“If you admit a false principle into the settlement of public disputes like this one—and I hate to be the one to bring you the sorrowful tidings—the false principle does not disappear when the dispute does.”
Nothing Doing
“You cannot receive what you are unwilling for God to give to someone else also.”
On Christian Nationalism
“If I am preaching the gospel to a wicked nation, calling them to repent, that is somehow setting up that sinful nation as an idol? Okay, suit yourself. Jonah’s problem was that he was making an idol out of Nineveh?”
Stepping Out Into the Void
“Sin is confusion. Sin frustrates and lies. Sin is darkness. Sin is lawlessness, and sin steps out into the void. Sin seeks out the abyss, and feels the pull and the draw of that vacuum. Sin is destructive and malicious, and on the way to Hell itself just wants to see the rest of the world burn. Sin wants to scratch and maul. Sin is a devouring beast, but in the end it devours only itself.”
Two Different Ways
“When someone is growing up in a world in which he is confronted with all sorts of unfair challenges, there is a natural and sentimental reaction that wants to soften the challenges instead of hardening the challenger.”
Shared Iniquity
“We must find common ground in Adam. We must find common ground in our shared iniquity. That is the only way out. When we recognize that we are all one great mess in Adam, then we can by the grace of God shake hands in the second Adam—and only there.”
Not a Petty Problem
“Liberal bromides cannot deal with this. Feel-good gospel coalitiony group hugs can’t deal with it. Those with an impotent message have to pretend that racial animosity is really a matter of petty bigotry, because they think they have a message that can handle petty bigotry. But in order to deal with racial animosity, racial hatred, racial hostility, Jesus had to die and rise. The good news is that He did so.”
Just Being Us
“Affirmative action—another grievous white sin, just us being our patronizing selves.”
Overpromised, Undelivered
“The problem with settling scores is that they never get settled.”
And the Cosmopolis Has No Temple
“We serve and worship a cosmopolitan Christ, and there is no cosmopolis apart from Him.”