David Arnold Carlson's Page

It is fear of falling into the hands of God that makes us so eager to get things reduced to a formula. We feel that if we can learn the “secret” of salvation or the “steps” into the blessed life, we can control our future and (though we would not admit it) control God Himself to a large degree. This saves face and preserves our self-confidence, but it also mutes the voice of power in the gospel and weakens the operations of God in the soul. Only the despairing heart can know the inward witnes… Continue

according to some in the nutosphere

Hard to believe, but Al Mohler's post on Michelle Obama (he talked postively about her decision to be a mom in the whitehouse) has made him a defender of Hitler.

Over at Between Two Worlds, (where JT linked to the Revs post),… Continue

For another reason, from a different time. Yet, it still holds

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity .... which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many y… Continue