INTRODUCTION:God has made it plain in many diverse ways that Saul has lost it, and what Saul has lost, David has been given. But all Saul does is double down in his disobedience. The irony is that, even after the Spirit had departed from him, and come upon David, the Spirit was still there at …
Repentance and Consternation
True repentance is frequently expressed in a state of consternation. Repentance is not just a state of turning away from sin. It is what happens when someone is given a glimpse of that that sin is actually like. Repentance is not technically turning away from something that was technically wrong. Repentance is actually turning away, …
Sunday by Sunday
The world as it will be unfolds slowly. The leaven works through the loaf slowly and quietly. The mustard seed grows silently and takes its sweet time. The world to come is in fact coming, but not on our timetable. There are two kinds of unbelief. One doesn’t want the new world to come at …
The Old Paths in War
Apostate cultures, or cultures in the process of falling away, need to be treated differently from pagan cultures. A baptized backslider needs to be called back to what his baptism means — how can we who died to sin still live in it? In an analogous way, in our efforts to speak the gospel to …
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
Here’s something you all can help us spread the word on. I spent today in the gallery of the CREC Council meeting in Minneapolis. Yesterday all seven presbyteries met, and today two delegates from each presbytery formed our tri-annual seating of Council. One of the more significant items up for a decision today was a …
Little Lord Byron in Skinny Jeans
Trevin Wax has a good interview with Nate here. In the course of that interview Nate says something about a recent “prediction” I made about a potential explosion in the world of Reformed aesthetics. “Think of it more as a gameplan. He’s checking off his fight-these-strategic-battles list. He’s not a guy in the stands making …
A Strong Smell of Sulphur About It
The apostle Paul does not talk about Hell by name, but we should not draw the wrong conclusions from that. The concept is certainly there. For example, in one place he talks about those who subscribe to magazines calle Me, Self, or Gimme (Rom. 2:8, ESV). They are self-absorbed and give themselves over to unrighteousness. …
Trying to Talk About This Without Throwing Chum in the Water
Doug Wilson Interviews Mark Driscoll | Part II – Spiritual Gifts & Cessationism from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
Encouragement in God
INTRODUCTION:Harry Truman once said that if you want to find loyalty in Washington, then you should get a dog. In this chapter we see the reasons for thinking this way—the thin loyalty of Keilah and Ziph. But there is also an exception to this way of the world, and it is the staggering loyalty, the …
Pulpit Freedom Sunday
For many churches, this Sunday is “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” Because many churches are 501c3 tax exempt entities, and because the IRS has stiff restrictions on what such entities may do in the realm of partisan politics, many churches have drawn back from making their prophetic voice heard when it comes to the pressing moral issues …