Our baptized children are welcome to the Table, together with us. But just as there are pitfalls in excluding them, so also there are pitfalls in bringing them. We must always remember that covenantal blessings are received by faith; they are not dispensed automatically.
The Sin of Impotence
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, we confess that we as a people have become enamored …
Like Relativistic Girls
Now here’s a story that tells you everything you need to know about the moral bankruptcy of the secular West, and the impossibility of a secular multiculturalism. A true multiculturalism is something to be desired, but it is only possible in Christ. The concept of something like the United Nations is a good one — …
Caleb and Katie
Marriage is one of the great gifts of God and, as with all His gifts, it must be received by faith. Not only must it be received by faith, it must be received by faith alone. This is a truth that we may view from various angles. For example, in Ephesians 5, marriage is set …
Smelly Little Orthodoxies
Of course, on the question of the relationship of clear writing and clear thinking, George Orwell is indispensible. And so it is indeed fitting that my friend Peter Hitchens has won the Orwell prize, England’s most prestigious writing award. Go, fight, win. The judges said: “In choosing this year’s winner, we went back to Orwell. …
Spooky Almost
The other night Rand Paul was chosen to be the Republican candidate for the Senate in Kentucky, and how long did it take for charges of racism to surface? What? Thirty seconds? This was all on the basis of Paul’s opposition to certain portions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And since the lighting here …
Here’s What I’m Talking About
I have been blogging through Peter Hitchens’ The Rage Against God. That fine book is now available here in the states, and, in particular, in Idaho to be precise, it is available through Canon Press. Here you go.
A Good Place for It
Now here is a real deal. The president of Westminster Seminary in Philly, Peter Lillback, has done some wonderful work on George Washington. Peter was just on Glenn Beck, and his biography of George Washington shot to number one on Amazon. That’s a good place for it. Well, as it turns out, Peter was here …
Cutting Off the Buttons
The world around us is an unfolding story. The world around us is not a plastic diorama behind the glass in a museum. The kind of objective truth that the faithful Christian insists upon is not to be found in plastic objects that never move, even if their immobility might be a catechetical aid to …
Looking for the City
Three points to anyone who can point out the Edwardsian riff and the Deadhead allusion.