Bully’s Blog

“He comes to make His blessings flow, far as the curse is found…”

And [Moses] said, (T) (Creation)

…..“If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God (H) (Division)

……….and do what is right in His sight, (Ascension)
……………give ear to His commandments (E) (Testing)
……….and keep all His statutes, (Maturity)

…..I will put none of the diseases on you (O) (Conquest - Blessing)
…..which I have brought on the Egyptians. (Conquest - Cursing)

For I [am] the LORD who heals you.” (S) (Glorification)

— Exodus 15:26

“QuantumGreg” posted a comment  on Sam Frost’s review of my book. He objects to the idea that, under the New Covenant, obedience to the Law will bring a decrease in disease. It’s a very reasonable objection.

“…does this not sound like Law to you? In fact, it is the Law (Deuteronomy 28). It sounds so much like the Old Covenant that it has no resemblance to the New Covenant, don’t you think?

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Douglas Wilson and Mark Driscoll whip up a feast for critical bloggers… great stuff.

Doug Wilson Interviews Mark Driscoll | Part II - Spiritual Gifts & Cessationism from Canon Wired on Vimeo.

The first half of the matrix concerns forming. It is inherently Adamic. Every man is a mobile altar of earth, carried about the wilderness on human legs. Authority is delegated to Man and then he is tested. He is offered a future by God and a future by Satan. Both futures involve rule, but one is as a shepherd and the other as a predator. The test brings Man to the crux of history, to the three-and-a-half.

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William Booth’s eldest daughter, Founder of the Salvation Army in France and Switzerland, known later in life as “the Maréchale,” said, “Go for souls, and go for the worst.” So should we. After all, Jesus does.

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“Saul is in your bloodstream, in the marrow of your bones. He makes up the very flesh and muscle of your heart. He is mixed into your soul. He inhabits the nuclei of your atoms.”

No one who reads this blog has ever suffered at the hands of self-righteous, authoritarian church leaders, I’m sure.

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Stephen Henderson posted this quote from Doug Jones’ In Defense of Wind Grasping:
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“The ancient Hebrews had Ten Commandments, and one slim volume of commentary on those commandments. Go to the nearest law library and ask to see the regulations that you, enlightened modern man, live under. They will show you shelf after shelf of big fat books, and the incoming regulations will, on a daily basis, far surpass the Mosaic code in volume, and what they overdo in quantity they will make up for in pettiness, hubris, and incoherence” (Douglas Wilson, God Is: How Christianity Explains Everything, p. 46).

Dennis Prager recently had a lot of good things to say about the Ten Commandments, highlighting the stupidity of the West in its hurry to tear them down and remove any trace of them.

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Years ago, when those “spiritual gift” tests were in vogue, a pastor told he didn’t like them because Christians were using them as an excuse to be slack in the areas where they were not “gifted.”

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“But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing…” Matthew 6:3

When it comes to doctrine, Mark Driscoll defines all issues as either closed-handed or open-handed. The non-negotiable fundamentals are held with a closed hand. In the open hand are issues that can be debated without shafting a church’s faithfulness to the apostles’ doctrine.

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