"Orthodoxy requires all our faculties, our reason, our imagination, our bodily habits, our affections. Straight thinking is inconsistent with crooked lives. Faith without works is dead; stories without dragons are boring; worship is a matter of sound doctrine and well-cooked meat … [Read more...]

[Speaking of 2 Pet. 3:15-16] "The word translated as wrest here is streblao, which refers to putting something on the rack and twisting it out of all recognition. Of course, those who are occupied in this activity do not themselves describe it this way. They do not advertise … [Read more...]

"And thus, orthodoxy means straight belief or correct opinion. Who could be against this, one wonders. As it turns out, no one is against it -- every man affirms that what he maintains is the truth. Every person in the world, all day long, every day, thinks he's right. Even those … [Read more...]

"Disobedience to God's law blurs the antithsis between white and off-white. We must not resist anything because of what we see following it -- the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. At the same time, the Bible tells us the world is filled with consequences for evil actions and … [Read more...]

"The spirit of pragmatic modernity, which likes to flaunt a sophisticated and cosmopolitan air, is really carrying on like a provincialist chronological hayseed. We are entirely taken with ourselves, and outside the village we all grew up in, everything is unknown; we are … [Read more...]

"In other words, the young are always educated by their elders. God has placed them in this particular cultural river; our children have no ability to flow in a different stream. This principle is recognized clearly when we are talking about parents and their children -- just one … [Read more...]

"By distorting sphere sovereignty, these authors have embraced intellectual schizophrenia. What one believes to be true in one location (church), one must forget when entering the other church he attends (the lab). At the risk of sounding revolutionary, if something is false we … [Read more...]

"As Cornelius Van Til observed, moderns think they understand themselves. As becker's writing evidences, even in their despair, they think that despair makes sense. But a man cannot even say, 'Everything is senseless,' without making sense; rebellious man is trapped in the world … [Read more...]

"A godless, Christless cosmos -- impossible even to imagine, even for the sake of argument -- is a fragmented pile. Worse than a pile, it j^&%n*&i^5 -- fully and completely senseless. Even such random keystrokes exhibit far more order than is conceivable without Him; they … [Read more...]

"So relativism, in the realm of higher, secular education, has come to the end of its tether. And like a stupid but persistent dog, still alive but discouraged, the relativists keep yanking, trying to get free of the constraints imposed on them through God's created order. Our … [Read more...]