Not Where Purity Comes From
“If we are contaminated by what is done with our money after it leaves our hands, or by the history of the product we are purchasing before it reaches our hands, then all of us are contaminated all the time, all the way. On that calculus, name one clean thing in this sorry world” (Confessions …
And No Sooner Than That
“The next Christendom will come to be when Christian preachers speak it into existence through the folly of preaching” (Empires of Dirt, p. 259).
What Is a Quorum of Clowns Exactly?
“When you finally get that quorum of clowns, you are going to have a circus. What did you expect?” (Empires of Dirt, p. 259).
Which Should Be Obvious When You Think About It
“When societies fall apart, they do not do so in an orderly manner” (Empires of Dirt, p. 257).
Preaching Down Your Shirt Front
“And believe me, the lordship of Jesus over everything will always have opprobrium heaped on it. Who wants to be a nutter? Keep it respectable, champ. Keep your head down. Read those books, certainly. Enjoy them in your study, friend. No harm in that, but don’t go to extremes. Keep your head down. The only …
Biblicism and Nature’s Law
Cornelius Van Til once said that the Scriptures were authoritative in all they addressed . . . and they addressed everything. This is as true as it gets, but we all need to be a little bit more careful—“for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light” (Luke …
And Dale Did a Good Job
“Redemptive-historical preaching, as commended by many today . . . requires preachers to act as though the first three chapters of Ephesians had been written by the apostle Paul and the last three chapters contributed by Dale Carnegie” (Empires of Dirt, p. 255).
Getting Evangelicals Born Again
“The proclamation of grace without an actual movement of the Spirit’s grace is nothing but tiny works, cerebral works, the work of sitting on your butt listening to sermons about it . . . The experience of grace is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ actually saving people. Of course, we tell them about …
Salvation and Slavery
Introduction: In an earlier exchange that I had with Thabiti, he acknowledged that Scripture contains “angular texts” on the subject of slavery. He is one of the few who does acknowledge this—most expositors who claim to believe in inerrancy are content, if the subject is Scripture on slavery, to blow sunshine in all kinds of …