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The Jello Just Won’t Stay Put

The Jello Just Won’t Stay Put

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With the recent mass shooting out in California, we are certain to have a whole new flurry of discussions on gun control, bullying, anti-depressants, and the role of government. Brace yourselves, it’ll be a fun ride on the moral relativism express. Sadly, these families are in the midst of grieving, and yet because of the high profile nature of this crime it will become a topic that is discussed publicly for quite a while. I, however,  would like to take this occasion and ask some questions out loud . . . and answer them the way our murky minded morality likely would:

“Why are these murders wrong?”OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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The Threshing Floor

The Threshing Floor

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It is becoming more apparent to me that the Enemy’s battle-formation of postmodernism is a frontal assault on the Holy Spirit. Postmodernism is a mushy soup of follow your heart, go with the flow, do what feels right, assimilate contradictory ideas into one incoherent worldview, anything goes, and above all tolerate everyone and everything and any expression of individuality. The rule of the day is tolerance. The hypocrisy of such an ideal falls apart when someone (anyone) is in any way, shape or form intolerant. Because tolerance has to tolerate intolerance, and thereby lets the cat out of the bag: there has to be some kind of objective standard whereby we determine what is right, good, and worthy of acceptance and what is wrong, bad and entirely unacceptable. [Read more…] about The Threshing Floor

Leaven in the Lump

Leaven in the Lump

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We live in a viral age. For good or ill . . . and I’d say the majority of these viruses bode for ill. I have seen two articles twittering their way across the book of faces and receiving a bunch of “likes;” that not so ancient and ever so irritating, serpentine degradation of public discourse. As an aside, I do not like “likes.” In saying this, I know that people will “like” this blog, thus, as I sigh and accept the inevitable, I return to the topic at hand with hopes that this discussion will help push us to a greater degree of discernment as to what we “like” as Christians. [Read more…] about Leaven in the Lump

And Still the Light Grew: A Tribute to C.S. Lewis

And Still the Light Grew: A Tribute to C.S. Lewis

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Fifty years ago today, Jack Lewis entered the High Countries (as he called it). This man’s testimony (going from Atheism to And still the light grewChristianity), though marked by imperfections, is also marked by incredible richness and above all was a voice of sanity in an era of madness. He had a prophetic edge to much of what He said, and now we are living in an age of thought which he foresaw, and warned us to flee. The postmodernist mantra of the subjectivity of truth, the diminishment of reason for the sake of “communalism,” and the misdirected use of joy and desire were all things Lewis combatted, decades before they became the prevailing “winds of doctrine (Eph. 4:14).”

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A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

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Limp-wrists are all the rage. Our modern Christian culture, with its skinny-jean clad worship leaders, hawaiian-shirted Pastors, and Great Mountaincigar-smoking small groups has become proficient in the art of ineffectuality. We have bought the bait that tolerance and acceptance is the most important expression of Christian love. We love by accommodating, cow-towing, and placating the culture. I remember hearing about a church that sent out surveys to their community asking: “What sort of church do you want?” Well, what’ll you know, they wanted a church that gets out in time for the game, allows dad to export his fatherly responsibility to a 28 year old youth pastor with a cool haircut, sermons that include clips from a movie about two dumb guys (one dumber than the other), and a great worship band–pyrotechnics and all.  [Read more…] about A Great Mountain, and a Crumbling Statue

Beware Erasmus

Beware Erasmus

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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (27 October 1466 – 12 July 1536)

Beware Erasmus.
In a recent foray through David Daniell’s meticulous biography of William Tyndale, I have been stirred more than once by this simple warning: “Beware Erasmus.” It has become a slogan I have begun to frequently whisper to my soul, (for reasons that shall soon become clear) to provoke me to stay on guard against the enchanting fumes of pride. We recognize the perceived deadness of the previous generation and we refuse to follow in that path; we, instead, want a robust and living spirituality. I’ve seen my peers pursue this healthy desire in two very unhealthy ways.
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