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“The advancement of Sarah Palin will reveal, as few other things could, the sham called feminism.”

Monday, September 1, 2008

Douglas Wilson ponders the Palin VP choice at BLOG and MABLOG:

Far from being a great leap forward for feminism, this seems to me the destruction of feminism as we know it. Think about this for a moment. Think about this woman’s accomplishments — mother of five, stand out athlete, reforming governor, crack marksman, airplane pilot, and what does it get her? The unremitting hostility of the feminist establishment. The advancement of Sarah Palin will reveal, as few other things could, the sham called feminism. Classical feminism will be seen as nothing more than a leftist power grab designed to allow unattractive women a chance to feel important. Feminism is as hollow as a jug, and Sarah Palin will thump it so that we can all hear the sound.

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You Are What You Eat

Sunday, August 17, 2008

BREAD THAT STRENGTHENETH MAN’S HEART (John 6:35)
-By Gerhard Tersteegen

Man, earthy of the earth, an-hungered feeds
On earth’s dark poison tree—
Wild gourds, and deadly roots, and bitter weeds;
And as his food is he.

And hungry souls there are, that find and eat
God’s manna day by day—
And glad they are, their life is fresh and sweet,
For as their food are they.

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Tozer Said It

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Here are Tozer’s comments in fuller context. HT: Deborah Forteza and Todd Mitchell

In August, 1954, Christian Life magazine published an interview of A. W. Tozer under the title, “Can Fundamentalism Be Saved?” The following is an excerpt from that interview:

Question: Where is fundamentalism falling farthest short today?

Dr. Tozer: I believe current fundamentalism is falling short in its attitude toward God, its attitude toward the world and its attitude toward sin. I have been hurt and shocked continuously by the levity displayed toward God by many supposed followers of Christ. Worldliness has become epidemic in fundamental circles. Although we still condemn worldliness, we have redefined it to mean something different from what it meant a generation ago. We are so afraid of being narrow that we have opened our doors to worldliness. Of course, this leads only to spiritual tragedy for everyone.

Question: Do you feel that fundamentalism is progressing, standing still or retrogressing?

Dr. Tozer: In my opinion fundamentalism has been retrogressing rapidly during the last 20 years. That retrogression has been speeded up tremendously since World War II. It would not surprise me if there should yet come a sharp division in fundamental ranks, springing not out of doctrinal differences so much as out of methods, practices, objectives, techniques and particularly out of the difference in spiritual attitudes. Popular fundamentalism has been selling out to the worldly methods to a point where Hollywood now has more influence on fundamentalists than Jerusalem ever had. Fundamentalist youth take for their examples not the saints of old but the stars of today. The chaste dignity and sparkling purity of true Christianity has been displaced by a cheap hillbillyism wholly unworthy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Question: Are there any encouraging signs on the spiritual horizon?

Dr. Tozer: Yes, most encouraging is the increasing number of dissatisfied and dissenting believers thoroughly sick of the cheap and tawdry religion currently promoted in the name of New Testament Christianity. These believers might turn out to be the new prophets to our day. They are numerically in the minority, but their power might yet prove to be great enough to bring a change for the better among the gospel churches unless – as stated before – God is forced to desert the great mass of worldly fundamentalists and raise up something nearer to His own heart. [. . .]

Question: How would you sum up the subject of fundamentalism and its future?

Dr. Tozer: The hope for the evangelical forces in America lies with the individual believer, and especially with the individual Christian leader. If enough influential Christians will rethink this whole thing and turn to the New Testament for guidance, there may yet come a new birth of revival among us. These leaders must see that the believer’s true ambition should not be success but saintliness. They must see that they are not called to imitate the world, but to renounce it, and that publicity is no substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Dave Enlow, “Can Fundamentalism Be Saved?” Christian Life 16:4 (Aug 1954): 14-16, 74.

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Who Said It? “The chaste dignity and sparkling purity of true Christianity has been displaced by a cheap hillbillyism wholly unworthy of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Can you name the person who made this statement?

It would not surprise me if there should yet come a sharp division in fundamental ranks, springing not out of doctrinal differences so much as out of methods, practices, objectives, techniques and particularly out of the difference in spiritual attitudes. Popular fundamentalism has been selling out to the worldly methods to a point where Hollywood now has more influence on fundamentalists than Jerusalem ever had. Fundamentalist youth take for their examples not the saints of old but the stars of today.

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“Let others work to bring their gold, I only bring my sin.”

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Found
By Gerhard Tersteegen; Translated by Frances Bevan

O God, through Christ the living way,
My Father and my God,
So near, and I so far astray,
Brought nigh Thee by His Blood.

Myself, and this, and that, I sought
Behind, around, before–
And yet the nearest found I not,
Until I sought no more.

O Love, Thou deep eternal tide,
How dear are men to Thee!
The Father’s heart is opened wide
By Jesus’ Blood to me.

It was Thyself, O God, who sought,
With tender yearnings deep,
The loveless sould who sought Thee not,
The worthless, wandering sheep.

I come, yet leave myself behind,
And thus unfearing come,
For nought besides Thyself I find
In mine eternal Home.

I come–Thine open arms enfold
And welcome me within–
Let others work to bring their gold,
I only bring my sin.

Thou bringest love and gladness forth
From Thine exhaustless store,
To me, deserving but Thy wrath,
The life for evermore.

And now by magnet force led on,
I reach the inmost rest–
The nameless rapture of the son
Upon the Father’s breast.

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