Musings of a Snickerdoodle

"Don't confuse the gospel with the effects of the Gospel." writes Trevin Wax. Elsewhere he notes that , "…Christianity is not a scheme of morality, nor a plan for social and political change, and organizations which propose improvements along such lines are only 'tinkering with the problems.   We may be made better men, but before we can face God we must be new men."   So many churches today don't believe that the Gospel, as given in God's Word, is right for today. They think that it needs to be updated to fit our culture.   Wax does a good job of analyzing the various counterfeit gospels of our day: the Therapeutic Gospel, the Activist Gospel, the Churchless Gospel…etc. he shows how many of these take one fact of the Gospel and preach it, mostly disembodied from the other essential truths that make up the Gospel.   These people are, 'missing the mark' of the complete Gospel', which description, ironically, is one of the definitions ...

This book was a very educational read for me, helping me understand more about our government as a representative republic.   In this book, Mr. Arnn explains why the Founders constituted the Constitution the way the way they did.  Apparently there are people who think that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are contradictory.  One declares freedom while the other institutes rules/law.  Larry Arnn demonstrates that this is not the case, that the documents are actually complementary.  The Declaration is not pro-anarchy, it is actually pro-government; it is not anti-government but pro-good government.  America's founding fathers broke off from England, not because they desired to be free of government, but  because they believed that they were not being governed rightly by England.  The Declaration declares how the government in England abused it's authority.   Rebuking the bad government of England it declares ...

Why did Valkyrie and so many other plans to assassinate Hitler fail?  Was it because Satan had the upper hand over God? Was God powerless to stop it?  "When Mr. Clinton was elected president in 1992, I heard a Christian preacher say, 'God had nothing to do with the election of this president, the people made the choice!'  I found that statement incredible for several reasons.  First, I wonder what that teacher would have said if a president had been elected who was distinctively Christian and consciously committed to ruling with biblical principles.  Would he have said that that president had been raised up by God for this hour of American history?  To put it differently: Is God only involved when righteous leaders are installed and uninvolved when a leader is something less than distinctively Christian, or even evil?"  Of course, the answer to this is that God is always involved, otherwise He is not God.  This is something I like about Lutz...