Coming Untrue

“Do not awaken love before the time. If you are not going to cook the roast, then don’t preheat the oven.” — Douglas Wilson

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Anonymous Asks (405)

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“How should the church deal with gossip?” Words can be a deadly poison. The gossip presents himself in public as a friend , then stabs y...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Causes and Effects

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“When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.” When the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers eliminated the Pittsb...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

Somebody Else’s Mail (4)

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Some day soon a Jew is going to rule this world, and he’s going to do it from the throne of David, making beleaguered Jerusalem the capita...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: Bucking or Buckling?

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. I promised quite a while back now that we’d talk ...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

Choking On Our Empathy

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“I know exactly how you feel.” How many times have your heard that line, or a line like it, when you were expressing some personal sor...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Towers and Cities

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Most Hebrew proverbs take the form of stand-alone couplets. The second line amplifies, compares, contrasts with or restates the first line...
Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Weights and Measures

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“A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work .” Sometimes a proverb you’ve read dozens of times ju...
Monday, May 04, 2026

Anonymous Asks (404)

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“Is God opposed to pleasure?” The Bible paints a consistent picture of a God who both experiences pleasure and designed his creatures to...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

Livestock and Loved Ones

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There are still a few wonderful things in this increasingly weird world. A good number of them are covered in fur, and occasionally wool. ...
Saturday, May 02, 2026

Somebody Else’s Mail (3)

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Before we dive further into our sequential exposition of the Psalms, it’s probably a good time to set out what my objective is in devoting...
Friday, May 01, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: Empty-Somethings

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The Telegraph reports an Italian court has ordere...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Who’s Running This Place Anyway?

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Churches today need leaders — badly. And biblically speaking, that means they need elders. “Elder” doesn’t necessarily mean ancient but...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Rod Revisited

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The writer of a recent article in Canada’s National Post is troubled by a report that about 20% of parents aged 18 through 42 still spank...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The End of All Argument

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Is Jesus Christ a created being? Orthodoxy says no, the heretics say yes, and the argument has been going on for centuries. Even today, Je...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Anonymous Asks (403)

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“How should a Christian respond to unreciprocated romantic interest?” Christians are called to love one another, but it’s a very specifi...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

What Constitutes Biblical Evidence?

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“The Bible gives clear, direct guidance on many topics of morality, but not on birth control. Thus, any inferences from the Bible are opin...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Somebody Else’s Mail (2)

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I have a second introductory post coming next week, but I’m eager to get going, so let’s just jump in. The author of Psalm 1 is unknown....
Friday, April 24, 2026

Too Hot to Handle: To Debate or Not to Debate

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Kristin Howerton thinks evangelicals need to rethin...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Inbox: Have I Got a Deal for You

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Alison writes: “Something [has] been bothering me for a really long time. Everybody says, ‘Read the book of Job for comfort, blah blah ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Claims of Christ and the Issue of the Week

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A single line from Doug Wilson’s most recent fake letter to a Jewish man grappling with the Christian faith leapt off the screen at me thi...
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