With Apologies to Merle Haggard

I wish families were still wholesome and it was back when churches weren’t ghey
Back before Byrd and before the Feminist putsch won the day
Before Larry Norman and “Outlaw” when a man didn’t lisp and talked plain
Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the sane times
really forever insane?

Are we sinners supressin’ so as to be cast into hell?
With no repentance in sight — no relief from this sulfur born spell?
I wish a boy and a girl would still last a lifetime like they should
Is the best of the sane life behind us now or are the sane times really over for good?

I wish Colleges were still Christian and a church was a good place to be.
It was back before Keller decided to train to be “clergy”
Before AI sermons, when a pastor could still preach, and still would
Is the best of the sane life behind us now or are the sane times really over for good?

I wish Moscow was still Orthodox and Credenda was a good piece of mail
It was back before Doug Wilson hit the Federal Vision trail
Before R2K, and Van Drunen when the Church could own their King and still would
Is the best of the sane life behind us now or are the sane times really over for good?

Stop chasing the zeitgeist like a dog in heavy heat
Standup with the Father’s and be done with our Reformed “elite”
Let’s make a Church and a Family that’ll still last a life like they should…
The best of the sane life is still yet to come and the sane times ain’t really over for good.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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