“Because He is the living God, because He is the fountain of life, this means that all the days involved in that glorious title Ancient of Days, are each of them new days. They are new days, and they remain new days. How could He grow old? He is the everlasting one. He is the …
The Extraordinary Ordinary
“To the dullard all things are dull . . . The simpleton thinks that ordinary things are ordinary . . . only a healthy soul can see how remarkable every unremarkable thing actually is. When you consider how many magnificent things can be done with a potato, you recognize the absolute sovereignty of God, and …
Conservatism Is Not a Flash Mob
“Look. I like Ronald Reagan. But defending the right wing of your civilization from Reagan on down is like appealing to the ancient lineage of Gondor — you know, way back to Denethor’s grandfather. Three stewards in a row” (Rules, p. 230).
Parade Ground Generals
“What we need are some Levites with the sword of the Spirit to ascend into their pulpits and fix it. But that might require some courage, and so as a proposed alternative we have built a conference circuit, and a series of networks and coalitions, and let’s not forget the blogs, where we have all …
Never Silent
“Find me one place in the universe that is silent about Him. The stars sing about Him. The oceans provide the bass line. The mountain ranges skip like a calf, and the tree reach yearningly toward the Heaven that they so wonderfully represent to us. And the azure sky tells men to stop bonking their …
Both Books
“But the God who passes judgment on that day is the same God who inspired the Scriptures to be written, and He is also the same God who governs the fall of sparrows, the motion of atoms in all of Neptune’s moons, the number of hairs on every head that will come up before him …
Something Is Always Mandatory
“But somebody outside is still running the show. Somebody is outside the walls of all our faith communities applying the tenets of his religion to absolutely everybody. But he is shrewd enough to call it secularism, leaving out the tell-tale prayers, candles, and altars, and poof! nobody notices that it is an imposed faith system …
We Could Say No
“The zeitgeist is currently insisting that we mince our words the way Liberace used to walk” (Rules, p. 222).
Not Real Progress
“The establishment narrative — a very clever perversion of the Whig view of history, which was in its turn a perversion of postmillennialism — is that we are all of us gradually emerging from the dark woods of old-timey superstitions, and that these things take time. That gradual evolutionary emergence has us leaving behind the …
The Land That Forgets God
“What makes us forget the goodness of God. The answer is . . . the goodness of God. He gives us wealth (Deut. 6:10-12), and our minds instantly start to wander. He gives us good land (Deut. 8:7-18), and we take all the credit for ourselves (Deut. 8:18), as though we arranged it all ourselves” …