Read: Proverbs 1:1–7 Introduction A world of fools The reason that our world is filled with such moral pollution and such frightening evil is that we have turned our backs on God. The wisest man who ever lived (apart from our Lord) said that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Paul [...]
Month: May 2014
Making Babies in a Brave New World, by Scott Masson
Below is an insightful article from my friend Scott Masson (Ph.D., Durham), Associate Pastor at Westminster Chapel for College & Careers, Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University College, specializing in the areas of hermeneutics and literary theory, and a Fellow at the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Dr. Masson is a remarkably perceptive and courageous critic of contemporary [...]
God Chooses to Forget
Read: 1 Kin. 11:4-6, 34; Heb. 10:16-17 Introduction Please forgive my feigned irreverence, but how can the writer of 1 Kings say that David was wholly true to the Lord? How can the Holy Spirit (who was the primary author) say that David kept God’s statutes and commandments? David was a blatant adulterer. David [...]
Radicalism Is Killing Liberalism
In early 20th century Russia, the Marxist revolutionaries hated the liberal democrats even more than they hated the czarist empire (which was notably hateworthy). The conservative monarchy was autocratic and corrupt, but the liberal alternative, with its Western-style emphasis on free institutions, checks and balances, and procedural democracy stood squarely in the way of Lenin’s headlong [...]
The Religious Apostasy of Economic Interventionism
Introduction The prevailing economic worldview of Western elites[1] in our time is interventionist. By this I do not refer to the idea that the valid role of the state in economics is guaranteeing a level playing field (enforcing contracts, suppressing fraud, and such). This is just what the state should do, but that view is [...]
The Envy Agenda of the Inequality Warriors
The front page of the May 1, 2014 issue of the reliably radical New York Times carried an article by Annie Lowrey about the current Congressional minimum wage debate. It starts with this stark admission: Is a family with a car in the driveway, a flat- screen television, and a computer with an Internet [...]
Barack Obama Is Not the Problem
"[W]hat Obama [has been] trying to do to America would have had no chance of success, and he would not have any chance of election, if far more was not going on, if a far larger movement was not making dramatic gains in a transformational process…. "[D]espite his early life’s unusual features, his vast [...]
