My name is Jim Wilson. I am 88 years old, pastor of Word of Life Church in Moscow. I am Douglas Wilson’s father. I am not a regular reader of what goes on in this blog. It would take up too much of my time. However, I have a few things I would like to …
Triune Botherations
Introduction: I feel like the guy right before Pickett’s charge who thought he could make peace by walking between the armies in a gray coat and blue trousers. So wish me luck everybody. As many of you know, a controversy with two layers erupted within the last month, having to do with Trinitarian theology and …
Jed and Sophie
One of the things we know about God from Scripture is that He is the consummate matchmaker. He created the very idea of matches in the Garden when He established marriage. He gave life to Adam, and then gave a wife to Adam. He made the whole enterprise possible, in other words. And the Lord …
Love and Liberty
The theme we have been developing is that self-government is the ground of all other government. Men and women who cannot govern themselves will in fact be governed by others. The less government they have at home, in the heart, the more government from the outside will necessarily be imposed. This liberty we are speaking …
Perfect Fellowship
In order for this to be a meal of true fellowship, it must be a meal of perfect fellowship. God is the God of all perfections, and He cannot look upon evil. He cannot fellowship with sin, or countenance iniquity. How then is possible for us to be here? We are fallen, sinful, and corrupt. …
A Sparkly Lunatic
Fair Warning: Just so that you have ample warning beforehand, I would like to provide an advance heads up that I intend to lay about myself like a coruscating berserker. So that you don’t have to resort to google, what that basically means is “sparkly lunatic.” Some of you may have guessed — from the …
The Peril of Zero Sum Counseling
Introduction: Given the times we live in, and that fact that it is an evil day, I believe it is necessary to explain and defend a particular assumption that should under-gird all pastoral counseling, particularly marriage counseling. I first learned this assumption from my father decades ago, and it has been an integral part of …
Eighth Decade of Psalms: Psalm 73
Introduction: Asaph was an important singer in Israel, and this is the second psalm composed by him. In addition, it is the first of eleven in a row by him. We do not have any details of his biography, as we do with David, but we (possibly) learn a great deal about his personal piety …
Southern Baptist Lava Lamps
Just the other day, in a masterpiece of bad timing, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention voted to disassociate themselves from the Confederate battle flag. I maintain this was a cloth-headed blunder for three basic reasons. First, it was as though the second story of your house were on fire, and the fire department did …
Rethink the Ink
Introduction: I stated in my earlier post on tattoos that there are Christians I respect who differ with me on the subject, and Joel McDurmon would certainly be in that number. And, just so you know, another example would be Jeff Durbin and the Apologia guys. My appreciation is specific, not generic. Now in order …