Why Is Love So Stupid?
During my first premarital counseling I awoke to the stupidity of love
What should we do when a loved one is overwhelmed by that chemical-combustion-mistaken-as-love? Here is one answer: I don’t know. I have yet to find anything that neutralizes it. Tackle the victims, tie them down, bring in a hundred witnesses to scream at and berate them, send them to boarding school—these are all fine ideas.... Continue Reading
When to Leave Your Denomination?
Should you leave your church if it’s forsaking biblical orthodoxy?
A shell congregation of the Falls Church that disagreed with the over 90 percent vote to leave the Episcopal Church has continued to meet and now possesses the large property. Reportedly fewer than 100 attend its services in a facility that once accommodated thousands. One of its recent preachers was a radical former missionary forced... Continue Reading
A Mainline Collapse: The Twilight of Liberal Christianity?
Is stewardship of the earth and having children incompatible?
This transformation in the Episcopal Church was done to make the church “relevant and vital.” Instead, people stopped going because, as Douthat points out, there was nothing these churches offered that they “[couldn’t] already get from a purely secular liberalism.” In 2006, the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop, Katherine Jefferts Schori, told the New York Times... Continue Reading
Huckabee launches ‘Chick-fil-A Day’ for Aug. 1
A Stand for traditional marriage leads to a boycott and support
The goal is simple: Let’s affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick-Fil-A on Wednesday, August 1. Former presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he is “incensed” at the way... Continue Reading
Congratulations to our 1,000th Facebook Friend
And to the Facebook Friend who shared our site with him
One of the side effects of this contest was to learn some details about who is reading The Aquila Report. Quite honestly, we were pleasantly surprised. Neither one is a Minister. Neither one is a Presbyterian.
An alternative to ‘in thesi’ declarations
Better, I continue to think, an amended confession than an impotent declaration.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, through her Testimony, has in effect long been amending the Westminster Standards, so I don't think my proposal as controversial as some might conclude.
Churches, Pacifism, and Gun Control
Pacifism is increasingly popular among many evangelical elites, especially in academia.
All government is premised on force. Every government everywhere, at all times, if it has any power, will dispatch armed individuals to apprehend any persons who violate its laws and, ultimately, detain them in places surrounded by armed individuals empowered by lethal force.
Sinners in a Fishbowl
PKs aren’t different from anyone else. We are just sinners under the microscope.
It isn’t a different gospel that is needed. It’s not a different Jesus. It’s just a real gospel and a real Jesus. See, when every day of our lives is doused in a deluge of Jesus/gospel/Bible talk from our earliest memories, it is so easy for it all to become rote or rubbish to us. Satan’s greatest weapon against church kids is familiarity, and the contempt it breeds. So we need our families, biological and Christological, to show us the gospel.
Farewell to the Blogosphere
All other good things we do must center in the proclamation of Jesus to lost sinners.
Editor's Note: Word spread during the day on Tuesday that Wes White was closing down his blog. Here is his final post.
Chariots of Fire: Eric Liddell, a hero of the faith, still inspires today
Thirty years after its first release, Chariots of Fire remains an inspiring film
But lest we be guilty of hypocrisy ourselves, Eric Liddell’s example is one that Christians also should think deeply on. The willingness to sacrifice is a dimension that has largely disappeared from Christian discipleship today. The Gospel is proclaimed more in terms of the personal fulfilment it brings, the emotional and material benefits that accrue, rather than a dying to self and a wholehearted and sacrificial commitment to Christ.