Category: Quotage

Our lives are a witness [Jer 29]

Posted on By pukeko
There are many in Christian circles in the USA who see that society has gone secular and therefore mad, and wonder how to cope. They are use to having a plurality who are of the faith, and as our judicial tyrants have chosen to elect a new people the… Read More

Expect opposition [Jer 26]

Posted on By pukeko
I am not a prophet. There are prophets in this world, but this is one gift I do not want. For I have seen the cost. Reversing it, how do you know that you are speaking the word of God and that your words are effective. You are opposed. I would not call Read More

Does even the dirt remain? [Jer 25]

Posted on By pukeko
I know this is a bit of a patchwork this morning, but the passage from Jeremiah does seem to apply to this time. Those who mock God will lose his protection. There has been a bomb blast in Russia, and whoever did this forgot one of the rules of realpolitik:… Read More

Painful and quiet [Jer 23]

Posted on By pukeko
My travel cellphone got bricked a couple of days ago. It cannot boot, and so I have been trying to communicate with Robyn by facebook messenger. I await the comments on alternatives with great interest, because when I tried to log in at Sydney airport this… Read More

April Fools Day and Jews [Rom 9]

Posted on By pukeko
I have a lot of problems with Dreher's idea of the Benedict option: a retreat into the desert to survive. The times are bleak, that is where I would agree with him. The narrative looks triumphant. But this is the time to blog, to preach: we are not… Read More

The ancient use of amenable authority.

Posted on By pukeko
The gospel is hated. No news there: it has always been hated. And the techniques that are used against the gospel are the same used by social justice warriors at any time. To Precis Social Justice Always Lie.
  1. Point and shriek The gospel…
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No damnation in Christ [Rom 8]

Posted on By pukeko
We are human. We are flawed: there is not that much good in any of us, and in all things we try to achieve we are not perfect. Even the greatest athletes do not have perfect runs: instead a great athlete keeps on going when things are not working… Read More