“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #41 “Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the …
What Room Is the Debate In?
“The modern debate over infant baptism frequently shows how far removed we are from the debates of the first century. Our debates center around a question like this: ‘Do you mean to say that you think the Gentiles in the first century baptized their infants? Where do you get that?’ In the first century the …
A Word Declared With Power
“Like a hammer it can break stony hearts, and like fire it can burn up rubbish. It illumines our path, shining like a lamp on a dark night, and like a mirror it shows us both what we are and what we should be. It is also likened to seed causing birth, and milk causing …
The Sound of My Lonely Kazoo
If it is possible for a man to put a fruit plate on his head, and it is, and also possible for him to deck his tan little body out in leather and oil, and it is, and possible for him to gyrate that little body on a float cruising down Main Street, USA, and …
Pick-Up Trucks With American Flags on Them
Most people only know half of Stephen Decatur’s famous toast — “my country, right or wrong.” But the whole thing was much more admirable. “My country, may she always be right. But my country, right or wrong.” The abbreviated version makes it sound like national interest is the only standard that a full-tilt patriot would …
Tying On Some Extra Musical Cans
I have three reminders or announcements here, all musically related. First, we continue to be grateful for the blessing that the Benefit Concert was to Logos School, and the opportunity has now come for us to tie another couple of cans onto that bumper. The CDs and DVDs of that event are now available here …
Not Where They Should Have Been
INTRODUCTION:God is sovereign and God is gracious, and this means that God takes you from where you are, and not from where you should have been. If we were standing around where we should have been, we wouldn’t need salvation. If we need salvation, we are not where we should have been. A godly response …
Not Entirely Gone
As you know, tomorrow is the 4th of July. This is the day on which we as Americans commemorate our independence from the tyranny that was being driven by the Parliament of England, but which was allowed by the king—who was constitutionally bound to protect us from all such usurpations. Because he failed in this …
A True Foretaste
When Jesus tells His disciples that many will come from east and west to sit down in the great Messianic banquet (Matt. 8:11-12), we heard echoes of the great promise found in Isaiah 25:6-8. “And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of …
Anchored and Alive
“When once we have grasped the truth that ‘God still speaks through what he has spoken’, we shall be well protected against two opposite errors. The first is the belief that, though it was heard in ancient times, God’s voice is silent today. The second is the claim that God is indeed speaking today, but …