Your self esteem angers God [Deut 9: John 2]

One of the difficulties with dealing with the lectionary and blogging on it is that you get the parts of scripture that no one teaches and no one likes. So, as a way of introduction, a story. The Son was talking about the prosecutors in the US… Read More

Hate your lusts, its subversive.

We say that we are the children of God, that we were chosen from before time, that we are the elect, members of the church invisible, and that our hope relies on him. And that we have not forgotten Christ. But if we forget his commandments, if we… Read More

Wisdom will not suffice [I Cor 1:17-32]

I was having pizza last night with those who are accounted wise: there was a person talking about a book lauch with the author, and a discussion about protesting aluminium smelters, and if World War III is starting in Russia. Or if it is the Islamic… Read More

And not be unfruitful [Titus 3].

Over the last three days I have blogged consistently from one book -- Titus -- and as a result (together with doing it fast, which means a half hour, not an hour) seen the traffic drop. This world is broken and the hypocrisy we are seeing is… Read More

A woman to avoid.

This is from a comment at Dalrock's. The comment is about the need to guard one's heart: if male from the visual and if female more from romance, for both are read for arousal, both glorify sexual desire overmuch, and Dalrock calls them porn, with… Read More

Self controlled, sober, Godly and politically incorrect lives. [Titus 2]

It would be fair to say that this is currently one of those passages that give women hives. Because it contains the phrase submissive to their own husbands. Which is politically incorrect: submission can only be in popular books and films that… Read More

Our leadership fails [Titus 1].

I am not qualified for leadership, and neither are you. Only the mature, with a track record of righteousness and good management, need apply. Those of us who are in the pews for good reason need to pray for these men (and yes, women are not needed:… Read More