Roe will Go?

Here's some helpful reading, and some stuff that needs your feedback.

Dec 01, 2021

2/ Roe will Go

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is being argued before the Supreme Court today. Don’t forget to beg the Lord for justice, especially for the unborn.

Here is hopeful commentary from Robert George: Roe Will Go.

Psalms 10 and 139 are wonderful for our prayers today.

3/ There are No Ordinary People

C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

4/ Back on Twitter

Ugh.

But, Christianity is an argument, and Twitter seems to be where the argument is happening, so I plugged my nose.

If you are still swimming in that swamp, follow me at @bwolfmueller.

If there are helpful voices for me to follow, please connect me.

5/ Luther on the hidden God

From Luther’s commentary on Genesis 25:21, discussing the hidden God.

Then indeed God had hidden Himself, the God of Israel, the Savior, as is stated in Is. 45:15. Thus today heaven and earth, the pope and the Turk, and all things are against us; and God, in whom we believe, is altogether nothing. But the prince of the world and its god is god. On this account many among the Christians who have not been properly instructed and do not have the Word desert from us to the Turk. They see that everything is flourishing there, and from this they conclude that God gives them life but slays us and delivers us into the hands of the cruel enemy.
But we have nothing from God except the pure Word, namely, that the Lord Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father and is the Judge of the living and the dead, and that through Him we are kings and priests (Rev. 1:6). But where can this be discerned? Not in the indicative mood, but in the imperative and in the optative. Why He hides Himself in this way we shall see on that Day, when all enemies will have been put under His feet (1 Cor. 15:25). Meanwhile we should believe and hope. For if one could see it now before one’s eyes, there would be no need of faith. But no matter how false our faith seems and how vain our hope, I know in spite of this that we shall tread the Turk under our feet and that those who now lie buried and whose blood he shed will tread him underfoot and thrust him down into hell. All the rest of the martyrs who were burnt by the emperor, the pope, the French, and others will do the same thing. For it is the wisdom of the saints to believe in the truth in opposition to the lie, in the hidden truth in opposition to the manifest truth, and in hope in opposition to hope. (Luther on Genesis 25:21, Luther’s Works 4:356-357)

We are studying the Life of Jacob with Martin Luther in the Worldwide Bible Class. (Old classes here | Info to join live on Wednesday mornings here.)

Today’s class:

6/ 2022: A Year of Peace

We’ve published another calendar. Find it here.

Find the calendar here.

7/ Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking

HT to Steve for recommending this article.

Often, indeed, what we encounter is less a hermeneutics of suspicion than a hermeneutics of contempt. The contempt expresses itself partly in a repudiation of the customary, the conventional, the habitual, partly in the cult of innovation and originality. Think, for example, of John Stuart Mill’s famous plea on behalf of moral, social, and intellectual “experiments in living.” Part of what makes that phrase so obnoxious is Mill’s effort to dignify his project of moral revolution with the prestige of science—as if, for example, his creepy relationship with the married Harriet Taylor was somehow equivalent to Michael Faraday’s experiments with electromagnetism. You see the same thing at work today when young hedonists in search of oblivion explain that they are “experimenting” with drugs or “their sexuality.”

I especially thought the insights on the “They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus” argument were helpful.

Find the article here.

8/ Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law

I’m working through this article from Arthur Allen Leff, which is arguing (I think) that there is no coherent human law without the existence of God. Leff doesn’t believe in God, so he concludes: “…it looks as if we are all we have.”

Find the article here, and let me know what you think.

9/ Christian Naivete

A thought:

There is a surprising naivete to the Christian worldview, and innocence that seems, at first glance, to contradict our confession of original sin. The quilting grandmother and the ancient Christian martyrs are more closely related than one might guess. Hope is an overcoming light and heat.

10/ Congratulations, and a Note

Congratulations to Jason, this month’s free book give-away.

Also, I know it’s a bit of annoying to read from an image.

This is an intentional decision, and fits into a large strategy. I’m trying to move our attention from the screen to the page. A picture of the page points to the real thing, the thing that you can touch and tear and give to your neighbor. Thanks for your understanding.

at Last/ Lord’s Blessings

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Lord's Blessings,
Pastor Wolfmueller

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