Very Much Like Him
"For about three centuries, we have been taught (by the devil, or someone very much like him) that grime is more 'authentic' than being clean, being disheveled is more real than being put together, and...
View ArticleTattoos Say So Much
"This part of town had their crazy pastors too, but they mainly operated out of storefronts with names like Knee Deep in Glory Gospel Center. And some of their pastors had tattoos, but these were...
View ArticleChasing the Laser Pointer Dot
If I may, I would like to urge all Christians interested in the future of education reform to continue their hot pursuit of said reform, but not to do so like a kitten pursuing a laser pointer dot on...
View ArticlePartaking to Partake
Our corporate participation in this meal, together with all other saints in the world, is a corporate participation in one person, the Lord Jesus. This means, obviously, that He is no ordinary person,...
View ArticleHowever Do We Manage That?
Self-deception is hard to understand, and even harder to see. Think for a moment about what self-deception involves. You have to be cunning enough to tell yourself a lie, and you have to gullible...
View ArticleHow Envy Devours
IntroductionThis chapter marks the beginning of civil war in Israel. There had been strains and tensions before, but now it breaks out into open hostilities. As we will see, there are noble men on both...
View ArticleDeracinated Evangelicals
My latest for Real Clear Religion is now up, which you can check out here. And when going there in the future (without linkage), you will want dot org, not dot com.
View ArticleThe Right Kind of Temperance
"The preacher should by all means avoid ultraism . . . Not everything should be avoided which is often grossly abused . . . The world is full of great and dreadful evils, which may well excite both...
View ArticleSanctified Ambition
"Jesus does not say that we are to rip out the chief seats in the synagogues, but rather how to relate to them. He does not teach us to get rid of seats of honor at banquets -- He teaches us how to get...
View ArticleNot Too Gooby
"Stacey was trying to figure out a way to communicate something along the lines of 'my hero' without sounding too gooby. She like Keith about as much as Keith liked Mindy, and knew she was a little...
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