The Ravages of Cultural Termites
We live in a world of costless gestures—costless, that is, to those who make them.
When the house crumbles to dust because of the action of the termites, it is not because they desired such a denouement: it was, rather, a natural consequence of their conduct. The destruction wrought by the adherents of Woke ideology is a good deal more deliberate. In his great book titled Russia in 1839,... Continue Reading
The Most Passionate Science Deniers Are Pro-trans “Experts” Who Profit from Carving Up Kids
From medical associations to hospitals, countless people are in too deep to admit error, even as transgender ideology collapses.
These cranks and creeps have captured the establishment, from medicine to academia to the Democratic Party. And they intend to use their power to intimidate and silence critics. They do not care that their attempts are dishonest and incoherent…But try though they might, they cannot alter biological reality. They may live by the lie of... Continue Reading
Beware the Latitude of the Pharisees
The unity in the PCA regarding worship flows not from the imposition of a liturgy or lectionary, but a shared theology regarding worship and ministry, following the same principles in our BCO.
In the days of Jesus, it was not the Lord who disturbed the peace and purity of the Old Covenant Church, but it was pharisaical practices and deceptive use of language that disturbed her. Likewise in our day, it is not those who insist on the plain meaning of language who disturb the peace and... Continue Reading
Race, Homosexuality and Historical Confusion
The current revisionist approach to the Bible and homosexuality is just as odious as the older attempts to support race-based slavery with Scripture.
What actually happened in the 19th-century American South was a bowing to social pressure to re-interpret the Bible in ways that supported race-based slavery. As a society, the South viewed itself as suffering injustice at the hands of a self-righteous North. This cultural ethos put enormous pressure on all southern Christians to conform to the... Continue Reading
More on Disestablishment (with Hodge)
The discipline regarding ethics is assigned to both church and civil government, although the means of discipline differ for each one.
I think that point can be argued in an explicitly Scriptural way. Although, I don’t suppose ‘religion’ establishmentarians necessarily disagree with that point. What I think there is disagreement about is the criterion by which we should discern the respective assignments (to church and to civil government, concerning ethics), and what those assignments are. ... Continue Reading
The Big Tent Has Collapsed
The so-called big tent in the United Methodist Church has collapsed, and it’s only going to get worse.
Bishop Berlin is infamous for his speech on the floor of the 2019 General Conference where he referred to the Traditional Plan (the legislation adopted upholding accountability for a traditionalist understanding of marriage and ordination) as a “virus” that would infect the denomination. The logical extrapolation was that people who supported the traditional plan (i.e.,... Continue Reading
Worship and the Body of Christ: A Response to Christopher A. Hutchinson
A serious view of the PCA Standards and its "Directory of Worship" show that there is a limit as to who may read Scripture in Public Worship.
A higher view of Public Worship will make us far less concerned with who can do what in a worship service. Instead, it will drive our congregation to see that their greatest joy is to join their voices in song, hear God speak through the reading and preaching of the Scriptures, and be in their... Continue Reading
An Alien Gospel: What are Christians to Make of UFO’s?
Biblically, the options are few, simple, and sobering: Either they are natural phenomena, man-made objects, cunning scams, or demon powers seeking to distract, deceive, and destroy the inhabitants of the earth.
We live in turbulent times. We have come to expect the unexpected, even the bizzare. The Internet woos us with reports of UFO sightings and alien abductions. NASA and SETI continue to probe the heavens for signs of intelligent life. Offerings from Hollywood focus mankind’s hopes on space travel, cosmic demigods, and visitations from above. But wise Christians,... Continue Reading
Hodge on Disestablishment
By enjoining duties concerning faith and worship upon the church, as an institution distinct from civil governance, the NT teaches positively that they do not belong to the magistrate, but to the church.
Hodge says “the only means which [civil governance] can employ to accomplish many [duties proposed by establishmentarian, such as suppressing heresy and preventing false worship], [namely, by coercion], are inconsistent with the example and commands of Christ [concerning faith and worship]; [and inconsistent] with the [liberty] of Christians, guaranteed in the Word of God (i.e.,... Continue Reading
A Complete Divorce of Medicine from Healthcare
Will the government force doctors to do bodily harm to transgender patients?
Often maligned as anti-body and otherworldly, it is Christians who are now most willing to fight for the integrity and goodness of the human body as something well-designed for the world it inhabits. In a world gone mad, the remaining voices of sanity offer a refreshing blast of reality—but only if we are relentless in... Continue Reading
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