‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE LYING

We’re coming upon the lying season again, otherwise known as Christmas, where parents all over the world will knowingly foist their premeditated lie about Santa Claus onto their impressionable children. They justify their lying by saying that it “makes Christmas fun for the kids.” What they are actually doing is breaking the bond of trust [...]

Heinrich Bullinger on the seventh commandment (2)

“Men are provoked to lust either by hearing or reading of dishonest ditties and bawdy ballads; or by looking on and beholding wanton dances, unseemly sights, ribald talk, and filthy examples. They therefore are by this law are reproved, which wink at or cherish, which are the bawds or bringers together of adulterous persons. Unto [...]

Heinrich Bullinger on the seventh commandment (1)

Once again, not a blanket-endorsement of Bullinger as a true Christian. “In this precept is forbidden fornication, or that kind of whorehunting, which is said to be the meddling of a single man with an unmarried woman. This kind of whoredom is thought of many either to be a very small offence, or none at [...]

Marriage as a Divine institution

The following is quite interesting. I found it while doing a google book word search. The following are excerpts from “The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer,” Volume XLIX for the year 1780. I’ll be interspersing my comments, the Lord willing. ABSTRACT OF THE REV. MR. MADAN’s DISSERTATION ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION. I [...]

John Colquhoun on 1 Corinthians 6:16

I found this quote from a google books word search: “He also represents it to them as a selfevident principle, that he who is joined in affection and criminal conversation to an harlot, is one body with her. “What! know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two [...]

Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 139

Q. 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment? I just wanted to focus on this portion of their answer: “lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;” How many synagogues of Satan holding to the Westminster Standards would agree with question #139 that “lascivious stage plays” are forbidden by the seventh commandment? Very, [...]

Caused to commit adultery

“The early Christian writers’ interpretation of the divorce texts remained the standard view of the church in the West until the sixteenth century when Erasmus suggested a different view that was adopted by Protestant theologians” (Heth & Wenham, Jesus and Divorce, p.73). In other words, the view of the so-called “early church” was that ALL [...]

John Piper: Thoughts on the New Calamity

On June 30, 2011 John Piper blogged a short article entitled, “My Eyes Shed Streams of Tears” — Thoughts on the New Calamity. Here is an excerpt from the article: My sense is that we do not realize what a calamity is happening around us. The new thing —- new for America, and new for [...]

Movies and the Christian

The following are my comments on Brian Godawa’s justification of setting a wicked thing before one’s eyes (cf. Psalm 101:3). Godawa’s book ironically has the words, “wisdom” and “discernment” in its title: “Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment.” Godawa writes: “Movies are visually dramatic stories, and in the Bible the dominant means through [...]

Reading about wickedness (Part 4)

“I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators; and not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with plunderers, or with idolaters, since then you must go out of the world. But now I wrote to you not to associate intimately; if anyone is called a [...]