Theology That Bites Back
One of the many beeves that my adversaries have against me is that I do that Tom Petty thing, and don’t back down. And then, when I do issue a retraction or something, it is done in such a manner as to not let the bad guys hit me over the head with it. In …
Warfield’s little book The Plan of Salvation is one of the few books that I have read three times. The first time was in 1988 when I was first becoming a Calvinist, and it was no doubt part of that bumpy but wonderful process. I read it again the next year. I read it a …
Yesterday while preaching I was making a point about the difference between common nouns and more capacious nouns. I was saying that we wouldn’t think anything of it if someone wrote a three-volume history on the word democracy, and then I said this — “But if you found someone had done the same thing with …
There is a famous Luther quote that he actually didn’t say, and which my son-in-law Ben Merkle recently tracked down. Here is the quote, and it is a hummer. “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and …
Many things can be said, and have been, about divorce and remarriage. I want to make just a few additional observations, using as a platform the odd legislation found in Deuteronomy 24:1-4. In order to set the context, I hold the common view among evangelicals that divorce and remarriage is not permitted unless the other …
This is the fourth post in a series of four posts on race and reconciliation. Sincere public apologies in matters like this are difficult for many reasons, some of which I discussed in my exchanges with Thabiti. We live in a time where many are hyper about race, and so whenever you address the topic …
So then, yesterday I read an article by Anthony Bradley, here, that I thought was fantastic. And so I tweeted this: “Gosh, this was good. Anthony Bradley jacks it out of the park.” Afterwards, I read this tweet from John Piper: “Bradley messes up a good article by saying David Platt “misses ‘radical’ ideas in …
I am reliably informed that an article I wrote many moons ago is being recirculated and is out there causing some consterwebs on the Internation. The original article is here, if you are not full up on your spring quota of Wilson imbroglios. If you don’t have time to chase these things down, I will …
Within the last week, I posted something that referenced Hugo Chavez dying with 2 billion dollars in his “pockets.” A friend has let me know that that little tidbit that I had picked up on the web was, shall we say, inadequately sourced. If you want to read more, here you go. So you all …
I have recently put together the pieces of a blunder I made repeatedly over the course of a number of years. One sample of this foul deed can be found on page 108 of The Case for Classical Christian Education, but I know I made the mistake in a number of places, mostly in talks. …
