"Because of this, take up the complete armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand." Ephesians 6:13 Evil assaults Christians seasonally, crashing against the phalanx of shields interlinked. We are to withstand it, give it no purchase, not one square inch. … Continue reading Running Thoughts #22
Author: Tim Constant
Running Thoughts #21
Definitions, among other benefits, let you know what you can do with a thing and what you cannot - they provide parameters for proper use and function. When a society cannot define a woman, then it cannot define a man, then it cannot define what is a human. If you happen to be a human, … Continue reading Running Thoughts #21
Running Thoughts #20
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
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
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