And There’s the Difficulty
Because False Principles Are Tenacious
“If you admit a false principle into the settlement of public disputes like this one—and I hate to be the one to bring you the sorrowful tidings—the false principle does not disappear when the dispute does.”
Nothing Doing
“You cannot receive what you are unwilling for God to give to someone else also.”
On Christian Nationalism
“If I am preaching the gospel to a wicked nation, calling them to repent, that is somehow setting up that sinful nation as an idol? Okay, suit yourself. Jonah’s problem was that he was making an idol out of Nineveh?”
Stepping Out Into the Void
“Sin is confusion. Sin frustrates and lies. Sin is darkness. Sin is lawlessness, and sin steps out into the void. Sin seeks out the abyss, and feels the pull and the draw of that vacuum. Sin is destructive and malicious, and on the way to Hell itself just wants to see the rest of the world burn. Sin wants to scratch and maul. Sin is a devouring beast, but in the end it devours only itself.”
We Write Letters Rather Than Curse the Darkness
Letter to the Editor: Tut, tut. He gets us. “The reason we drift into presenting “Christ the option for your felt needs” instead of “Christ the risen Lord” is because this ...
Two Different Ways
“When someone is growing up in a world in which he is confronted with all sorts of unfair challenges, there is a natural and sentimental reaction that wants to soften the challenges instead of hardening the challenger.”
David French & the Vapors of Civic Virtue Escaping from a Mystery Box
Introduction: In the Great Commission, the Lord Jesus told us to drain the swamp. But several thousand years later, as we live out our day-to-day lives, more than a few observers have thought it a cogent counter-argument to reply that we live in a swamp. These advanced thinkers then inform us that we have to …
Shared Iniquity
“We must find common ground in Adam. We must find common ground in our shared iniquity. That is the only way out. When we recognize that we are all one great mess in Adam, then we can by the grace of God shake hands in the second Adam—and only there.”
A Cautionary Tale
