Theology That Bites Back
Well, here it is, November once more. Many of you know the drill since I did this last year. But mark, you only know the drill if I do the same basic thing I did last year, which I intend to, but you didn’t necessarily know that, did you? And on top of that, some …
So one small postscript from my “No Quarter November” remains necessary. I did want to share with you all that my month-long adventure in blogging without brakes did garner me a visit from the FBI. It was not as exciting as it sounds, but it was noteworthy, and worthy of a few follow-up observations. dav …
So we gathered all the November posts up, and put them in an anthology. That anthology is now available (free) today through Saturday. Here is the link.
Introduction: So by all our reckoning, November was a success. What I thought I would do here is report back to you on a few of the relevant stats, in order to evaluate things by that metric, and then spend a few additional moments on the only metric that ultimately matters. The Crowd That Came: …
Introduction: The doctrine of eternal punishment is one that is widely known, or at least the broad outline of the doctrine is widely known. That is, if you were to ask the average person what “Hell” is, they would be able to reply that it was the purported place of punishment in the afterlife. And …
Introduction: I do indeed intend to defy the schoolmarms, but you will pardon me if I take a few minutes to set the whole thing up first. In the twelfth chapter of Acts, just a few verses apart, Luke gives us two instances of the angel of the Lord striking somebody, but with very different …
Introduction: The title comes from an old line of Ronald Reagan’s, where he said, “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.” Let that suffice for a rudimentary introduction, setting both tone and direction. So Lay the Axe at the Root: Socialism is, at root, not a math …
Due to pacing problems on my part, I was not able to get everything posted that I intended to get to this November. I have three more posts to submit on this run, and so here is how I propose we do it. Tomorrow’s will be the last post in ordinary November. This is to …
Introduction: If you can’t say something positive, then don’t say anything at all. That’s what I always say. I mean to say, the world is so full of criticism and carping . . . why can’t we just accentuate the positive? Focus on what is good. Try to emphasize the delightful. As Paul once put …
Introduction: So imagine for yourself the sweetest little boy in the church, one whose mind turns naturally to edifying themes—the kind of meditative theme inspired by reflections on a porcelain figurine of the infant Samuel at prayer. Suppose further that this boy has plump cheeks, with kind of a rosy tint or glow, and those …
