As you bring your little ones to this Table, take care in two areas. The first is to remember that you as parents don’t hold the power of the keys. This means that you should not be conducting church discipline in your family row, withholding the bread, for example, if your child was being fussy …
That Old Conveyor Belt of Time
In our prayers for reformation and revival over the years, we have asked God to move in remarkable ways, and He has been pleased to grant many aspects of our requests. But as God has done wonderful things in our midst, He has been pleased to do it over time, over the course of years. …
Highhandedness
Father, we live in a time when the worldliness of the unbelieving world is truly stark. We confess that in many places of our national life. — in our letters, on our politics, in our entertainment — our rebellion against You is highhanded in the extreme. Father, we confess that our nation is guilty of …
Debt as a Basic Human Right
I heard a commentator say the other day that we need to keep the Federal Reserve around, known hereafter as the Fed, because don’t we always need a lender of last resort? I mean, what are we going to do without a lender of last resort? Well, maybe we might not borrow trillions of dollars …
A Funny Kind of Sad
Either that, or a sad kind of funny. HT: Nathaniel Carswell.
Voting On What to Do With the Class IV Hemmorhage
While the political scrum is messy, as it always is, a narrative is starting to emerge. If we change the metaphor from rugby to movies about Transylvania, that narrative appears to be that a large number of peasants with pitchforts and torches will be assembling at the Castle of the Ruling Elite this coming November. …
And There Is None Beside
Speak gentle words and glorious comfort comes so comfort all the wretched people here your God has spoken all these words of grace speak peace and comfort to Jerusalem and call down comfort on her bended head. what shall I speak? what can I know? though comfort strains to speak. Â Her warfare done, and …
Book of the Seventh Seal
Liber I The revelation of the risen Christ—and realms on earth begin to shake— Is shown to faithful servants now, how soon the wrath must now descend. God joined His words to John the seer, and judgment, with angelic voice Can testify these truths in words, that triumph now reveals the Son. So bless the …
Song of Shulamith
And hear the song of Shulamith, A song which sings of strong desire,  The song of all songs, which is Solomon’s.  And Shulamith sings: O let him kiss me—passionately now With all the kisses his mouth contains, For his lovemaking is tender and deep, Better than wine for the yearning taste.  Your …
In Defense of Plain Speaking
“Ezekiel rails against the adulterous idolatry of the Israelites by using sexual imagery of the most graphic sort. He uses obscenity to reveal the real obscenity of doing such things in defiance of God’s law . . . Ezekiel was more concerned about the obscenity he was exposing than the obscenity he was using . …