“Medical science is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of tolerable truths”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 64
Sounds Like Epistolary Reflux
Letter to the Editor: Regarding "The Changing of the Guard"—I say "AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!" I left the church where we had been ministering as lay leaders when the newly minted young 30-something ...
You’re Gonna Punish Somebody
“When a constitution was drafted for a free and virtuous people, and we try to make it work for a dissolute and wasted people, this will have the effect of declaring war on the few remaining citizens who want to live in a virtuous way.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 58
The Changing of the Guard
Introduction: Our impending cultural collision can be seen in what the Navy calls a “steady bearing rate.” If you see a ship off your starboard bow at 30 degrees, and then half an hour later, it is bigger, but still at that thirty degrees, that is called a steady bearing rate. If it keeps up, …
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Killing Ants with the Flat of a Shovel
Introduction: Last week we asked all of you to pray about a decision from the district court regarding our motion to transfer the Stickergate case from Maskow here up to the district court. That motion was denied on Friday because the current judge on the case had not requested it. What that means is that …
So Take It Away Already
“Take away the safety net, and it is likely that the number of people experimenting with the trapeze bar will decrease significantly.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 57
Just Do the Next Thing
Remember the Point
“Much of our preaching is like delivering lectures upon medicine to sick people. The lecture is true. The lecture is interesting . . . But still the fact remains that the lecture is not medicine, and that to give the medicine, not to deliver the lecture, is the preacher’s duty.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 102
I Mean, Look Straight at It
“The way the push for legal pot is happening now, the pressure is on us to increase the liberty of the irresponsible citizens while simultaneously decreasing the liberty of the responsible ones. That fact all by itself should reveal the play that is being run on us.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 49
Fight Next Month, Laugh Next Month, Feast Next Month, All at One Time
So next month, on September 9th-11th, I’ll be in Lebanon, Tennessee at the Fight Laugh Feast Network’s second annual conference. The topic will be The Politics of Sex. I’ll be speaking Friday evening, September 10th. My topic will be Gay Pulpits: The Politics of Feminism, Homosexuality, and Unfaithful Children. Other speakers include Voddie Baucham on …