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The Kindness of God in the Face of Death

“He is like one who has set sail upon a stormy and tempestuous sea, and before he has been carried out into the deeps, gets in safely to the secure haven”

What We Need

“It is imperative… to acknowledge and remember… that when we gather together as companies of God’s people, it is not to enjoy preaching eloquence or to criticize the lack thereof, but it’s to hear and to heed the Word of God. We come to be exhorted, not to be entertained. And if churches or theirContinue reading “What We Need”

Too Gentle and Too Lowly?

A response to Jon Harris’ “Gentle and Lowly: A Review” This is not meant to be a defense of Dane Ortlund, or any of those who endorsed his book. Nor is this an attack on Jon Harris. This is a defense of Ortlunds book, and more crucially, it is a defense of the true theologyContinue reading “Too Gentle and Too Lowly?”

Videos Against Critical Theology Theory

I don’t have a lot of time or enough mental space to think through and write about all I would like to. Responding to the Critical Theologists is at the top of that list, along with issues of submission to government, and Biblical economics. And that’s why I’ve been collecting currently accessible videos and collatingContinue reading “Videos Against Critical Theology Theory”

Woke Definitions

While Wokeness, Critical Theory, and Social Justice Theory are by no means new world views and ideologies, many struggle with understanding exactly what they are and what the words used in them mean. This is largely because these ideologies are a foundation up, top down, inside out revolution of thought. They demand an entirely newContinue reading “Woke Definitions”

Revival or Reformation?

A short unfolding of the Book of James… I think James is pointing out what is and must be at the bottom of all the visible bad behavior: filthiness and rampant wickedness (1:21). Bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in their hearts (3:14). Why does James take so much time pointing this out? And why would this not be apparent and clear? Because they are being “false to the truth” (3:14). “Where there is disorder and every vile practice,” says James, there will be underneath that “jealousy and selfish ambition” (3:16). They aren’t living life in the light of “the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (1:17). They are living in another wisdom, not from God (which would be good and perfect 1:17), an “earthly, unspiritual, and demonic” wisdom.

True Friendship in Real Hardship

John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative Love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders whatContinue reading “True Friendship in Real Hardship”

In This Present Tyranny

In the course of a rising Tyranny, whether in a government or in an organization, there comes a time when freemen must see in their wisdom the ends to which those who would be their Tyrants are using the current course of events as a means of achieving such Tyranny. There comes a time, if Tyranny is to be stopped before it comes to full power, where those who would be the guards to their children’s future security must realize that and understand how the events in their day are being used to further that movement towards Tyranny and away from a hope in God and reliance on Him. There comes a time when the watchmen in their courage must stand and cry that the enemies are already in the gates. Otherwise, Tyranny has already won. For freedom cannot survive without her sight, without her wisdom, without her courage, without her virtue; and without these, what is freedom but a dark cage from which there is no escape? There comes a day in the course of human events when one people declare the causes which impel them to separation from those who would be their Tyrants. What time will that be, America, unless you weigh carefully your present situation today?

A Review of “Global Humility”

I think this book sees the Bible primarily through a man-centric perspective, and does so under an attempt to be humble. This effort involves not having an arrogant ethnocentrism, or judgmental attitude (page 10). The core idea in the book is that reading the Bible (i.e. proper hermeneutics) involves putting on different “cultural lenses” toContinue reading “A Review of “Global Humility””

Atonement and the Satisfaction of God

Outline: When I started to write this, I had just finished a college quiz (and did fairly well at it if I do say so myself), and needed to do a test before I head out to my eight-hour work shift. Yes, the Atonement is something that a college going fast-food worker thinks about inContinue reading “Atonement and the Satisfaction of God”