"Of course, in saying all this, there are a few caveats of the 'don't try this at home' variety. I believe that true biblical balance in such things is the fruit of wisdom, and that such balance is not usually found in hot-headed young men who do not know what spirit they are of … [Read more...]

"At the same time, precisely because the Church is the household of the faithful, the enemy outside hates it. One of the ways he expresses that hatred is by various attempts at subversion, corrupting the Church from within. It is simply naive to maintain that all assaults on the … [Read more...]

"Simply presenting the truth of God in a computer printout fashion, without the passion, life, satire, love and emotion found in Scripture, is a way of being unfaithful to that content. Style is far more than the simple decoration of propositions. Style (with satire as an … [Read more...]

"But this begs the question: What standard are we using to say that we should imitate this part of Christ's demeanor and refuse to imitate that part of it? What standard do we use to assemble this hierarchy of verbal values" Why do we say, 'Imitate Christ in His kindness to the … [Read more...]

"Such men are masculine; they have not accepted the dictates of our effeminate times, and, despite all exhortations to the contrary, they have kept their backbone. They are dedicated to the advancement of the kingdom of God. Consequently, they are earnest about their work, and … [Read more...]

"Resistance to a mindless and fastidious approach to the Christian faith is a mark of Christian masculinity. But we live in an effeminate age, one that is far worse in this regard than the times in which Spurgeon lived. This makes application of his insight simultaneously far … [Read more...]

"The melodrama of modern evangelicalism has gotten really bad, and it is time to start an enthusiastic throwing of the popcorn" (A Serrated Edge, p. 82). … [Read more...]

"There is a difference between insulting the truth of God and insulting some lunacy that a televangelist is maintaining as the truth of God. There is a difference between kicking puppies and lampooning the self-righteous and pompous, although sometimes the sound effects are very … [Read more...]

"Whenever the Christian faith is accepted and established in a nation, and a large number of people are members of various churches, one of the first and deadliest temptations is the lust for respectability -- a lust which is defined and established by complacent worldly values, … [Read more...]

"I am reminded of the time I was reading Augustine's wonderful work The City of God, and I came to the part where he was making fun of the pagan priests for wearing their silly mitres for hats. I thought to myself, huh, I thought, and flipped the book over for another look at the … [Read more...]