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“Let’s start calling it servant lordship instead." — Doug Wilson

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Gathering the Weeds

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“No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest.” In a post entitled “...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Anonymous Asks (238)

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“Is asking ‘What would Jesus do?’ a good way to make decisions?” An opinion columnist for The LA Times writes that Jesus would have got...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Sympathy and Solipsism

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Much of scripture is historical. No surprise there. We learn that in Sunday School. History is just the words and doings of men recorded...
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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Mining the Minors: Nahum (3)

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It has been observed that verses 2-8 of Nahum’s first chapter are a poem or hymn about the wrath of the Almighty that appears to have been...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: Virtual Christianity

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. James Smith’s Los Angeles Review of Books has a p...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Book Reviews Page

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When we began posting here almost ten years ago, I never planned on doing book reviews. Somehow or other it happened anyway: Andy Stanley ...

The Unbearable Heaviness of Individuality

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“Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place …” “Then M...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Having Their Cake

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Many modern Christians want to have their cake and eat it too, believing they can somehow reconcile pseudo-science with the miraculous eve...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

A Distinction Too Fine

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Some writers distinguish between the phrases “kingdom of heaven” and “kingdom of God” in the New Testament, asserting they are intended to...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Anonymous Asks (237)

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“What did Solomon mean when he wrote that money answers everything?” It has been said that every virtue carried to extremes becomes a vi...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Good Seed and the Outer Darkness

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Those of us who love to study the word of God often spend a pleasant hour or two comparing scripture with scripture in meditation, and by ...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Mining the Minors: Nahum (2)

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Nahum begins his oracle, appropriately enough, by identifying its divine source and describing him for his readers. Who is the Lord, you m...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: Collect Yourself

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Tom: How much Jordan Peterson have you been watch...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Acting Christian

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“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.” Most of the time I enjoy writing these posts. Sometimes, not so much. ...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Reflections on the Way to the Crematorium

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So I’m on my way to the crematorium the other day … It occurs to me that line probably requires a bit of backstory. It wasn’t a people c...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Superstition, Unbelief and Pattern Recognition

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“On that night the king could not sleep .” It has been pointed out that Esther is unique among the books of the Bible in that it contain...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Anonymous Asks (236)

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“How should Christians respond to someone who leaves the faith?” The New Testament references several who turned away or would turn away...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Theological Misreadings

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In a move that was all-but-inevitable from the moment they started ordaining women, Church of England bishops have announced they are laun...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Mining the Minors: Nahum (1)

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Nahum is the seventh Minor Prophet in our modern Bibles and the fifth in the chronological order we are following in these studies, as wel...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: This Little Christian Went to Market

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Immanuel Can: Some years ago I had the movie The ...
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