“The hierarchies are ranked differently—they are not all the same. The Lord wants about half of his children to be husbands and the other half to be wives. He wants some to love classical music and others to love music from the Delta. He wants them all to hate abortion and child porn. He wants …
But It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
“We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside …
The Latest Scientific Consensus
“If a public policy screecher began demanding that we all start rationing salt water because the planet Earth (which is our only home) was about to run completely out, and that many leading theologians agreed with this (and they would too), and that they offered their agreement in the name of the Lord Jesus, and …
Until You Can See the Marble Pattern of the Counter Through It
“I would like to borrow a metaphor from Warfield and apply it to the phrase ‘the lordship of Christ.’ In the hands of liberals, the lordship of Christ is like pie dough—the farther you spread it, the thinner it gets” (Empires of Dirt, p. 124).
A Difficult Imagine
“Imagine trying to prove from the Bible that God wants rulers, especially Christian ones, to pretend that He doesn’t exist—to pretend in public that they don’t know Him” (Empires of Dirt, p. 123).
Sinning Right and Left
“Incidentally, I am making this argument so that Christians may call their leaders to righteousness, whether those leaders are Republicans or Democrats. I am not assuming that only Democrats are guilty of this kind of hypocrisy—far from it. When these words were first written, the present writer was being represented in the United States Senate …
Forgiveness is Never Apolitical
“When a people sin in three dimensions, and they demand that the throne be established on unrighteousness, and they frame iniquity with a law, and they say that a woman can have her child dismembered in the womb as her constitutional right, does the Church, which its message of deliverance from sin and death, have …
Problems 360
“When you enroll in a math class, you will have math problems. Those math problems are not an argument for staying out of the class. When you resolve to follow Jesus Christ, you will have ‘following Jesus Christ’ problems. If He gives you victory, you will have victory temptations, like Gideon. If He gives you …
Not Inscrutable at All
“The God of Romans 1 is not a generic god, and He is not inscrutable. The miserable wretches described in Romans 1 only wish He were inscrutable” (Empires of Dirt, p. 114).
And No Bowler Hats Either
“We are not called to tiptoe and mime our way across the public square” (Empires of Dirt, p. 109).