Month: November 2014

Preach discomfort, not contempt.

Posted on By pukeko
The Kirk requires reformation. People and Priest, Elders, Presbyters, the moderator, the Assemblies, and the Schools of Ministry. For we have become too clever by half: too subtle. We are careful with our interpretation of the word, bringing in… Read More

On stumbling.

Posted on By pukeko
Janet Bloomfield said something interesting which I quoted yesterday. That we are all at times ferally nasty: violent. (She was talking about the walking disaster which is our family violence laws and the Duluth model). To deny that we naturally… Read More

No speech should have a trigger warning.

Posted on By pukeko
A couple of weeks ago I was asked about the hiring of a new medico, who has been as abrasive as I am politically, but bats for the other team: if I am heterosexual, conservative and religious: he is none of those things. My comment that was that it… Read More

Christ is the King.

Posted on By pukeko
One of the great issues that I struggle with is keeping accounts short and my conscience clean. If I am righteous in one area, another turns around and bites me: if I am able to control my fleshly appetites and not give quarter to gluttony and lust,… Read More

Do not despair.

Posted on By pukeko
I am starting today by quoting the author of the Jargon file, Eric Raymond, who is not a friend of the Christian. But he is accurate in his analysis of the current elite: they have become what Stalin would call useful idiots. We will get onto why the Cathedral they built will burn when we get to Malachi, but first a list of their false… Read More

Horatius was no Socail Justice Warrior.

Posted on By pukeko
Ken White (Popehat) is writing verse. This is a bad sign.
XXVII Then out spake prim Horatius, The Censor of the Gate: "To every persyn upon this earth Butthurt cometh soon or late. And how can we do better When facing fearful speech, Than shut…
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Do not accept any substitutes (with a side dose of #SJW intolerence)

Posted on By pukeko
I firmly believe that the Church will survive beyond the end of this age. Those who proclaim the death of the church are mistaken, and those who oppose it will fail. For the Church is not a work of man, but of God: it does not belong to man, but is… Read More