A few days ago I noted that when Jesus compares false teaching to leaven, He is requiring His ministers to exhibit high levels of discernment (Matt. 16:6). Earlier in Matthew, He had told us to guard against wolves in sheep's clothing (Matt. 7:15) -- an image that certainly … [Read more...]

Now here's a story that tells you everything you need to know about the moral bankruptcy of the secular West, and the impossibility of a secular multiculturalism. A true multiculturalism is something to be desired, but it is only possible in Christ. The concept of something like … [Read more...]

Intimacy without obedience is promiscuous and pathetic. As it turns out, authority and obedience are erotic necessities. But you can't have either without a covenant -- and covenant vows, of necessity, obligate the husband to take responsibility and require the wife to render … [Read more...]

The first thing to do is go here, and read through the post, particularly the transcript of the Q&A at the bottom. Tim Keller is at Covenant, and is asked a very good question about homosexuality. In the course of his answer, Keller says that there is no question about where … [Read more...]

The current set of sex scandals afflicting the Roman Catholic church are located in Germany, Ireland, and Wisconsin, and it at least appears that the current pope was related in some way to some of the disciplinary failure involved. As time passes, there will be other scandals in … [Read more...]

An ancient error, that of pendulum swinging, finds that when the cognitive functions of man have been emphasized too much, the time has come to careen toward the passions. And when life under the tyranny of the passions becomes unbearable, which it always does, the error is to … [Read more...]

A correspondent has asked me to comment on the "sin of homophobia." What is my take on that? In order to address this, we have to ask some questions first. If someone asked us about the sin of eating pork, our follow-up question would be to ask what religion they were concerned … [Read more...]

On the tube this evening, I saw a couple of neocons surrendering on the question of homosexuals in the military. The top brass are starting to capitulate on it, Obama is going a whole lot slower than the homosexual activists want him to, but he is moving on it, and what passes … [Read more...]

What are we to do over Chrissie Hynde's distress over the fact that her city was gone? And back when I was a kid, there was a singer named Joe South, who had a similar song -- "Don't it make you want to go home?" "There's a six-lane highway down by the creek where I went … [Read more...]