Introduction: We are beginning this series on marriage with a short introductory series on why teaching on marriage frequently does no good at all. The first reason we considered was discontent, because discontented people are unteachable. The second stumbling block is our tendency to trust in the letter of the law, instead of trusting in …
Honoring Parents
Although the message of the Fifth Commandment is clearly a message which is important for children to hear and heed, it is not a message just for children. Everyone who reads this has parents, and everyone who hears has a duty to honor them in the way the Bible describes. “Honor your father and your …
Burke the Progressive?
Morning, visionaries, As you may have surmised, I have no problem posting things that progressives find distressing to their tidy and very narrow worldview. And this is not that hard to do when dealing with fundamentalists who have no fundament. But I do not do it for the sake of being offensive — the point …
Reflected Glory
Dear visionaries, Don’t mean to quibble, but I wish that Linda would discontinue using that little tag at the bottom of her posts: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” Edmund Burke For as we know, Burke was a noted conservative extremist, one opposed to the …
Trailer Committee
A few days ago, I mentioned Guy Waters’ book on the New Perspective on Paul, and did not heap scorn upon it. Rather, I commended it, all but the last eight pages, which really were unfortunate. When I wrote that review, I did not know that Guy Waters was on the committee for Mississippi Valley …
Expensive Bread
GRACE & PEACE “At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 25 Those who are wealthy are in a position to afford various luxuries. They are also vulnerable to the temptation to not notice that they have access to these luxuries. As we have noted already, we are …