Moreover, the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed -Deuteronomy 7:20Presumed to be static portions in the painted background of our daily melodrama are innumerable servants the sovereign God has at His disposal to dissolve empires, route armies, and disrupt the tidy world of man. … Continue reading Running Thoughts #20
Author: Tim Constant
Communi-Capsules
Covid introduced the American church to a handful of impediments to worship. Singing through facemasks, social distancing in the pews, and giving your deacon a spiritual elbow bump, were all inane, and, as it turns out, wholly ineffectual penetrations of the State sphere into the Church. Perhaps the most cringe-worthy addition was the introduction of … Continue reading Communi-Capsules
Running Thoughts #19
Christians who huff and puff whenever theonomy is mentioned must explain what other system of righteousness they would like to enforce, and what other source of justice they will be referencing other than God's.
Technologos
Pulled this one from the vault. Wrote this for our church blog about a decade ago. It aged fairly well Introduction My opinions are like Jehovah's Witness pamphlets: free and unsolicited. So when I was asked to write my opinions on various forms of technology (which I wasn’t), I wholeheartedly agreed. As I was trying … Continue reading Technologos
Running Thoughts #18
Salvation : Gospel :: Wedding : Marriage
Running Thoughts #17
Attention is a trade off. We cannot simultaneously look into a microscope and a telescope. One cannot dissect the frog and observe it in its ecological context. Meta-analysis glissades over the storylines of myriad individual datapoints. Micro, macro, and unaided observation each are good and necessary, but we can't forget the use of one means … Continue reading Running Thoughts #17
Running Thoughts #16
Free gospel grace leads to free men; freed men lead to prosperity; prosperity if unattended, leads to ingratitude, decadence, decline, and the budding of a pure remnant off the cancerous rot. This is the pattern noted by those suspicious of the postmillennial belief - Christians will always reach a critical mass where the prosperity of … Continue reading Running Thoughts #16
A Study In Scarlett: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 6
Symbol Primer A coworker of mine had a tattoo of a snake on her right arm, the tail starting at the shoulder, its body slithering down her arm to a diamond head at the wrist, a forked tongue extending to the thumb. It was clean, proportioned, and expensive enough that she chose not to disclose … Continue reading A Study In Scarlett: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 6
A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 5
Blueprints Bound up in this question of the sacramental cup is the nature of the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual realm. Does the wine "do something" for us spiritually that grape juice does not, other than allow a more snuggly biblical literalism? Is there any meaningful thread that ties the spiritual and … Continue reading A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 5
CommYOUnion
I was digging through that old slim drawer in the sewing cabinet that is my Google Docs and found this little article I wrote for our church blog years ago. It is on brand for the Sacrament series I have been writing. I must have written it just after I discovered the glories of the … Continue reading CommYOUnion
Thought Butter 