Introduction
: We live in a world where rough things happen. Despite all our advances in technology, everyone reading this will still at some point die. We still get sick. We still have financial ...
Trusting God in a Hard Providence
The Grace of Believing
Acts of the Apostles (41): Sermon Video Introduction: As we continue through Acts, we come to a passage that is filled with a number of interesting details—details which spread out in different ...
Letters To Remind Us of Whatever It Was We Decided to Write About
Letter to the Editor: I could not believe there are people out there with such a bigoted, intolerant and hateful view on life. The ONLY reason I write this is to register my abhorrence ...
No Finger in the Air
“The fact is, the Bible does say that for a man to lie with another man as with a woman is an abomination (Lev. 20:13), that Israel should not suffer a witch to live (Ex. 22:18), that God flooded the entire globe good and wet for their experiments in federally funded genetic splicing (Gen. 6:4), that Christian slaves were instructed to work doubly hard for their Christian masters (1 Tim. 6:2), and that placing women in combat roles was beyond appalling (Deut. 22:5). There is a kind of Christian still out there who believes that exegesis of such passages is not done by licking a finger and holding it up in the breeze.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 40
Letters to Help Us Pass the Time
Letter to the Editor: I’m probably the Christian antheysus of your philosophy. I’m a lifelong Catholic and in full communion with the Holy Father. I find your faith a perversion ...
In Which Russell Moore, Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, and Your Humble Servant Have a Frank Exchange of Views
Introduction Perhaps you might allow me to begin by describing one of my first evangelistic endeavors. This was some time in the late fifties or early sixties, and so it was when I was just ...
Seth and Lilee
A Christian wedding is a testimony, and all the guests are present at the wedding so that they might testify to the reality of that testimony. So that we might all understand our roles a bit better, a few comments are offered here as a reminder. The first testimony is given by God Himself, and …
Letters Post-CNN
As result of the interview with CNN, I was introduced to a number of new acquaintances. Not all of them were enchanted. Letter to the Editor: Shame. Shame on you for wicked beliefs. ...
That CNN Report: Viewing the Game Film
Introduction: So last week CNN dropped a report that they had put together on all the doings out here in Moscow. That piece was a blessing for us in many ways, and I thought to take a few minutes ...
Intertwined with the Gospel
“God made us male and female, and this is the image of God (Gen. 1:27). We cannot talk about men and women without talking about the triune God, Christ and the Church, and the whole point of the gospel. We cannot talk nonsense about men and women without talking nonsense about the triune God, Christ and the Church, and the whole point of the gospel.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 14