I was introduced to the slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On” by Joe Scarborough, who began using this as his Twitter image after Alabama lost to LSU last November. Since it was red and white, I thought it was a Bama thing. The short documentary above tells the real story, and I like it better. Very well done. (HT: Abraham Piper)
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Spurgeon on the Reproach of Believer’s Baptism
“If I thought it wrong to be a Baptist, I should give it up, and become what I believed to be right… If we could find infant baptism in the word of God, we should adopt it. It would help us out of a great difficulty, for it would take away from us that reproach which is attached to us,—that we are odd, and do not as other people do. But we have looked well through the Bible, and cannot find it, and do not believe that it is there; nor do we believe that others can find infant baptism in the Scriptures, unless they themselves first put it there.”…
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The Facts about the Abortion Mandate
American United for Life have put together a helpful ad explaining what the HHS mandate controversy is all about. (HT: Mollie Hemingway)
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Why Wasn’t Ms. Fluke Allowed To Testify?
Make no mistake. The pro-abortion, feminist left has been manipulating the narrative about the HHS mandate. That is why a piece written by Byron York over the weekend is so important. York explains why Ms. Fluke wasn’t allowed to testify in the first place. The entire affair began as an effort by partisans to spin a congressional hearing about religious liberty into a forum for the oppression of women. It worked.
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Rush Limbaugh’s On-Air Apology
Some of you may be wondering why I’ve been paying attention to this whole Rush Limbaugh dust-up. If you have been reading my blog for any amount of time, then you no doubt know why. I believe it is an urgent priority to sound the alarm about President Obama’s HHS mandate.
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Jim Hamilton on Believer’s Baptism and Close Communion
Jim Hamilton has contributed an article to The Gospel Coalition website on believer’s baptism. Jim and I are elders together at Kenwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. So the position he outlines in his essay is also my position. Here’s a brief statement of the view from Jim’s essay: Baptists believe that those who have not been immersed in water as believers to symbolize their union with Christ by faith have not been baptized. Presbyterians and other paedobaptists think they have been baptized, even if they have not been immersed in water as believers. John Bunyan agreed that baptism is the immersion of a believer in water but felt that…
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An Apology from Limbaugh, but the Damage Is Done
I am a Christian, and I am a social conservative. I oppose President Obama’s HHS mandate that requires employers to pay insurance premiums that cover chemical abortions, sterilization, and contraception. I support legislation that would accommodate citizens who do not want to be coerced by their government to pay for services that violate their consciences. In short, I find the HHS mandate to be an abhorrent assault on religious freedom. Furthermore, I believe it to be an open scandal that the national media narrative has turned the mandate into a debate about contraception rather than what it is—an assault upon the religious liberty of millions of Americans.
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Mystery Girl’s Entire Family Killed by Tornado
Most of us in Louisville heard the news yesterday about a 2-year old little girl who was found alone in the middle of a field after yesterday’s deadly tornadoes. No one knew who she was or where her family was until today, and it’s not good news. Here’s the report:
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Close Call with a Tornado
My good friend and former colleague Lawrence Smith had a close call with a tornado yesterday. He’s a reporter for our local Fox affiliate, and he and his camera man caught on video their near miss with one of the many tornados that strafed Southern Indiana on Friday. Chances are that you have already seen the raw footage (see above) because every news outlet in the country has been running it this evening. It is terrifying. Lawrence’s report on the evening news is below. I am grateful that you are okay, brother Lawrence. Great reporting!
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The Central Lie of Pornography
Doug Wilson says that the central problem with pornography is its “didactic and catechetical” nature, which tends to teach men lies about women. He writes: Porn is a sex ed curriculum put together by liars and incompetents. The central wrong lesson (one easily believed by guys, because it flatters them) is that women have men’s brains encased in women’s bodies. Everybody in the whole world is hot to go. Then, when he gets married to a normal woman, and discovers that all the free sex he thought was going to be on tap . . . isn’t on tap, at least not like what he expected, and he thinks he…