Sermon Video Introduction: A little over a week from now, we will be selecting our next president. In preparation for this, and because Christ is Lord of everything we do, we need to consider ...
These Our Turbulent Mercies
The #MeToobin Movement
Introduction: In case anybody was worried that the year 2020 couldn’t get any zestier, along comes Jeffrey Toobin. Perhaps you missed it because you just got back from hunting moose in the Yukon, and so I will fill you in. The much feted (and apparently fated) Toobin, legal analyst for CNN, was on a Zoom …
Nine Miles of Bad Road
Introduction: I want to begin with the observation that Joe Biden is an objectively poor candidate, and that by the traditional metrics he is running an objectively lousy campaign. The plain fact that he is clearly not mentally fit helped everyone to set a really low bar for the first presidential debate, such that everyone …
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7 Reasons Why It Is Possible for Christians to Vote for Trump in 2020 Without Getting a Defiled Conscience and/or Losing Their Soul
Introduction: Okay, so here’s the plan. We need to send Biden/Harris packing, and still feel good about ourselves afterwards. Can I get an amen? For some this might be a really tall order, ...
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I Am Here to Inform You That Tim Keller Has His Thumb on the Scales
Introduction: I recently saw a quote from Tim Keller that was making the rounds, and I wanted to interact with it for just a skoshy bit. I will let you judge the quote for yourself in just a hot minute — so cool your baby jets — but it appears to me that Tim Keller …
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The RBG RPG in a Time of RTG
Introduction: The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) has launched a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) into an genuinely tumultuous and vexed presidential campaign. And that campaign was already RTG (Really Tumultuous Garbage). The president, of course, is going to nominate someone to fill Ginsburg’s seat, and Cocaine Mitch has already said that there will be …
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Four Questions for Christian Libertarians
Introduction: “When is it moral for a civil society to permit, authorize, or use coercion?” As I attempt to address this complex question adequately, I want to set out four basic concerns that ...
Our Wounded Duck Football Punt Election
Introduction: I have an encouraging word for those who really care about the future of our nation, all fourteen of them. I think it would be fair to describe these people as having a serious case of the jumps, and they need a word of encouragement. And I speak in jest — I know there …
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On Not Accepting Stolen Elections
Introduction: I think it is fair to say that the political and cultural condition of our country can best be described as "inflamed." And in this inflamed condition, we are coming up on a presidential ...
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7 Reasons to Expect a Trumpslide
Introduction: This is not so much a prediction as it is an occasion for me to share my heart. Sharing your heart with others is still okay, right? Especially if it is a heartfelt sharing of the heart. When we contemplate the coming presidential election, the phrase that comes to my mind is “brace for …
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