Chris' Blog

Through Natural Selection a car could turn into an airplane. Yes, it can. Why is that funny? That's science!

I'm in, baby!

If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel , insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

Or Another Example: Those who heard much of Christ and his saving blood and cross in an evangelistic meeting -- they became Christians! Then they heard very little of that wonderful message in the week-by-week pulpit ministry of their congregation. Instead they heard recipes as to how to conquer sin. Over and over and over. Or how to have a more intimate marriage. Or how to raise drug-free kids. Fill it in any way you want, it's law. See, these people often gave up on Christianity and they are angry -- really angry about it. And I don't blame them really, nor should you. The church has an obligation to preach the gospel to people on a weekly basis, and deep down they somehow knew this.

Thus, all I ask you is that as long as this Soviet economy is so proud, so flourishing, and yours is so rotten and so moribund -- stop helping it. When has a cripple ever helped along an athlete?

The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you.

Your people are now saying [...] 'Power, without any attempt at conciliation, will lead to a world conflict.' But I would say that power with continual acquiescence is not power at all.

[Referring to a criminological technology exhibit in Moscow:] The Soviet government was extremely interested in this technology and decided to purchase it. And your businessmen were quite willing to sell it. Only when a few sober voices here raised an uproar against it was this deal blocked. But you must realize how clever the KGB is. This technology didn't have to stay two or three weeks in a Soviet building under Soviet guard. Two or three nights were enough for the KGB to examine and copy it. And if today persons are being hunted down by the best and most advanced technology, for this I can also thank your Western capitalists.

In 1947, when liberal thinkers and wise men of the West, who had forgotten the meaning of the word 'liberty,' were swearing that there were no concentration camps in the Soviet Union at all, the American Federation of Labor published a map of our concentration camps, and on behalf of all the prisoners of those times, I want to thank the American workers' movement for this.

Preaching involves proclaiming the gospel and the preacher is a messenger, or herald of that gospel. Technically, it is not a sermon unless the preacher is explaining and applying the Bible.

Mysticism unquestionably is the natural result of the anti-intellectual tendency which now prevails; for mysticism is the consistent exaltation of experience at the expense of thought.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

In matters of principle, stand like a rock;
in matters of taste, swim with the current.