Letter to the Editor: Thank you as always for your faithful service to Christ. Your work has blessed and continues to bless me, my family and my church abundantly. This is in response to ...
If This is Tuesday, These Must Be Letters
So Don’t Act Surprised
“The spirit of grace and generosity does not take Mammon out of your hands, but it most certainly takes you out of Mammon’s hands. And while Mammon remains a snake, the Lord promised that we could handle serpents without harm (Mark 16:18). But apart from the sovereign grace of God, you cannot keep money from doing what money always does.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 78
The First Casualty of War
Introduction: The sentiment has been expressed in various ways, from Aeschylus to Winston Churchill, and I am referring to the very pointed sentiment that the first casualty of war is the truth. That said, I really like the way Samuel Johnson expressed it. ‘Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of …
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Modern Problems
Monetized Exegesis
“It is too often the case that we follow Christ when pocket change is involved, but dismiss the demands of discipleship when real money starts to alter our exegesis.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 76
That Mystery Handshake
“Too many Christians think that regeneration, or good intentions, or having a nice personality will somehow make your memory perfect, or will prevent you from getting hit by a truck. Suppose you get hit by that truck, and your heirs and your partner’s heirs are all trying to figure out what that handshake fifteen years ago meant. So write it down. This does not make you suspicious and unloving. God loves us perfectly, and He still wrote it down.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 72
The Golden Rule, With Adjustments
Dear Dawson, If you are any kind of a Christian at all, you know about the Golden Rule. All kinds of people know about the Golden Rule, in fact, including many unbelievers. What many people do not ...
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And Spoon
“So not only are they lazy they are also lazy and entitled. And, to apply the old proverb to them it could be raining porridge and they’d have forgotten their bowl.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 70
“Look, Ma, No Hands,” Letters Edition
Letter to the Editor: Regarding She don't lie, Why the invasion? Putin doesn't want nukes in a NATO'ed Ukraine. Closer than Cuba to the United States. Kennedy felt the same in 1962. Pray ...
What Cream Does
“The Bible teaches us that cream rises. This is not because cream has anything to boast of, but rather because of how God created and governs His world . . . Cream rises because of the blessing of God. The point is to seek the blessing of being cream, and then secondarily, after that, seeking blessing that comes to cream. You never want to strive to be skim milk, and yet somehow rise like cream.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 66