God has been kind enough to give us yet another Advent season, and so we should be resolved to live in it as true Christians. This means standing against the spirit of this age. This means learning what Scripture intends when it says that there is a way that seems right unto a man, and …
Two Pieces of Fudge
This is our first celebration of the Lord’s Supper in the Advent season for the year of our Lord, 2010. And note that word celebration. When we celebrate God’s grace to us here, we are learning how to celebrate His goodness in every aspect of our lives, and that includes our orientation to festivals like …
Cut to the Heart
Father, You have established Jesus Christ as both Lord and Christ, and Your Word tells us that the first generation of those who heard the gospel were cut the heart by this message, by this declaration. Father, our nation is not cut to the heart, and so we pray that You would grant a spirit …
The TSA of the Reformed World
Justin Taylor posts a helpful summary by Andrew Cowan of the N.T. Wright word-flurry at ETS this year. You can read about that here. This seems a quite reasonable summary to me, and it means that Wright is not a stalking horse for some kind of Romanist self-righteousness. But this means, in its turn, that …
Ready for Harvest
Right after we filmed this, my dad told me there was a verbal slip in the clip — the baby was not me. Not germane to the general point anyhow. Story: Ripe for Harvest, with Jim Wilson from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
Marauders of Literary Fashion
Read widely enough so that you are not provincial, but not so widely that you become some sort of deracinated cosmopolitan. Walls that are too narrow can stifle all thought and originality. Walls that are not there at all leave you defenseless. Marauders of literary fashion come galloping in, and there you are. Loyalty of …
Thanksgiving 2010
We begin by thanking God for who He is, and what He has done for us through His gospel of glory. He is the triune God, which means that He is love. Love is not an afterthought, not an add-on. From all eternity, the Father has loved the Son, and the Son the Father. The …
A Three Pound Fruitcake
Having urged aspiring writers to try their hand at many different forms of the writer’s art, I must now introduce a necessary cautionary note. Competence in one area is not something that transfers automatically to another. Examples of those who have failed to recognize this crowd instantly into our minds. The fact that Michael Jordan …
TransAtlantic Transplant
“As the Puritans came to America, certain changes were inevitable. It was not possible to build a new ‘nation’ without building a new national identity as well . . . The character exhibitied by intrepid explorers and hardy settlers is a type of character that cannot be content with mere duplication of old forms in …
And Continues With Gathering Force
“The glory of Zion is revealed with the gathering in of all the nations of the earth and the homage of even the Gentile kings. For Paul Christian preaching is nothing less than the proclamation that this age has come. The Scriptures have been fulfilled” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, …